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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by Kudos on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:31AM (#31096661)
I'm a Linux user who previously used Macs for years. This list barely touches the actual reality of developing on a Mac for most people. It is not nearly as strong an argument as the arrogant tone suggests.
Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by horsawlarway on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:54AM (#31096987)
Hey - Fellow linux user here, I get issued a macbook by work because I touch mobile related code. I can tell you - I'll take win10 over macOS any fucking day.

This list is literally just the most obnoxious fraction of items that have impacted me over the last 5 years of use. I can absolutely keep going.

You want me to discuss the rapid phase out of kernel extensions that allowed VMs to operate well?

Or the minor annoyance that is allowing execution for every fucking brew installed tool, since macOS blocks it by default.

Or should I look at the random 2 hour update times, where the computer is completely unusable?

Or the utterly insane memory usage when running even a small scattering of containers? 4 fairly simple containers will eat 10gbs of ram running a mid sized RoR app, elastic, and a db.

Or how about the xcode install times required to use simple tooling, like git, because "muh system integrity protection!!!" - but don't worry, at least you can get away with "just the command line" version of the tooling, which only eats a few gbs, instead of the fucking 40gb that xcode proper wants.