![]() Smaller startups tend to have mac-users for front-end development and a mix of windows/linux/mac for back-end guys.Īnd of course my experience here on HN gives me the impression that most front-end stuff is mac-centric.Īll that said, the big qualifiers are wealth and web. Viacom, for example, uses Rails for it's European sites and all developers in the office use macs. It's generally older, more conservative or more back-end focused shops that are on Windows (.NET, Umbraco), but even those often move to macs or want to. While I can't support this with figures, which I'd love to see by the way, my experience working as a consultant at a number of companies, from startups to big media conglomerates in Europe, is that for web, there's definitely a preference for macs, however slight. The closest I can get to this in Linux is with Wine, but that sucks worse than Cygwin does on Windows IMO. If that works out, I can have the best of both worlds without keeping any VMs running. ![]() Looking forward, Windows will soon have Ubuntu running on the Windows kernel. If I really, really needed to work on an iOS or OS X app while traveling and I could only bring one device with me for some reason, I would certainly bring only my Macbook Pro. If I run Windows in a guest VM, it's slower and GPU intensive apps suffer. Can I generally put things where I want them easily, without fighting against some overarching design opinion?Īll of the Linux software that I use regularly runs in a terminal and Linux runs absolutely great in a guest VM on any type of host. How easily can I customize the file browser to do things like adding new context menu actions (based on node type or other state) via third party modules? Will it run on most hardware without much hassle? But that's not the kind I'm interested in. For instance - Windows does not let you switch window managers the way you can in Linux. ![]() Personally, I only want flexibility within the realm of stability and speed. If I need my Windows desktop apps to work on the same files as I'm working on with my shell, then I just share the directory one way or another.įlexibility is certainly debatable depending on your point of view. I do use bash/dash and other shells regularly both on Linux and OS X. ![]()
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