MAC VS Windows
Why majority SDE , Data engineers , tech guys prefer mac over windows List your tech reason in detail please , in comment Planning to switch to mac from windows
Unix base works well with open source, privacy, M1 chips improve compile time
I'm over it. Since WSL2, I prefer Windows over Mac. Windows 11 has tight Wayland and GPU integration.
It's literal dog shit. I bought an M1, and it's extremely blurry when connected to my 1440p monitor, no matter the cable or port. This was after it took 3 months for them to get it to me. Techs answer was to just buy an Apple monitor, Fuck Apple. Returned that piece of shit and got a Framework.
CryingPan
Student
2 years ago
Was it a 32" 1440p monitor ?
Mac os scaling is for 110 ppi or 220 ppi
Eg -If you're using 4k 27" (~163 ppi) , mac os will render the screen to a virtual canvas and scale it down then to your non native resolution ..
Resulting in blurry pixels , more gpu use , more memory usage
https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/
You just bought a bad monitor with incompatible scaling. MacOS’ immaculate text rendering will make anything else look blurry unless the PPI is same.
M1 has horrible battery life, apps frequently push the machine to out of memory, and many apps aren't even compatible.Performance should be measured in real world usage not benchmarks
Unix based OS so it's more similar to our Linux deploy targets than Windows is. Also MacOS doesn't come with nearly as much bloated bullshit. Windows literally has candy crush pre installed and ads in the start menu. MacBooks have very premium build quality, they're sturdy and good materials.
Maybe if you do infra work. Everything else is done locally on the machine.
Lol. There's a bazillion bloat shit on Mac you can't get rid off. Like, there's a Chess app on Mac. You can't remove it. Or their Music, Home, and a long list of other useless apps.Nothing like that on Windows. You can uninstall pretty much anything.
It's a *Nix machine that just works.The biggest problem is then cost, but that's the company's problem, so it's not an actual problem.
What does M1 perform well on? Top level AMD chips will beat it on performance every day. M1 is ARM base, better on power.
Still lots of errors on M1 chips. Random app crashes and such. It’s not perfect yet.
My MacBook Pro was a Godsend as a UI Dev. Code compile time, CRUD ops for heavy applications were super fast. Loved the graphics and Mac UI. Now, with a new team I’m handed a Windows where saving a single file puts the system in overload. How times change.
Windows has a lot more bloat but allows you to really stretch your tech joints if you know what you are doing.
DonaldTrump
Student
2 years ago
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Stealth
2 years ago
I have worked and coded on both Mac and Windows, I loved Mac due to its smoothness but also as my profile requires working with various libraries I faced issues due MacOS.
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