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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:04PM (#17962839)
They were talking about editing documents that require licensed / non-open source software, no? Not the actual development?

Edit your docs in windows, write your code on the Linux VM.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by justwalt on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:13PM (#17962913)
Why not run Linux with Windows in the VM? Is there a reason?
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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:25PM (#17963032)
Potato potato.

For instance for my current dev station I have a Mac and whenever I need Windows for something I use a Windows VM. It works pretty well for me.

The bottom line is that the guy needs cheap hardware that allows for a modern dev environment and also access to windows. Some flavor of linux + windows will check the boxes.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by gaius on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:58PM (#17963307)
Edit your docs in Windows, write your code with Visual Studio targeting WSL. It’s the future.
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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:24PM (#17964313)
... nothing about writing code in windows is the future.
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