Having used a Mac in a professional technical field for almost 20 years these threads are always fun. “It’s locked down! It’s an OS for babies! You can’t do anything with it! Mac users are stupid noobs!”
Well, you either care for freedom and privacy, or you don’t. MacOS might have its benefits (and surely beats Microsoft), but the price is too high. And I don’t mean the financial one.
Personally, I’ve yet to see someone that really KNOWS computers but prefers Apple. Those, that just want a device that works without magic, are usually the ones going for it.
To a very special kind of people it’s even a brand-thing.
Well, then others made that decision for you. If you like Mac or not stopped mattering then 😉
Luckily in these few times I tried working, I had the choice. Would’ve quit if there were privacy - concerns, though I might be a bit picky with my data…
I will ad that lately people working on Limux
Machines has become much more common. However, they still make me do the demos because every screen sharing app works on my Mac, no matter what the client is using.
Well of course they work on Mac. It’s a closed system, a walled garden of compability. Its main selling-point for the technically challenged.
I would not really see that a a benefit though, as it’s merely a symptom of an illness, even if inherently not bad by itself.
If one doesn’t care, then there’s no problem at all and mac wins. Same as windows and android. Then it comes down to taste in UI or favourite tools.
Or even “the brand” for the intellectually challenged.
all the same stuff? it’s bsd under the hood. it literally functions just like linux. I run cachy on my desktop and while kde plasma is great, mac is fantastic as well. about the only thing better on linux is that I can game.
I’ve done everything from Java test fixtures to Golang app development to building POC architectures in Docker. Right now I’m testing database failover scenarios in Kubernetes.
All the developers at the place I work have MBPs. Apple silicon and long battery life are pretty great. I think people forget that Mac had a package manager long before winget existed and that a lot of unix code runs fine on macOS
Having used a Mac in a professional technical field for almost 20 years these threads are always fun. “It’s locked down! It’s an OS for babies! You can’t do anything with it! Mac users are stupid noobs!”
Well, you being professional with a Mac and the other expressions aren’t mutually exclusive 😁
Guess the 75-80% of other folks I work with are stupid noobs for using a Mac and never did anything because it was so locked down.
Well, you either care for freedom and privacy, or you don’t. MacOS might have its benefits (and surely beats Microsoft), but the price is too high. And I don’t mean the financial one.
Personally, I’ve yet to see someone that really KNOWS computers but prefers Apple. Those, that just want a device that works without magic, are usually the ones going for it. To a very special kind of people it’s even a brand-thing.
It’s a work computer. I have neither freedom nor privacy.
Well, then others made that decision for you. If you like Mac or not stopped mattering then 😉
Luckily in these few times I tried working, I had the choice. Would’ve quit if there were privacy - concerns, though I might be a bit picky with my data…
I will ad that lately people working on Limux Machines has become much more common. However, they still make me do the demos because every screen sharing app works on my Mac, no matter what the client is using.
(Plus I’m good at demos.)
Well of course they work on Mac. It’s a closed system, a walled garden of compability. Its main selling-point for the technically challenged.
I would not really see that a a benefit though, as it’s merely a symptom of an illness, even if inherently not bad by itself. If one doesn’t care, then there’s no problem at all and mac wins. Same as windows and android. Then it comes down to taste in UI or favourite tools. Or even “the brand” for the intellectually challenged.
So things working is an illness. If computers are healthy and free things don’t work. Got it.
What do you do with a Mac?
all the same stuff? it’s bsd under the hood. it literally functions just like linux. I run cachy on my desktop and while kde plasma is great, mac is fantastic as well. about the only thing better on linux is that I can game.
I’ve done everything from Java test fixtures to Golang app development to building POC architectures in Docker. Right now I’m testing database failover scenarios in Kubernetes.
All the developers at the place I work have MBPs. Apple silicon and long battery life are pretty great. I think people forget that Mac had a package manager long before winget existed and that a lot of unix code runs fine on macOS
I mean, no other OS needs a “Genius Bar” to troubleshoot and repair the most basic of issues.
Yes. I never once got a call at midnight from my mom to help her fix a printing problem when she used windows.
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