Is it winning if you are the only one playing the game?
Brag about this to an average Windows or Mac user and they will go "huh?" and "what is Linux?"
> Is it winning if you are the only one playing the game?
Depending on what you mean with "the game", I'd say even more so.
MS/Apple used to villify or ridicule Linux, now they need to distribute it to make their own product whole, because it turns out having an Open Source general purpose OS is so convenient and useful it's been utilized in lots of interesting ways - containers, for example - that the proprietary OS implementations simply weren't available for. I'd say it's a remarkable development.
By that logic, this feature and WSL shouldn't exist.
They exist because linux server developers would rather use windows or mac as their primary desktop OS rather than linux. That's not a flex for linux desktop. Quite the opposite.
Equally, they exist because mac and windows users would rather use Linux for their server operating system than anything else and that’s not a flex for Apple or Microsoft either.
In my experience, it isn't Linux server developers who decide what platform their organizations provision on their employees' devices. That's up to management and IT departments who prefer the simplicity of employees using the same systems they do, and prefer to utilize the competencies in macOS/Windows administration their IT departments have.
Trust me I’d rather use Linux than macOS, that’s after 2.5 years of full time work on a beefy MacBook Pro. The problem is that it isn’t possible to buy a machine as good as the MacBook which runs Linux. Asahi is not ready and won’t be for years, if ever.
Asahi is not that bad, did you try it out? I’ve been building a Sway configuration from scratch on it since two weeks and it’s working pretty well. Did a ton of administrative stuff with it yesterday without much trouble other than the key bindings being a bit weird coming from macOS.
Last time I checked M3 support is not coming anytime soon. M1 is kinda sorta maybe good enough sometimes? But it wouldn't be my main dev box.
I am on my third employer in 5 years and every dev team I can across that had the choice picked Linux.
I personally don't know a dev worth his salt who'd prefer windows
The flex is that you could have just used "server developers" and it would have meant the exact same thing.