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Someone pointed out to me that only 3 months ago, DHH had "committed to Windows" [1]. It's kind of funny seeing him completely change course again with so much

Someone pointed out to me that only 3 months ago, DHH had "committed to Windows" [1]. It's kind of funny seeing him completely change course again with so much conviction. I get the sense that he has a little too much time for bikeshedding. [1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/committing-to-windows-2d6388fd https://world.hey.com/dhh/committing-to-windows-2d6388fd

dewey 2y ago
That’s not the full story, he saw that they were a monoculture and now Basecamp encourages people to use macOS, Linux and Windows. This already resulted in some fixes that they weren’t aware of because everyone was just using the latest Macs.
- mvkel 2y ago
  > he saw that they were a monoculture That's some retconning. He felt slighted by Apple one too many times with App Store woes and decided to change his entire company to not be dependent on Apple products. But obviously that would seem a petty, and/or emotionally driven decision. So he made the narrative about running -to- something rather than running -from- something
- FireBeyond 2y ago
  That took a while. In the rise of OS X, and popularity, people thought we were past the days of little website buttons with "This site best viewed in IE/Navigator", etc. Along came a slew of Apple faithful, who had spent the last years vehemently complaining about how this was an anathema to the principles of the web, gleefully repeating the same things, this time it was just an unspoken or less spoken "Works on Safari on my Mac, ship it". 37signals was definitely one of those. So it's not a new thing.
- tgma 2y ago
  It seems his philosophy is sticking it to Apple and Tim Cook. While Linux might be a decent experience, it doesn't appear to me that the Framework laptop experience with Linux is comparable to what you get from the M1+ Mac. Even Linus himself uses a MacBook to run Linux.
walterbell 2y ago
Linux on Windows, to be precise. > I've decided to make Windows my new primary abode. That's Windows with Linux running inside of it as a subsystem (WSL), mind you. I would never have contemplated a switch to Windows without being able to run Linux inside it.

dewey 2y ago

That’s not the full story, he saw that they were a monoculture and now Basecamp encourages people to use macOS, Linux and Windows. This already resulted in some fixes that they weren’t aware of because everyone was just using the latest Macs.

mvkel 2y ago
> he saw that they were a monoculture That's some retconning. He felt slighted by Apple one too many times with App Store woes and decided to change his entire company to not be dependent on Apple products. But obviously that would seem a petty, and/or emotionally driven decision. So he made the narrative about running -to- something rather than running -from- something
FireBeyond 2y ago
That took a while. In the rise of OS X, and popularity, people thought we were past the days of little website buttons with "This site best viewed in IE/Navigator", etc. Along came a slew of Apple faithful, who had spent the last years vehemently complaining about how this was an anathema to the principles of the web, gleefully repeating the same things, this time it was just an unspoken or less spoken "Works on Safari on my Mac, ship it". 37signals was definitely one of those. So it's not a new thing.
tgma 2y ago
It seems his philosophy is sticking it to Apple and Tim Cook. While Linux might be a decent experience, it doesn't appear to me that the Framework laptop experience with Linux is comparable to what you get from the M1+ Mac. Even Linus himself uses a MacBook to run Linux.

walterbell 2y ago

Linux on Windows, to be precise. > I've decided to make Windows my new primary abode. That's Windows with Linux running inside of it as a subsystem (WSL), mind you. I would never have contemplated a switch to Windows without being able to run Linux inside it.