[akfanta]

> Mac are not friendly to a developer. And they never were. The only reason why developer use them is because they need to program on iOS and thus need XCode (that is a terrible IDE) and the iOS toolchain.

That's just wrong on so many levels. The majority of developers using Mac don't touch Xcode at all.

[alerighi]

Don't see what macOS gives you more than Linux if you don't need XCode. While I can understand developers that use Windows (there are a ton of compilers and development environments that unfortunately are only for Windows, especially in the embedded field) I can't name a tool other than XCode that doesn't run on Linux.

And why should you spend a ton of money on an underpowered Mac while with the same amount of money you get a more performant Linux workstation I have no idea. And not name the fact that m1 Mac are cheap, yes they kind of are (not really, for 1200$ you can get a similar performant Linux laptop), if you don't need to run x86 software or virtual machines.

MacOS to me is an OS that is difficult to use and understand, with so many problems (that are admitted even by Apple, for example it wastes a ton of RAM for nothing).

Really I know macOS, I had a Macbook in the past, a Macbook pro 15 mid 2015, and it was kind of good (well, I paid it a ton of money), and still some things I appreciate more than my current laptop (the screen and the touchpad are fantastic, for example), but I hated MacOS, update after update it become slower and more full of useless stuff that consumed resources, and full of stupid privacy and security features that get in your way (like stupid prompts that you get when you try to run a third party application downloaded from the internet and you have to get every time in the Settings application to consent it - something that I had to research on the internet how to do the first time. They say Apple is intuitive right?)

[rbreaves]

> MacOS to me is an OS that is difficult to use and understand, with so many problems (that are admitted even by Apple, for example it wastes a ton of RAM for nothing).

Have you met android ? Omg that system requires DOUBLE the ram to do literally anything that an iPhone can do.. doesn't matter that it runs Linux technically either.. when shovel java on top of it..