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> Apple, for all their flaws, are head and shoulders above the competition at the moment. ...if you can stand using macOS and if you optimize for working in pl

> Apple, for all their flaws, are head and shoulders above the competition at the moment. ...if you can stand using macOS and if you optimize for working in planes, trains, hotels or in meetings. If you only need 16gb of RAM and one external display. If you like touchpads and if all of your preferred hardware works with it. If all of that, then sure. I like hardware and software that just works without getting in my way and let's me do what I want and Apple has never been able to provide that. Heck, you can't even change the mouse pointer color in macOS without buying a third party app (which might stop working next year). No thanks- give me a PC tower, 2-3 displays, an ergonomic keyboard and a 5 button vertical mouse in a quiet room. I'll have Manjaro/XFCE setup and running circles around an M1 with real containers while you're waiting on virtualized containers or investigating which libs won't compile because they're not ready for the M1 yet. When I came back into the office from the pandemic they told me that some guy with an M1 started working with one of our teams and he got laughed out of the office because nothing worked on it. That's head and shoulders?

antihero 5y ago
You'd laugh at a developer for having issues with their machine? Sounds like an filled with emotionally immature people to be honest. > optimize for working in planes, trains, hotels or in meetings Yes, one of the criteria here is indeed portability. > you can't even change the mouse pointer color in macOS without buying a third party app I have not in 20 years of software development felt the need to change the cursor colour. Is this an accessibility thing? > 2-3 displays, an ergonomic keyboard and a 5 button vertical mouse in a quiet room Other than the extra screens, nothing is stopping you use your own keyboard/mouse with the laptop and choosing your own room. > I'll have Manjaro/XFCE setup and running circles around an M1 with real containers while you're waiting on virtualized containers or investigating which libs won't compile because they're not ready for the M1 yet. There are indeed some teething issues with M1, but those will be solved eventually. Containers being virtualised hasn't caused too many issues. I fail to understand, if you're using arch, why you'd use XFCE over a tiling wm like i3.

antihero 5y ago

You'd laugh at a developer for having issues with their machine? Sounds like an filled with emotionally immature people to be honest. > optimize for working in planes, trains, hotels or in meetings Yes, one of the criteria here is indeed portability. > you can't even change the mouse pointer color in macOS without buying a third party app I have not in 20 years of software development felt the need to change the cursor colour. Is this an accessibility thing? > 2-3 displays, an ergonomic keyboard and a 5 button vertical mouse in a quiet room Other than the extra screens, nothing is stopping you use your own keyboard/mouse with the laptop and choosing your own room. > I'll have Manjaro/XFCE setup and running circles around an M1 with real containers while you're waiting on virtualized containers or investigating which libs won't compile because they're not ready for the M1 yet. There are indeed some teething issues with M1, but those will be solved eventually. Containers being virtualised hasn't caused too many issues. I fail to understand, if you're using arch, why you'd use XFCE over a tiling wm like i3.