More productive because I don't spend time fighting all of the little silly OSX to Linux incompatibilities in a dev environment. Things like:
- sed / grep flags
- path issues compiling some C module or node module
- homebrew missing obscure package
These aren't things that kill productivity on the regular but once a month I found myself going down some rabbit hole or another fixing things like that.
I develop a range of stuff from the Kubernetes ecosystem, etcd, frontend software, and the occasional embedded side project.
Also, I rarely use any OSX native applications outside of a browser, password manager, and music app anymore. So, none of these workflows changed and some improved since now I have identical apps on my phone and laptop thanks to Android.
fair point, I can't tell anything other than that I was so far lucky. I do a lot of web/node development and none of the issues was yet related to OSX (for the whole 4-5 years I'm on mac).
you're 100% correct that apple has crippled version of some tools but it's possible to replace them from brew but I think I know where you're heading - it's probably just easier to use linux when you're doing these things - just like I was switching to mac when I wanted to do node.
BTW: I was switching from windows, not from linux, I actually think linux is fine and I'm happily using it on other machines, just not on this one :-)
I develop a range of stuff from the Kubernetes ecosystem, etcd, frontend software, and the occasional embedded side project.
Also, I rarely use any OSX native applications outside of a browser, password manager, and music app anymore. So, none of these workflows changed and some improved since now I have identical apps on my phone and laptop thanks to Android.