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Re:Ask HN: Why did OS X win out over Linux for so many devel... by pdkl95 on Saturday December 12, 2015 @09:40PM (#10725187)
Why? Because far too many developers are distracted by technical baubles instead of prioritizing the long term freedom. We are losing the War On General Purpose Computing, and apple - having convinced a generation of programmers to develop for their closed platforms - has done a lot of damage to computing freedom.
Re:Ask HN: Why did OS X win out over Linux for so many devel... by __44x0 on Saturday December 12, 2015 @11:55PM (#10725461)
Absolutely. I would continue to use Linux even if I thought my development environment / user experience were worse than on Windows or OS X. Fortunately I don't though!