Re:Ask HN: What do I do now that Apple Macs suck?
by pmontra on Saturday October 29, 2016 @04:25AM
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If you have to work with MacOS you have to stick with Apple hardware even if you think it sucks. Maybe you should slowly steer your business to a more vendor neutral workflow and finally jump ship when you are comfortable with it. For example you might start using tools that are available also on Linux and Windows. I switched from Windows to Linux 7 years ago when I was using only open source cross platform tools and I was developing for Linux servers anyway.
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Re:Ask HN: What do I do now that Apple Macs suck?
by sghiassy on Saturday October 29, 2016 @04:35AM
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Microsoft seems to be doing an amazing job of being comtabile with Linux CLI lately, but it seems like they are still years away from parity.
I make iOS apps, so migrating away is gonna be hard
Re:Ask HN: What do I do now that Apple Macs suck?
by pmontra on Saturday October 29, 2016 @05:57AM
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In that case the best you can do is keep a Mac for coding and building those iOS apps and buy another laptop for everything else you do, if you don't only do apps. Move everything off the Mac so that it won't be your primary platform or you'll still be locked into Apple.
Years ago I was about to have to do some iOS app for a customer and I was considering buying a Mac Mini especially for that project. But I would have kept everything else on my Ubuntu laptop from HP. The Mac would have been on only to code the apps. Then I found somebody else to do those apps for me and I saved a lot of money.