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Ask HN: What about (M)AMP installations on the new M1 Macs?

I still use my MacBook Pro for app maintenance and deployments, but all the PHP development is done on an XPS13 with 32 GB RAM and the Linux Subsystem on Win PRO. To dabble with Ubuntu on the Windows Laptop in the WSL is surprisingly fast and satisfying. I also need the MS Office Suite constantly, so running purely on Linux is not an option.Now the questions:Would you shift from Win + WSL as a...

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Re:macOS is required to develop – no questions asked on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:12AM (#24460316)
That is totally true and I was just pointing out, that bashing the other system is not OK, just because you want to minimize your overhead. Windows might be the inferior platform or not for a specific purpose. But talking bad about the neighbor, because you dislike his house color is not something I want to have in our dev community (/personal opinion).
Re:macOS is required to develop – no questions asked on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:05AM (#24460275)
I know, the requirements for a Mac just to publish your app ALSO for iOS is a bit exhausting. Cordova or Flutter are pretty cool environments to write once and deploy every... wait, need to fire up the mac...
Re:macOS is required to develop – no questions asked on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:03AM (#24460262)
The one at the bottom for the Dell? That is an older SVALT stand ... the one up with the Mac is just one of these arms, you can get cheaply on amazon...
I fear this, too. Too many of the new brains are helpless without frameworks.