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My preferences are irrelevant when I can’t natively run the commercial software I require to do my job(s) on the OS you suggest. If Linux can work for you - es

My preferences are irrelevant when I can’t natively run the commercial software I require to do my job(s) on the OS you suggest. If Linux can work for you - especially in your office - you are a privileged minority. With MacOS, I get the underlying UNIX subsystem - and the ability to use commercial software, to boot. Even Windows has WSL nowadays. And you can downvote me - you can disagree with me - but deep down; you know nothing you can say is going to change the fact that - for example - I rely on Apple’s Logic Pro X; and have a decade and a half of Logic files. It would take an immeasurable amount of effort to somehow extract the MIDI and audio data from those files, and somehow convert them into Ardour files. I would lose EQ and compressor settings - and - even then, the plugins I use - iZotope and Native Instruments software, in particular - wouldn’t work. That’s just one simple example - and there’s one of those for almost anyone. The larger one is the corporate/enterprise situation, where proprietary applications are often hanging on by a thread with the office ecosystem as-is, and - no - they will not convert these applications over to Linux. They won’t update those applications to start. Linux is great, it’s awesome that it exists, and it can work for a very small minority of people.

advael 5y ago
I agree that enterprise-level collusion has locked you and many others into proprietary platforms. Again, I advocate using whatever tools work best for you, if your priority is not control over your tools. Every year the FOSS ecosystems get more usable for more purposes, but if your job tells you you have to use a particular tool, then you don't really have much of a choice, as you say.
pdimitar 5y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted. It's indeed true that many times you don't have a say over what software or even OS you have to use for your work. For a lot of us the software devs we do have the choice -- but even then we naturally converge to macOS or Linux due to less friction and more productivity. And yep, entrenching is basically the name of the game for most orgs. They are deathly scared of change. Linux will not change that. It changes the game for the professionals, not the companies (and even that is not 100% true; they still use Linux servers for almost everything).

advael 5y ago

I agree that enterprise-level collusion has locked you and many others into proprietary platforms. Again, I advocate using whatever tools work best for you, if your priority is not control over your tools. Every year the FOSS ecosystems get more usable for more purposes, but if your job tells you you have to use a particular tool, then you don't really have much of a choice, as you say.

pdimitar 5y ago

Not sure why you are downvoted. It's indeed true that many times you don't have a say over what software or even OS you have to use for your work. For a lot of us the software devs we do have the choice -- but even then we naturally converge to macOS or Linux due to less friction and more productivity. And yep, entrenching is basically the name of the game for most orgs. They are deathly scared of change. Linux will not change that. It changes the game for the professionals, not the companies (and even that is not 100% true; they still use Linux servers for almost everything).