My next Mac might be the last
It&#x27;s unfortunate that some of what made MacOS great for developers is now being phased out in favor of features that are lifted out of iOS. Apple has made developer-hostile moves over the years that seem out of line with it&#x27;s old &#x27;think different&#x27; ethos. I hope Apple takes this customer segment seriously and reverses course here, but I&#x27;m not super hopeful.<p>The real problem is that there isn&#x27;t a reasonable alternative. Windows is out of the question for me due to not being a POSIX-based OS. WSL isn&#x27;t integrated deeply enough and is still a pain in the ass to use coming from MacOS. I experimented with using a mostly stock Xubuntu setup for a bit and also found the user experience to be really subpar. Call me old, but I have no interest in dealing with the amount of configuration and tweaking necessary to be productive in a Linux environment.<p>Ultimately, I&#x27;m just going to stick it out with MacOS.