> It helps so much that OSX is a lot like Linux. That means I can have an almost exact duplicate of my production environment (e.g. the actual Linode server whe

> It helps so much that OSX is a lot like Linux. That means I can have an almost exact duplicate of my production environment (e.g. the actual Linode server where the live website is running) This was written in 2014 but even then Docker was a viable option to create a local environment in Windows that could mimic a vm running linux on linode. Developing on a mac has a lot of advantages but I don't feel like this is one of them.