Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?

Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by Philipp__ on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:09AM (#13317234)

Situation is fairly simple. Linux on desktop has reached some kind of mature phase (as weird as it sounds, compared to previous years, Linux on desktop was never in better position), where you can get decent performance out of DE and GUI, without sacrificing comfort of CLI. On the other hand, many developers felt let down by Apple's last year, and decided to jump to Windows/Linux. And that is totally fine. I think few factors played crucial role in that, besides Apple's weak year. For example, people needed change. Many of devs got bored, and we know we developer are weird kind of people, sometimes little masochistic, where we constantly tweak and play with our systems.

Remember the times around 2006. when many developers were jumping to Apple ecosystem, rise of TextMate, Dtrace, the magnificent Snow Leopard came out year after that...

So I think things move, and that's the good thing. If you are not satisfied or productive on current platform/setup, then go and search for something that will fit your needs.

I bought 13" MBP last year (2015. model) and I am really happy with the machine, to the point where I don't have a single gripe (except macOS thingys).

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by itchynosedev on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:44AM (#13317759)

I think 2015 mbp is the closest a laptop got to being perfect for me. Screen, battery life, trackpad, finish and performance. All in a beautiful balance.

I used to dislike macos so much that went mbp 2015 > thinkpad > sp4. I realised how much better macbooks were than their comptetition that I bought it again only with more storage. I think Surface line will bethe next thing for me but it was still too buggy for daily use.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by Philipp__ on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:48AM (#13318177)

Surface was always tempting for me, but I can't stand Windows in any shape or form. I really hate it, and I never felt comfortable using it or developing on it (I never touched Microsoft stack, .NET, Azure and that stuff, so...).

What looks more tempting to me, is new Lenovo Carbon X1 that got announced a day ago on CES. That could be sweet Linux dev. machine, light, with solid battery life, thin bezels, nice keyboard, trackpoint...

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by 91bananas on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:59AM (#13319306)

Is Linux possible on a Surface? It to me looks like the only possible replacement for an MBP right now, but I too could not handle Windows for a second.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by Philipp__ on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:14AM (#13319437)

I don't have nerves nor time to write drivers... no way in hell I'll buy Surface device and fiddle with Linux on it. I think you can get much better laptops for same price, plus I have opportunity to install FreeBSD on them, where on Durface it isn't possible, or you have to sacrifice certain functions/components.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by PaulyGlott on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:14AM (#13319439)

Linux works poorly on my SurfaceBook pro. When I connect a monitor to the DisplayPort, Ubuntu freezes at the login prompt. If I just use the laptop screen, it's usable, but I get OS errors.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by wastedhours on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:03AM (#13317889)

Agree, bought my 2015 MBP about 6 months ago and it's all but perfect and satisfies all of my needs. When the time comes though, I'm jealously eyeing up a Razer Blade 14, which could dual boot to a Linux distro...

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by mixedCase on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:35AM (#13319654)

Razer laptops have historically ran poorly with Linux. I'd look somewhere else unless things have significantly changed.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by digi_owl on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:05PM (#13322536)

Expect things to break soon enough, because CADT...

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