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I agree 100%, but balanced against the fact that many devs need laptops from their employer, and it's way easier to get a good macbook that just works good enou

by duped 5y ago

I agree 100%, but balanced against the fact that many devs need laptops from their employer, and it's way easier to get a good macbook that just works good enough for development than a linux machine. Especially when you don't control ordering, or need to inherit machines. Dev on Mac and deploy on Linux is a popular setup for a reason. Until there's a macbook pro for linux that you can just buy*, it's going to continue to be popular. * the XPS 13/15 are about as close as you can get

packetlost 5y ago
If you're developing on a macbook but targeting Linux, you should probably be using VMs
thrtythreeforty 5y ago
The "Macbook Pro for Linux" may turn out to be the Macbook Pro: https://asahilinux.org/ https://asahilinux.org/ (at least, once they add drivers for the GPU!)
- duped 5y ago
  ...until Apple releases the next generation that breaks it. It's a bit sisyphean.
wheelerof4te 5y ago
Macs are overpriced garbage. I cringe when I see one. There are so many good laptops that work fine on Linux.