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I spent the last few years using Arch for development. Meh. There’s a lot of over zealous Linux people that defend it rigorously, and while generally things do

I spent the last few years using Arch for development. Meh. There’s a lot of over zealous Linux people that defend it rigorously, and while generally things do work pretty well, the devil is always in the details. I just switched back to macOS, downgrading to an old dual core 2015 mbp which runs overall better than my T480 with 32GB of RAM. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to love it, and I believe in the project, but I’ll check back when there’s a DE that can actually scale its GUI properly and when Bluetooth and Spotify don't make my T480 quadcore processor lag.

Toutouxc 6y ago
My programming-related usage was four years on Mac, then two years on Linux (a quad core Dell) and now I'm back on a M1 Mac. I believe that there are people who have their Linux boxes configured just right with carefully crafted dotfiles and custom tiling DEs and whatnot, but it's usually people who do coding or writing or some other single thing. You don't hear often about people who would use their 12-month-uptime-no-crashes-whatsoever machines for coding for a living, a bit of gaming on the side, some hobby-level photography stuff, maybe a bit of music production, and all of that without a single issue.