Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X
I know the OTA dismissed Windows, but when I switched from OSX to Windows a couple of years ago, I found Scott Hanselman&#x27;s &quot;Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows&quot; [1] to be indispensable. I&#x27;ve been doing Rails work on Windows since switching, but ymmv depending on what your workflow and toolchain are.<p>I also found that there were a lot of workarounds&#x2F;alternatives to software&#x2F;tools that I <i>thought</i> I would miss on Mac. I&#x27;ve managed to find pretty much everything I needed and&#x2F;or realized I could easily live without the stuff I couldn&#x27;t find alternatives for.<p>Having said all of that, if you have a dependency on something like XCode because you&#x27;re maintaining an iOS app, you&#x27;re kinda stuck with a Mac. My experience with Hackintoshes is that even if you buy the right hardware off the latest Hackintosh compatibility list, it&#x27;s still a bit of a time suck. Alternatively, you could also run OSX in VMWare Workstation&#x2F;Player, but you don&#x27;t get graphics acceleration and some OSX software won&#x27;t run properly in a VM.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hanselman.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hanselman.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDev...</a>