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>Most web developers use a windows or linux machine to develop and a physical device to test. Maybe I am living in a bubble but every single web developer I ha

>Most web developers use a windows or linux machine to develop and a physical device to test. Maybe I am living in a bubble but every single web developer I have ever met used a Mac. Why ? Because it is the only platform that has Photoshop + a UNIX shell.

Anderkent 14y ago
Not every web developer is a designer. Also, cygwin.
- taligent 14y ago
  But most web designers would be slicing PSDs at some point, right ? And Cygwin is a joke. Dealing with the page separator differences alone would make it unbearable.
  - moreati 14y ago
    I believe Aderkent meant that many web developers who are not designers (e.g. me) have no need of Photoshop - so we don't use a Mac.
    - esolyt 14y ago
      By the way, Gimp can open psd files. I'm not sure it works perfect though.
- jrajav 14y ago
  MSYS is much more workable than Cygwin, but it's still not a panacea. More of a placebo really.
hack_edu 14y ago
Me as well, but this too strikes me as a part of the Valley bubble.
- semanticist 14y ago
  It's not - Macs are vastly over-represented in Edinburgh, and in London too. There's more Macs at the Edinburgh Ruby user group meeting than at the Mac user group meeting!
recursive 14y ago
I am a web developer, and I've never used photoshop. I rarely touch graphics at all. My sense is that this is true for most or at least many web developers in general.