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I'm baffled that any developer uses a Mac. I know, I know... BSD, 3-finger swipe, but-they-wrote-the-ux-guide. But I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a problem (on thinkpads, latitudes and desktops) I guess I'm weird in that I think gnome 3 is swell.

CI handles xCode. Otherwise, my 2x 42" 4k monitors, Gnome and works-here-same-as-the-cloud self reads these articles on puzzlement.

I can't count the times I've helped developers deal with oh-yeah-brew-is-weird-about-libpq. Now this? It's the avocado-toast of developer workstations...

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TheRealDunkirk|5 years ago

> I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a problem

I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, through years-long stretches of Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. Obviously, I was (and still am) a huge fan, but if you've managed 15 years of Linux on the desktop with "nary a problem," you have had the most unbelievable luck of any human on the planet, and should start buying lottery tickets.

After running Gentoo for several years, and switching to Ubuntu, I was amazed at how much time I was saving not dealing with portage. Fair enough. I mean, I was asking for it by using a source distro, but I had that same sigh of relief when I finally bought a Mac, and realized that I was still doing a lot of maintenance to keep Ubuntu happy, even though it was (obviously) a huge improvement over Gentoo. I just couldn't see it until it was gone.

Toutouxc|5 years ago

I held on to a Dell running Ubuntu for two years because I couldn't convince myself to shell out north of $2k for a comparable MacBook (I'd had a MacBook before).

Then after one of the kernel updates the "resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0" bug started happening, I had to downgrade to an earlier kernel, then Ubuntu 20 came with Snap everywhere, then covid came and I started having Zoom meetings all over the place and my mic would randomly stop working and I started using a 4K screen and noticed how choppy scrolling is and that YouTube stutters hard in fullscreen, then there was a memory leak in Firefox, semi-functional display scaling, the machine sometimes wouldn't wake up from deep sleep...

Then the M1 Macs came out and I got an Air. I've been using it for a month and it's heaven. It's like coming home. It gets work done, lets me have fun, watch videos, play some games and gets out of the way.

MrScruff|5 years ago

I mean, as someone that's been running Linux full time at work for two decades I still don't have copy/paste working consistently between applications.