started using a Mac as my personal machine recently after exclusively using linux for 20 years and one of the most surprising things has been that the options for creative software (making vector graphics, fonts, etc) on Mac really are much better in many cases
feels like one of those things that everyone knows but I never really internalized
(do not lecture me about the options available on Linux, I promise I know)
also i should say that using a mac has been hard for me, after using linux for 20 years there are a lot of things from Linux that I really miss (like package management, strace & friends, native container support).
I really understood how my linux system worked and I miss that.
it makes a lot of other things harder and I still haven’t found solutions i’m happy with for many of them. The tradeoff is worth it for now though
(again, not looking for advice.)
@b0rk it's a shame about the containers. i keep seeing vague signs that that situation over there is improving, but there doesn't seem to be anything straightforward or mainstream yet. 🤷
I find it ironic. I think the popularity of desktop docker in front line development had a giant push from the fact that mac OS is a very unforgiving environment for local backend work. And of course, "modern" containers arguably originated in FreeBSD, around the same period OS X gestated.
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