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@carl_dungeon @flakpanzer Personally an apple job would be even lower on my list than a Windows job (which is already a deal-breaker to me)
Agreed. The average Windows laptop has three critical redeeming qualities, over a similar Mac:
If you value getting paid I’d highly suggest not tampering with any computer that isn’t yours.
Or at least WSL so you're testing on a LinuxKernel.
Yeah. Joking aside, WSL wins over Mac, for me. It's not perfect, but it's closer.
@MajorHavoc Plus it can even be quite ecologically good, the parts are not serialized so you cannot replace them yourself, it almost feels as if you own it (especially once you own the software on it)
Why? Having used all three, currently using all three in some capacity...I'd put them in order of Linux, Mac, then windows. At least with Mac you have a *nix like system with things like zsh, coreutils, homebrew, and iterm2. You can even set up tiling window managers.
Not to mention they are fantastic pieces of hardware and if you are doing any dev work with AI/ml the metal cores are sweet.