Re:The erosion of the Mac experience
by nordsieck on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:48AM
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> Why are 3rd party applications distributed as Disk Images? Then some as package installers? It's weird and nonsensical.
Maybe you use a lot of paid software?
I just use homebrew for everything, and it just works(tm) 98% of the time. Which is way better than my experience with Windows. I tried using a variety of Nanite, Chocolatey, etc. And none of it seems particularly mature.
> Mac hardware feels great, but I just cannot understand why it's the preferred developer platform.
In my experience, Windows is developer hostile if you aren't using Visual Studio. Almost everything is deployed to Linux, and OS X is close enough that most stuff just works, but the drivers and UI are also completely dependable.
Maybe you use a lot of paid software?
I just use homebrew for everything, and it just works(tm) 98% of the time. Which is way better than my experience with Windows. I tried using a variety of Nanite, Chocolatey, etc. And none of it seems particularly mature.
> Mac hardware feels great, but I just cannot understand why it's the preferred developer platform.
In my experience, Windows is developer hostile if you aren't using Visual Studio. Almost everything is deployed to Linux, and OS X is close enough that most stuff just works, but the drivers and UI are also completely dependable.