What actually started making me consider going to Linux was the awfully bad market of browser extensions and apps on macOS – everything remotely good is paid and I am sick of it having a macOS machine is like buying a game which is then also filled with micro-transactions. I know it’s made with security in mind but they are a corporation and I am sure they got tempted to monetize that info already. Also that thing with hashing every single program you run and sending it to their servers – I don’t like it. Maybe I am getting old but I am getting sick of that treadmill.ĭon’t get me wrong, Apple are IMO generally on the right path (even software-wise, and here’s where many people would loudly disagree with me) – but they started slipping. Using homebrew commands and various other trickery you can make macOS be very close to Linux… but I am paid to work on apps, not chase a constantly moving target. Battery life is out of this world, performance too, and the damned things almost never turn on their fans to audible levels! I can’t say no to that.Īll of that is true and I am not seeing any other company doing anything even remotely good as Apple on these fronts.īUT… and that’s not a small “but”, sadly… they started to diverge from their UNIX roots too much, to the point that you need scripts and specialized knowledge for both macOS and Linux now, and I don’t like it.

They are the uncontested kings of the laptop market today.

I like how snappy the machines are (usually) and I know for a fact that I will buy second generation MacBook Pro M1. I like the displays, a lot, and that will not change. I know is just waiting around the corner to scream at me “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” but I started getting weary of the Mac ecosystem as well.

Ubuntu vs mac for programming