I switched from Windows to Linux years ago. ( For a while gentoo pre 1.0) At the time laptops where really hard to work with under Linux. Since the shell on windows is like a basketball player ridding tricycle on the beach and cygwin is only fun if you don't have access to Linux / BSD shell. Then we created a build for all our servers under SuSE so I switch my laptop to SuSE.
Eventually the other developers in my office got Macs and I was the lone PC person. All I had over them was the nipple and the fact I was running the server platform. Last summer I fought no longer and now I must admit I am a lot more productive. I don't get to have as much hacker fun and my hacker knowledge is not growing as fast as it use to but I get more work done.
The mac is great for developers because it has all the production eviornment tools that you need, is stable and the best gui on the market. In the future I can see Linux becoming the best gui on the market could be 3 years could be 10.
Mac Geek pros:
- BSD userspace
- Objective-C rules
- iWork, iLife and all wonderful tools
- Sync iLife with PDA/Phone love that some things just work
- Macs make me look cooler
- Not BSD kernel
- Safari is not Firefox optimized on Darwin
- Terminal is not a seperate process
- Some times I want to do a little hacking to get things to work
- I need a mac to make me look cooler
If you buy a mac you can alway dual boot to Linux, if you really don't like the mac you can single boot to Linux. I haven't dual booted yet and I don't plan to I just want one of those dual core laptops!
On 3/24/06, Robin Haswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hm sounds interesting. I think from the comments my next machine (why I
really asked this) will still be a Thinkpad as planned. I've always
wanted a Thinkpad with Ubuntu installed on it, but I did think to myself
there might be a few benefits of the Macs which apply to me.
I guess it all depends on your situation. Personally all I need to do my
job is a terminal emulator and a web browser. I've tried GUI text
editors and I just end up splattering my code with "dd", ":w" and
"VPPP". Ah well.
On the Vaio front, I had to use one of those over the last few days for
a business trip. The screen IS awesome, but the rest of it really bugs
me - I can't stand the mouse buttons and the trackpad, well.. I'm a
nipple man myself.
I'm personally of the opinion that the hardware interface to a computer
is much more important than what's inside it, which is why my keyboard
and mouse cost more than just about any other component in my computer
at home..
Cheers for the help
-Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Ok, I'll stick my hand up - I don't use a Mac.
>
> Mac usage seems to be an emergent trend in web development.
>
> Generally I use:
>
> Sony VAIO laptop (most of the time develop on this), have two desktop PC's - one running windows, one running Linux Debian Sarge. All wireless networked.
>
> The quality of the VAIO is amazing - screen is the best I've seen. One difference between PC and Mac is cost - PC's generally cheaper for more processing power. Mac is a great 'whole' product though.
>
> Software: PSPro Editor, Cygwin (for bash and other Unix flavoured goodies) and of course latest Python.
>
> I've been tempted to buy a Mac on a number of occasions but I can't justify it on style alone. They're quite expensive (in the UK at least) and my current setup is doing everything I need it to.
>
> Biggest difference for me with regards to Mac is being able to test on Safari - not just css/html issues either but interactive _javascript_ testing.
>
> Luckily there's Mac emulation which should be good enough to run Safari. Also for Mac's you can get PC emulators (you Mac developers *are* testing on IE6 at least? :-) )
>
> Justin
>
>
>>From: Robin Haswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: 2006/03/24 Fri AM 09:33:01 GMT
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [TurboGears] [OT] What is it with Macs?
>>
>>
>>I'm genuinely interested, why is it that nearly every developer for TG
>>(that produces a video at least) seems to own a Mac? In fact I'm yet to
>>see any evidence of anyone NOT using a Mac! Why is that? Is there a
>>genuine programmer's reason why I should consider one?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>-Rob
>>
>>
>>
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