Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?
Might as well right why they are switching from Linux to OS X, Windows or something else.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Ubuntu up until 10.10 (if I&#x27;m not mistaken) and then Arch (for about 4 years). In the last two years I&#x27;ve gone from Android+Linux to full Apple.<p>The reasons were:<p>1) At the time there was no notebook that could compare with MBPr (late 2013 in my case). Yes, you could have find some with the same hardware and even same size\weight, but I haven&#x27;t hold a single one of them that wouldn&#x27;t creak. Macbooks are build to be with you all them time. Other companies build them to be compact alternative to your desktop. From what I&#x27;ve seen - nothing really changed since then.<p>2) Free\opensouce\etc shit. Don&#x27;t get me wrong - free is good, opensource is awesome, freedom is what all people need. But not the price it comes to your sometimes. Sometime free can be more expensive, opensource can be more binding. One of the reasons to live linux was the number of forks of all the libs and utils in the system. Every now and then some team splits or somebody decides his new chrome and shiny fork is something people need and voila! you have a zoo of this shit. Because the very next day some projects will split because they can&#x27;t come to agreement about what lib to be using now.<p>This is not a bliss, this is madness. When it comes to my user experience - I don&#x27;t care what lib does mpv uses and can use, or... whatever. I only care if it does the job as well as before and I don&#x27;t what all of the said forks in my system, this is a mess.<p>3) As soon as I got my MBPr I realised I want to try the so called BIG A ECOSYSTEM and bought an iPhone 6 on my birthday (my bd was on the same day the phone came to my country).<p>I was amazed by the level of comfort. Everything works out of the box, the god damn design is always consistent[1], no need to dive into python (or something else) to seamlessly use your phone with your computer. Yes, this comes at a price - without jailbreaking you are tied to your apps, services etc. You can&#x27;t just upload your music to your phone via usb and some other things, but there are solutions. ONE TIME SOLUTIONS, LINUX!, not one week prior the next update ones.