Exactly this. Apple hardware might be nice, but the reason developers use OSX&#x2F;Linux is for the software ecosystem. A lot of really useful tools do not work properly on Windows. And when they do, the supporting documentation, tutorials, and stackoverflow answers are lacking on Windows.<p>An example: A few years ago, the guide to install Django on Windows was a three-page tutorial, but for OSX all you had to do was run a single script. It was clear the devs had put much more effort optimizing and simplifying the OSX route vs the Windows one.<p>I used to use Windows for dev but after two years of getting annoyed when people kept recommending tools that only work on *nix, I bought a mac and don&#x27;t regret that decision.