From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
I use Windows&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;macOS.<p>From a performance to value perspective you cannot beat Linux. Docker&#x2F;Microk8s the overhead is so low. Dev speed is leagues ahead the unfortunate circumstance of having to run Docker&#x2F;Minikube in a VM on Windows and macOS. Also filesystem IO is unreal compared to Windows at least.<p>Getting a refurb Thinkpad on ebay and having better compute hardware than a mac pro for half the price is also a nice cherry on top so to speak. That and the insane sales Lenovo has all the time for brand new machines is kind of hard to beat as well.<p>Next up is Windows from a hardware perspective. Same refurb thinkpad can dual boot without issue.<p>Then lastly macOS. I have had a mac since 2011. I am having a hard time with the direction Apple is going with their laptops.<p>I have all 3 and they all have their merits, but I find myself using Windows&#x2F;Linux at home exclusively and macOS at work and I don&#x27;t mind the context switch.<p>To each their own!<p>With the uncertain future of mac with their potential switch to ARM and not shipping python and ruby by default, I see some drawbacks to the dev ecosystem. I know brew will package a ruby version to handle this but I do worry about the ARM switch.<p>Linux used to be quite difficult, but I stuck with Ubuntu and the UX&#x2F;UI has improved so much :)