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Honestly no. The crowd who uses Linux primarily currently is well versed with installing it on a Mac, or any laptop really. Linux is built on the notion of sel
by valarauca1 12y ago
Honestly no.
The crowd who uses Linux primarily currently is well versed with installing it on a Mac, or any laptop really. Linux is built on the notion of self-reliance, self-development, do it yourself, laugh in the face of danger [1]. So marketing to people who hold these principles is challenging.
On top of that MacOSX is a full Unix w/ Bash + GNU utils. So functionally from a developers perspective you don't gain much of anything. Interacting with a Mac or Linux from the CLI is pretty much the same.
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux.dev.kernel/qeeP584Ny08/CM0gZB0L7nQJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux.dev.kernel/qeeP5...
- dman 12y agoMy experience installing Linux on a recent macbook pro was not very good. It picks the nvidia card as the gpu and does not give me an option to switch to using the intel gpu. It is true that OSX is a full unix, but it does not come with a package manager resulting in a subpar developer workstation experience out of the box. In practice I have never found homebrew / fink / macports to ever be as reliable as yum / apt / ports on Linux / BSD. Also setting up gdb on mac currently is a bit of an exercise.
- zanny 12y agoWow, I just realized I cannot imagine how anyone can develop software on a Mac considering the lack of package management outside Homebrew. I never even though of that, I just didn't use Macs because the UI looks like shit and the whole display manager and up is proprietary.