> edit - It's also really hard as a designer + developer + would-be researcher in the making to find a good computer. I woukld agree on desginer. Absolutely n

> edit - It's also really hard as a designer + developer + would-be researcher in the making to find a good computer. I woukld agree on desginer. Absolutely not on developer or researcher. Actually MacOS is for the reasons you mentioned incredibly developer-unfriendly (unless you target is of course the iOS ecosystem). And for research there is no better platform but Linux. Unless you are in clicky-colorful frontend applications where I would doubt you are doing serious research.