I - of all people
- have joined the macOS
army a while ago. In fact, I bought a MacBook Pro roughly two weeks ago to compensate my broken Gentoo installation. Let me explain why I did it and why I decided to buy a Mac:
As many of you probably know, I'm Operating-System-agnostic: I don't care about which one to use as long as it gets the particular job done. I have been a hobbyist (and, later, professional) software developer for most of my life as a computer user. While I do most of my development work on Windows (currently, Windows 10), I
need a working Linux, Unix or BSD machine to test my code's portability. Windows is a good platform - unless you want to write portable code on it blindly ...
My latest attempt in having a non-Windows desktop/dev machine was an Acer Aspire laptop with Gentoo Linux on it, and while I
adore Gentoo's flexibility (it won't force
any software on me, except Gentoo's own
emerge tool and the GCC compiler, at least for now), Acer's cheap laptops are exactly that: Cheap. Anyway, I accidentally broke my Gentoo with a tailored kernel update, and I lack free time currently.
So I thought: I need a durable, well-supported, portable machine (I regularly write down code/ideas/prose while travelling) that runs a relatively well POSIX-compatible operating system without annoying me too much.
And I hate to say that, but a MacBook is probably the perfect choice for that. I can even run Windows 10, a BSD and several Linuces on it
with Parallels Desktop which is affordable with the usual pre-Christmas coupons ...
macOS is not really
easy to use if you come from Windows / tiling window managers, and even having used Window Maker for a while won't help you much. But once you have configured (thus,
tamed) it, it won't get in your way anymore. I like it.
Sorry.