Yet their computers are still massively popular with developers.
As for the barrier, it is in the software and app ecosystem.
As for the barrier, it is in the software and app ecosystem.
My point with the software is that most software people use to create software/apps is increasingly created with web technologies / electron apps, so the native app ecosystem on a desktop machine is increasingly weakening as a moat.
- Unix-like, developing on Windows is pure torture
- Don't waste my time with configurations, drivers and other crap, I want a machine that I can be productive with out of the box. Take my money if you have to, but I don't want to edit Xorg.conf ever again.
You can talk about polish all day, but no machine that doesn't satisfy both is even close to appealing for a majority of developers in my experience.
You are right about the native app ecosystem being less of a blocker, but that's in line with my point.