Comment by fapjacks
10 years ago
>That's not just because it has a shiny apple silhouette on it.
Actually, in my experience, it's because that's what the company offers them to use at work, and most people just go with the default. I have been told many times "And you get a shiny new MacBook!" And I thank them and mention that I prefer to work on a Linux machine. It is almost comical how many blinking stares I have gotten. It fucking is about the shiny apple silhouette on it. It is 100% about image and not utility ("Sorry! I have work to do and I'm not allergic to the GPLv3!"). Especially because when you buy an Apple, you are paying so much for mediocre hardware at best. I have had better luck with late-model Thinkpads than I have had with MacBooks! They're not magical. Well, not magical beyond that shiny Apple silhouette.
So you don't like the MacBook therefore nobody could have any valid reason to like it?
Consider why these companies given employees MacBooks in the first place. (The answer is usually that Linux doesn't work well enough for them.)
No, the answer is that they don't have a lot of people that use Linux. You can't honestly tell me that Macs work better than Linux for most of the tasks a programmer or devops needs to do on a daily basis. I know it's true that they don't work as well as Linux machines because I have had to support both platforms over my twenty years in this industry. Here's a neat trick (and just one example): Set up LDAP authentication on a server and then try to get your MacBook's to work. Good luck!