If you need something like the docker desktop UI, check out portainer.
It doesn't seem like a huge leap from sandboxing to containerization.
They also might consider supporting BSD-style jails.
It used to be that Windows had a better UX than OS X (imho at least), but nowadays they're equally crap and they can't compare with what's available on linux.
With two machines, I'd still pick Windows for gaming dev and linux for everything else.
With three machines, I'd add a screen-less mac mini to do iOS related builds.
Counterpoint: I've never seen someone in the Bay Area developing on a Windows machine, in any company I've worked at. In my experience, locally, it's more like 95% Mac, 5% Linux, and 0% Windows.
Now, I know that neither of our anecdotes represent the state of the world in general, but the notion that "Macs are for non-techies" is laughable on the face of it.
What is important is having a set of keystrokes that make sense to me (the mac command button does not work well on my PC laptops, and remapping just makes stuff worse) and don't change over decades.
That’s right up there with “iPhones are for sheep LOL” as far as things that make the speaker sound a lot worse than the people they’re talking about.
I don't think this is true at all. Despite not developing Mac applications, we've (Twilio) been a Mac shop since day one, 14 years ago. This was driven by our three founders, who, at the time, were all engineers. These days our IT department offers Windows machines for employees who need it for some reason, but uptake is likely in the single-digit percentages.
And I know a lot of people who do technical work at various companies whose primary work machine is a MacBook Pro.
This might be a Silicon Valley startup thing. I would expect the Stack Overflow survey is skewed pretty hard toward Windows due to big corporate enterprises that aren't tech companies. It seems to me that most "tech companies" prefer Macs.
> Take for example using netcat. The version available to Mac is 17 years old and lacking some useful flags
I run Linux, so I don't have firsthand experience with much of this, but everyone I know who uses macOS for development has something like Homebrew installed, so they can get up-to-date versions of the various tools that are outdated in the default macOS install.
I don't disagree that the built-in tools on Mac leave a lot to be desired, but you can also just brew install things and clearly Docker has gone to a lot of effort to make this all work on Mac, so the demand is there.
I switched to Linux for the current company, and was expecting fewer Docker oddities and better battery life, but I seem to actually have way more issues now, which - without sinking a week or more into investigating transient issues - I attribute to it not being isolated in a VM.
I often have to reboot my machine just to get basic DNS resolution working from inside a container
You needn't rely on your memory, the survey is still available [0]. FWIW, it doesn't seem to contain a question about the OS where development takes place, only about the targets[1]. The top answers were:
Linux 48.3%
Windows Desktop or Server 35.4%
Android 29.0%
AWS 24.1%
Mac OS 17.9%
[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
[1] "Linux and Windows Desktop or Server are the most common choices that our respondents say they have done development work for this year." (emphasis mine)
Windows 49.9%
MacOS 26.7%
Linux-based 23.2%
BSD/Unix 0.2%
[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-_...
Because Apple has no plans of growing their server OS marketshare. I know there are benefits of using namespaces (containers) in the desktop market, but they don't sell iMacs/MBPs. Exterior design and heavy marketing is their sales strategy.
Otherwise they are just UNIX developers that don't care which POSIX platform they are actually using.
Come on Apple. Microsoft can do it.
edit: this seems like a new development since my last whine/complaint on this topic:
https://macoscontainers.org/