IT professional here with 20+ years work experience. Not once have I ever met another tech that liked Apple. Personally, I despise them. Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price. And yes, I have seen viruses on Macs.
They’re just really good at advertising to people who don’t understand technology.
Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price.
From the user perspective, enterprise managed Windows is locked down, too, and somehow less reliable.
Most of the software engineers I know in FAANG and similar tier companies use Macbooks to program. Poke around a coffee shop in the bay area during a weekday and look around.
And personally, I switched to Mac about 15 years ago mainly because dependency management and the shell made more sense to me coming from Linux. Windows has always been trash, and most other non-Apple OEMs make the actual physical laptop experience worse (hinges, behavior on closing the lid, trackpad behavior and size, power management, display quality in both brightness and pixel density, webcam/audio behavior).
I have no problem running apps from friends or myself on my macs?
Shh, don’t stop them when they’re acting superior
Most proper on here don’t know the difference between MacOS and iOS, which makes them actually like the caricature of Apple users they mock.
Linux experience :
I want to delete my entire filesystem
Sure thing! It’ll be gone by the time you rebootThat’s kind of dated. All the times I’ve done this recently it’s gone seconds after I screwed up.
Linux experience:
What really is a virus? Software is software, bro 🤷♂️
Chill brah, it’s just files
i run custom apps on my mac all the time. i write some of them.
The elusive hacker known as 4chan!
I’ve never used a Mac, can you not just write your own app and run it?
I do that on windows all the time.
You can. You can also install other package managers like brew.
I write things for my Appla laptop all the time. And download whatever I want.
