That many people willingly moved to OSX? Why? Was it a graphics company?
Put me in front of a Linux desktop, and I can just start working.
Put me in front of a Windows desktop, give me 30 minutes to set up what I need, and I can start working.
Put me in front of a Mac, and come back to me still yelling at it five hours later.
I'm sure I could learn if it was worth the time to me, but I definitely wouldn't argue that it's superior (for me personally at least).
This confused me a lot as even though I wasn't even close to his level at that time I had no problems living with my Linux machines while my Mac laptop used to drive me crazy every day with some nonsense.
Turns out it is extremely individual. Maybe it is because I'm a keyboard person. When I work efficiently I feel I rarely touch the touchpad. I use fullscreen a lot, I sometimes use virtual desktops a lot etc.
I've always used i3/Sway/Pop!_Shell, or just dealt with windows subpar tiling. I'm picky about terminals as well, so that may have something to do with it. Although Mac's shell is nicer than windows (obviously), I can't stand the built in terminal app.
| 22 <- linux
| 22
| 1111121111 <- macos
| 1 22
|1 22
|122
|000000000000 <- windows
-------------The only good news would be... if apple decides to "reverse course" questing for non-discerning-consumers, all the "crazy ones" will breathe a sigh of relief and buy a pile of new hardware.
I remember when apple gave up on its "apple-inward-looking" powerpc hardware and shipped intel machines. All of a sudden apple machines could run windows too, people could see more possibilities buying apple and the market for apple hardware became much larger very quickly.
Speaking as a web dev on a company-issued Mac, running my local dev environment inside a Parallels Linux VM. I asked to switch to Linux but was turned down.
(Now if Microsoft released LSW, i.e. an Ubuntu-based distro with Windows syscall support via a KVM-hosted NT kernel, I very well might opt for that instead.)
It's not all roses, there is a noticeable performance hit with the filesystem in both WSL and the windows layer. I wouldn't use it for production, and why would you, but for development, it's fine and largely not a problem. If you had to regularly deal with a large numbers of files, say log parsing or compiling, it's probably not going to work.
Besides recent OS X SSL library issues, I've haven't ever run in problems developing on a Mac and have used one for the better part of 10 years now. Can't say the same with developing on Linux (almost exclusively on the graphics side of things, but that's a problem when it's your primary machine).