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I'm at the point of considering a switch in the other direction.

I love how seamlessly wsl works and gives you a real Linux environment. Writing on my screen (surface pro) is great too.

However, I'm mad that I'm getting ads (preinstalled Candy crush) on a Windows pro machine. Also, os x is much more privacy oriented overall, and it's the de facto developer machine.

The only reason I'm hesitating is that although osx is Unix, I'm scared I may miss a full Linux installation which you have with wsl.

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I've been using macOS for the most part of the last decade. I also use Windows, but only for gaming.

For me the BIG problem with macOS is actually the hardware. When Apple gets it right it's awesome, but this hasn't been the case for the last 5 or so years (with some exceptions).

The fact that there is no competition for macOS hardware ends up in very surreal situations such as overpriced broken products or design decisions that make absolutely no sense.

If I had to buy a new laptop now I'm not sure I'd buy an Apple product.

Same issue here. I'm a Linux user but recently got a new laptop and thought I should at least log in once to Windows before installing Linux.

I was welcomed by candy crush tiles and other questionable stuff. It is totally incomprehensible to me how a machine that costs almost $2k has candy crush as the first tile the user ever sees. I don't think Microsoft cares anymore.

I think it's just lack of communication/vision shared between departments. Everybody is trying to maximize their respective outcome without caring about the overall product. At least that's what it seems like to me.

I tend to SSH into an AWS box most of the time or use a Linux installation inside a vagrant VM when I have to use something Linux. Both of these are much smoother than on WSL/Windows.

However most of the built in packages and stuff that comes from brew is exactly the same as on Linux. Perhaps 99.999% of stuff is totally portable.

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