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IME device/os choice is usually more around IT security than weird cultish things. I.e. my current job, we only use iOS/mac because then IT only has to worry ab
by plainnoodles 5y ago
IME device/os choice is usually more around IT security than weird cultish things. I.e. my current job, we only use iOS/mac because then IT only has to worry about keeping a fleet of iOS/macs patched and secured. Instead of Windows and a million different linux distros.
I also personally think they picked osx because devs using windows probably won't care (since windows is already not great for dev), mac people are happy, and linux people are just glad they're not using windows.
(I'm personally in the "linux person relieved to not be using windows" camp).
- dexterhaslem 5y agowindows is already not great for dev? I'll bite, what were you doing, ios apps? lol
- phist_mcgee 5y agoGetting a functional semi-ok, posix sorta vaguely compliant terminal is not a fun or easy task in windows. The web runs linux, and unfortunately, windows doesn't really want to do linux (WSL is a tiny concession)
- mickael-kerjean 5y agoWSL doesn't cut it, it's at best frustrating with all sort of weird problems. Just yesterday, as I was forced to use Windows at work, I couldn't get emacs to save a file because of some weird locking issue when trying to compile some react application that would work fine on linux
- Case81 5y agoI don’t get it though. WSL2 has been perfect for me this far. I can’t think of something I need Linux for anymore.
- plainnoodles 5y agoBasically what the other comments said. I specifically work on data stuff so it's all python and java/scala on linux servers.