In fact you can bring your own laptop and without reimaging use that for development. All interval tools (of which there aren’t too many are written in Go so are cross platform). I ordered a framework laptop and will expense it once it is here.
A lot of random programs that seem to be needed for corporate work, like outlook and teams, I imagine don't work or are somehow even worse on linux. Or is that what people are referring to with the junk software?
Does the general dev stack really run significantly more performant on linux distros? Significant as in uses 50% of the resources, compared to a 5% performance increase.
Windows drivers are relatively so optimized, I've seen battery life double when switching from Ubuntu to Windows on laptops although I haven't tested it in a while. The constant random headaches with webcams / mics / mice not working as expected has basically been my deal breaker in the past. Mac has been a decent medium.
I thought Teams was shitty on Linux, then I got switched to a Mac. Teams was just as shitty there too. I don't think it's any better on Windows either.
> Does the general dev stack really run significantly more performant on linux distros? Significant as in uses 50% of the resources, compared to a 5% performance increase.
Depends on the stack. One example: Being able to use Docker Engine natively rather than Docker Desktop saves a lot of resources.
This is why so many devs I know moved to Mac's. Not because Mac's are necessary that great, who cares about battery life when it just sits on a desk, but because it's the closest you can get to Linux in a corporate environment.
I would take native Linux on an ThinkPad as first option, but denied that I would go for Mac over Windows. I don't find WSL fixed all the other Windows problems such as lack of support for multiple desktops. They exist but the implementation is terrible.
Running 32gb laptops to run a few development environments that really should be fine in 16gb is sad.
Gnome and KDE are so much smoother when it comes to these workflows.
I dream of the day my employer provides an in-house distro for me.