stabby_cicadahow can something be so courageous and yet so true
Yes you truly need Starbucks and labtops to live
DeceptichumGenerally most people need a computer these days, yes.
As for the Starbucks not my thing, but people also need sources of enjoyment and sometimes that can be from a sweet drink.
Life isn’t about only food and water.
You don’t need a Mac though, in fact in most circumstances using a Mac actively makes performing computer necessary tasks harder than just using the local library computers.
Mac is the bougie flex of choosing to be less productive for the sake of brand clout.
FlatFootFoxWhat are you talking about? Macs are wildly popular dev machines.
I’ve been in a dev environment and have literally seen nothing of the sort
Also, wildly popular doesn’t mean wildly effective, even if that was true
I am a dec, and use a MacBook.
… to SSH into my GNU/Linux build machine
When I did dev for middleware it was all on Mac’s
Everywhere I’ve worked for the last 8 years has used Macs for developers. One place I was at started with Windows and people jumped at the opportunity to switch to a Mac when they got the option.
Macs have been standard for my software development career for more than a decade, yes.
They have a lot of Unix stuff but are pretty standardized and widely supported.
Everyone uses docker, which isn’t super great on Mac.