Le 20/12/2017 à 00:45, Nate Bargmann a écrit :
* On 2017 19 Dec 16:12 -0600, Adam Borowski wrote:
For people working on server or web crap, that's reasonable (besides the
unreasonability of using OS X in general): a good part of server Debian
users connect from Windows or Fruits, developers doing so wouldn't make me
bat an eye. Note that they _do_ use what they produce.
For arm stuff, unplausible as even for cross toolchains, everything is
heavily married to Linux hosts.
For client and GUI stuff, it'd be newsworthy. If you don't even use your
own product, you're bound to produce utter unusable crap. See: Miguel de
Icaza.
Perhaps not DDs explicitly, but there are videos out there at *Linux*
conferences where some developer opens their Mac laptop and proceeds to
switch to the VM running $LINUX_DISTRIBUTION (probably Red Hat).
There were plenty of blog posts years ago from "Linux" devs in love with
their Macbook. It was a rather embarrassing thing to observe.
That explains the fascination of Gnome developpers for shiny
features and their will to reduce user's freedom about themes. People
with Macs seem to enjoy very much Knotes and its shiny transitions
between slides. I'm on Linux because I like to understand what's in my
computer and tweak it myself.
I remember a pretty good Russian engineer who developped software
for a Linux infrastructure but definitely preferred Windows for his own
daily use and even to interface with the Linux systems. And this was not
a fascination for shiny things. He was developping for Linux only becaus
he was paid for that.
But when all Linux developpers in a conference are using a Mac, it
tells something about what Linux is for them: for the idiot users, an
OS made for them, and, for themselves, just a job. It's a problem that
the future of Linux be in their hands.
Didier
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