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OSX and overall better dev experience?



Where's dmesg, kvm, namespaces, cgroups, and package management built in?

What about inodes and cpu spikes even running node on osx? Let alone doing that inside a container.

Nah. OSX is long gone for "better dev experience". Linux always wins.


Not at the company I work for.


On the one hand I'm kind of jealous, but on the other it's really fun :D


> better dev experience

what constitutes a better dev experience?


From just off the top of my head

- Same text editing shortcuts that work consistently throughout all apps in the system including your editor/IDE, browser, and terminal.

- iTerm2 having so called "legacy full screen mode" that I use exclusively. (I've been searching for something similar for windows/linux for quite some time).

- The general system polish and usability. This is not directly "dev experience", but it's something you interact with while doing development throughout the day and it's just hands down a lot better than anything linux has atm.


> - iTerm2 having so called "legacy full screen mode" that I use exclusively. (I've been searching for something similar for windows/linux for quite some time).

Is that about disabling animations? That can be done globally on windows and linux desktop environments.


No, it's about window being in a non-exclusive fullscreen mode. It's fullscreen, but at the same time can be on the background underneath other windows. Looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/YNzcA0w

Essentially, I always have terminal in the background even when I'm not working acting as my wallpaper.


Ah, that's basically a frameless maximized window. It requires some tinkering but there are tools to force that behavior on other applications; for both windows and various linux window managers.




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