Re:More developers now use OS X than Linux
by oneeyedpigeon on Friday March 18, 2016 @09:34AM
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Not that I'm arguing that it isn't a misleading title, but when you say "Like hundreds of other people where I work (Red Hat) I work full time on Linux from a non-Linux laptop.", how many of those are using Macs? I wouldn't personally consider working this way because of the cost; if I wanted to run Linux, I would purchase a much cheaper laptop to do it on. Are there really that many people that work on Linux full-time but are willing to pay 3-4 times more just for superior build quality?
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Re:More developers now use OS X than Linux
by notacoward on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:37AM
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It varies a lot across the company. The great majority use very boring company-provided laptops running Linux natively, but a significant number use personally owned machines - usually Macs. Over on the JBoss side, it seems to be all Macs all the time. However, that doesn't mean the development is actually happening on the same machine as code editing or web browsing. Even with a Linux laptop, there's often a need to run a very specific version of RHEL for all testing. If you're running Fedora, that's not going to cut it, so the habit everywhere is to use VMs or machines in a lab somewhere for the actual work.