Below is why after a month of giving it a chance, I ended up bringing my personal windows machine in instead. On my first day, they gave me a beautiful iMac to use. I worked as a front end web developer through out college, I developed on LAMP stacks (Linux, apache, mysql, php). And those people would usually come in the next day with windows installed on their macbooks.
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Most people had windows machines.on the first day of almost every class the professor would announce "windows users watch me install the dev environment on my machine on the projector, Mac users, there is a written guide, try to figure of out, if not see me after class. I am a software developer and made it through college (graduated in 2014) with a windows laptop. Yes OSX is Unix based, but it excludes most of the GNU utilities that make super users and devs love Linux in the first place. No way, I mean macbooks are great for development, but they are not "high-end Linux machines", they are high end laptops running a dumbed down version of Linux. Tech Support - dedicated to solving problems and helping others out.Īndroid - Android Operating system and its peripherals discussions.Īpple - Apple devices, services discussions. Your Phone - dedicated to Microsoft's Your Phone Android/PC app and its news and discussions. Mobileīing - dedicated to Microsoft's Bing web search and its news and discussions. This subreddit is suitable for both Office warriors and newbies. Surface - dedicated to Surface powerful laptop/tablet and discussions around it and its peripherals.Įxcel - dedicated to Excel, powerful program of Office suite. Xbox One - dedicated to Xbox One console and its peripherals, news and discussions. Xbox Insiders - Official Xbox Insiders community Windows Redesign - a subreddit for design concepts and Windows mods Windows Insiders - dedicated to Windows Insider program, WI builds troubleshooting. Windows Mobile - dedicated to Windows Mobile OS and discussions about it.
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