Return of the Mac (2005)
Before the inevitable comments regarding Apple&#x27;s moves with macOS and how the hacker &#x27;tide&#x27; is supposedly turning back against Apple, I think I&#x27;ll chime in with my two cents. I switched from my 2015 MBP to a Surface Book 2 at the end of 2019, and switched back to my same, six-year-old MBP just a few months ago. To keep things short, whilst WSL puts Windows miles ahead of where it once was, I find that the same old rough-edges still remain.<p>I often dock between standard-DPI displays and portable mode (with the high-DPI&#x2F;&#x27;retina&#x27; display.) I first noticed that Windows doesn&#x27;t correctly handle DPI switching with window borders, Explorer, and notifications back in 2019 (the old 2x scaling level remains when switching from portable to docked), and filed a feedback with the built-in app on Windows. I worked around this by killing dwm.exe and explorer.exe every time I docked my Surface. This issue was still present earlier this year, and deciding I had enough of dealing with all these little Windows &#x27;quirks&#x27;, wherever they arose, I switched back to my old Mac.<p>It turns out that SIP and Gatekeeper aren&#x27;t nearly as much of a problem as I was led to believe, neither of these features have hampered me once. The Big Sur interface changes, whilst I thought I&#x27;d never get used to them, have actually grown on me. Since switching back, I&#x27;ve discovered a lot of quality native apps that simply have no analog on Windows–OmniFocus stands out here. And as always, Homebrew still exists and works just as well as it always has for most of my *nix related tasks.<p>Hearing about the M1 performance improvements, I can see myself staying on Mac for quite some time yet–I&#x27;ll upgrade to an M1 MacBook Air once this 2015 MBP (six years old!) kicks the bucket.<p>Edit: For some context, I&#x27;m mainly a .NET developer. .NET Core&#x2F;5 is a game-changer for cross-platform and development is first class on really any system nowadays. I&#x27;ve settled on JetBrains Rider for my IDE and find myself generally happier than I was with VS on Windows.