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Eh, they're both proprietary OSes. Maybe you're more used to the UI paradigms of one or the other, but other than that, I don't see a strong reason to prefer on
by Tijdreiziger 3y ago
Eh, they're both proprietary OSes. Maybe you're more used to the UI paradigms of one or the other, but other than that, I don't see a strong reason to prefer one or the other.
Also, I personally don't use any of these tools except Office, but I'm pretty sure classing developers as having psychological issues based on their language ecosystem choice is against HN guidelines.
- whalesalad 3y agoUnder the hood macOS is Unix though... so there is a lot to be said for that. I can run tools like sed, awk, grep right out of the box. As someone who is in a shell 24x7 on multiple remote linux servers it is nice to also have a very similar experience within my local desktop environment.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoSo then you just `wsl --install` and you get a proper Linux distribution. Also get the Windows Terminal from the store and you're off to the races. I honestly consider this a better experience compared to Apple's BSD tools and lack of first-party package manager.
- whalesalad 3y agoif you enjoy using windows, sure this is a perfectly valid option.
- hulitu 3y ago> So then you just `wsl --install` and you get a proper Linux distribution. You mean `wsl --install` will install Slackware on my computer ? /s