Comment by osigurdson
1 day ago
I don't know about the "you should too" part. I use Arch, it works fine for me but I am patient and want to use it. Realistically, I would expect the largest migration should be devs switching from mac to Linux. I don't see any reason at all to use a mac for development anymore.
Omarchy is a nice experience for devs.
Funnily enough, though, you can get a very user friendly experience using Niri and Dank Linux (don't remember the exact name). It takes two 3 CLI commands to install, and the top bar incredibly cool, compared to the i3 defaults and even to what I remember of Gnome and KDE.
Next up: somebody comes up with a desktop environment called BTW.
Unfortunately Mac hardware is a huge leap ahead of anything else.
Most of those advantages are practically irrelevant for the majority of users or a matter of having gotten used to things being a certain way.
That just isn't true. Battery life, for example, is definitely not irrelevant for most users.
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No, the touchpad alone puts it way above every laptop I’ve tried
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Has apple severely degraded the developer experience on MacOS recently or something?
You may not need it but no kernel support for containers / cgroups is a deal breaker for me. Windows at least makes an attempt with WSL. But, at the end of the day, most things are just about rationalizing what you want to use. I personally identify with Linux tribe, not Mac tribe therefore that is what I want to use.
I had no idea there was no kernel support for containers. I use containers a lot now but haven't used MacOS in years. Thanks for the info. (Fedora/ Windows user myself)