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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•No Microslop for me
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    6 months ago

    I agree, an anecdotal experience is not a substantial justification, but my experience was definitely 30+ issues in just a few year span. The entire organization just suffered through the pain - developers didn’t have an opinion or preference on workflow. There’s definitely a blind bias towards the ecosystem, even if the experiences aren’t as bad as mine.

    That being said, I’m not alone in this. Funny enough, this just popped up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440759

    The DNS issue I had back 6 or 7 years ago, a similar issue has now popped up. Each update is just a wave of frustration and issues. The comments are on tangents of other issues with the new release. The top comment says “Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS” and I feel seen.

    As for Docker, it’s not a cpu architecture issue, you’re almost always using x86. MacOS (and windows for that matter) don’t have the Linux Kernel features necessary to support Docker (or containers for that matter) regardless of architecture, so there’s a virtualization layer (hypervisor) to make them work. This typically will have cpu, memory, and file system overhead (expecially memory and FS). Can you develop with docker containers? Absolutely. Is it as efficient as linux? Not even close. Sometimes, I’m running between 4-10 containers which runs flawlessly on my Linux system because I don’t need to worry about a virtualization layer.

    All I’m saying is that MacOS is not the development haven a lot of people are making it out to be. I hold both MacOS and Windows in contempt when it comes to being developer geared systems.

  • Lulzagna@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•No Microslop for me
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    6 months ago

    Ya, it’s wonderful having your entire organization not able to share their screen one day, and there’s no package manager, and needing several multi gig xcode binaries to install node dependencies and they change on new releases and it’s not transparent at all, and docker runs like shit because it’s virtualized, and everything is a memory hog. That’s just what I remember - I used to have a text document where I tracked every issue, I think it was almost 100 items long.

    I absolutely fucking hate Windows, but doing web development on a Mac is a fucking nightmare and takes the cake. I’ve been using Linux for over a decade now and will never look back.

    Edit: oh I just remembered the time osx broke all of our local development urls and we had to change them

  • Lulzagna@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AIEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If you think that Windows 7 was overrated, you’re naive and completely oblivious to the state of Windows during that era. XP came out in 2001 and Vista in 2007, during a time personal computer improvements were exploding. That’d be like 20 years nowadays. Vista was a bloated and slow mess that even modern hardware could barely run efficiently. Windows 7 righted the wrongs and made massive performance improvements that Vista lacked, and not just for modern hardware at the time, but legacy hardware was revived.

    Arguing that Windows 7 doesn’t support modern hardware is so asinine and a straw-man argument. No one was making an argument that Windows 7 is a good OS today, not a single person. What we are arguing is that every OS since 7 has been a half-baked mess with tons of bugs and annoyances.

    “I don’t see anything it does better than w11”. You think the lack of unified interface is equal to windows 7? You think the disaster of a start menu is equal to windows 7? You think forced updates is better? You think the abundance of telemetry is better?

    Honestly, have you even used Windows 7?