• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Our Mac colleague is literally the only one in the dev team having constant troubles, constantly spinning up VMs to get stuff working.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, if you have a mixed dev team then I’m sure the odd ones out are gonna have the most trouble.

      My point was more that if you have a team of all Macs or a team of all Linux, I’m much more confident in stuff working on everyone’s machine in the Mac scenario.

      Even if you stretch it to “the Mac users get to customize the hell out of their machines, and the Linux users only do the minimum to get a fully functional dev environment”, I think the Macs end up in a more consistent state.

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        Yep, it’s mostly just about consistency across the dev team. This is coming from someone with multiple Linux machines for personal use and hobby projects:

        At my first job, devs all had Macs. There was the occasional guy with Linux but he was always had trouble because all the scripts and dev tools were made for Mac, so he had to constantly be rewriting and modifying them to work on his machine, and wasted time doing so. Nobody used Windows for development since it wasn’t Microsoft, lol.

        But, when the Apple Silicon Macs started appearing, that’s a different story…