Isn’t mac more linux like supposedly?
I don’t want to feel like a mac dipshit tho :angery:
Mac. Any MacBook is also going to be better than any Windows laptop they’ll give you.
I agree.
In general, if gaming isnt a concern. MacOS easily outclasses Windows in almost every respect, from battery life to device quality to out of the box convenience + POSIX by default so it’s more familiar than Windows’ main character energy.
Just get Mac for the better screen alone, windows computers feel so cheap in comparison.
Counterpoint: get a windows so it will break down more and get you out of work sometimes
Let’s start our workday with an hour of updates.
It depends on your work to be honest. I was given the same choice and went with Windows because everyone else is using Windows, and most of the existing documentation etc. is done with Windows in mind. So if you’ll be like the only person using a Mac, just be aware you may be the first one to encounter various issues. But if that’s not a concern, then I’d probably go with the Mac.
My company rolled out macs as an option, didn’t make sure it was compatible with people’s job duties, and now there are a bunch of VMs that these SWE’s remote into from their Macs to do their work. Capitalism breeds efficiency bro I swear bro.
You should choose mac, I’m sorry to say.
You’ll get a familiar-feeling terminal and it’s not vibe-coded broken nonsense. The hardware is high-quality and the trackpad is actually quite nice (assuming you’re getting a laptop, I have no experience with mac mice).
My work macbook has never tried to force so-called “AI” in my face either, which I gather every windows machine does these days.
I almost never use mac, but I second this
I would have to use windows because every time i touch an iOS device i have no idea what the fuck i’m doing.
but the ribbon says NOT AS SMART AS THEY THINKI switched to macOS recently at work and it took like a week of googling shortcuts and how to do XYZ but now I feel pretty cozy with it. I suck at using my windows machine at home now though
Ba’al, and it’s not even a question.
You can never go wrong going with the storm gods*, and many scholars argue Molech wasn’t even a recognized god rather a type of sacrificial ritual.
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Ba’al was also used as the stand-in name for a number of different deities in the polytheistic early Hebraic faith.
Molech (מלך) was a ritual of child sacrifice. The root of the word is from “to promise” or “to sacrifice”, and most likely is a nominalized causative so it probably refers to the action and item being presented. The usage in the biblical text also is most consistent with this theory, so it seems Molech was both the term for the child sacrificed and for the action of sacrificing the child.
Maybe if the early hebraic polytheists wanted me to take their opinion on the matter seriously they would have written that shit down on a nice stone monolith LIKE THE GODS INTENDED
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E) Jokes aside, yeah I’ve been really into the bronze age cultic practices recently and am looking for more stuff to read
I don’t really have a lot of good sources, this is mostly all stuff I half-remember from asking my rabbi weird questions as a kid in yeshiva.
Here’s another fun one, the name of Mot (מות), the Ugaritic/Canaanite personification of death and god of the underworld, goes back to the Proto-Indo-European M-w-t, the word for death and the root of the modern English word Murder.
Sorry for late response, but how do you get from M-w-t to murder? I understand that the vowels are implied, and maybe see the route to “mort” but I don’t know any old hebrew to understand the relation between consonants.
English gets the connection through Latin in this case.
MacOS has its own annoyances and is quite opinionated, but Mac hardware is so amazing.
I have a M1 Pro and for work I had a M3 Pro. These things are beasts. You have no idea how it feels to do computationally intensive tasks with literally 0 fan noise because the fans just don’t need to spin.Also MacOS doesn’t require an account.
But bottom line is with customization and time you’ll get used to it. I’d pick Mac over Windows any day if I could choose only one.
Mac by a mile don’t even think about it 100% Mac. There are already like 50 comments saying Mac and I’m still commenting to say do a Mac. Windows is so, so bad.
I got no idea what you do, which makes most analysis questionable, but Mac (unix) is like 90% Linux (for the layman at least).
Also hardware is generally superior for most things that don’t require an Nvidia card (gaming/AI).
Uuh let’s say “data analysis” that is actually done in servers so I don’t actually need like a fancy video card as if I worked with say CAD for example
Crazy they won’t let you use Linux for that. Just IT being lazy (I’m IT). Get Windows, then boot it up with a Linux distro on a flash drive with persistent storage!
No company would allow a user to do that lol
Better to ask forgiveness than permission?
You’re getting sacked in the morning
Doubtful without a warning at least.
macOS will feel much closer to Linux since they are both unix-y.
Get a mac you silly willy. I hate to say it but my works provided m4 macbook pro is a fucking great machine other than the edges are really sharp and this is annoying.
You can get a windows if you’re a masochist i guess. Mmm love me a good office HP shitpoo with 3 minutes of battery and melts itself to death from the corporate bloatware that for some reason is never installed on the macs
I lwk get fits from having to use MacOS (/hj) because every time I’ve tried it, it seems to assume that I’m braindead or smth
Also I will always choose a good ThinkPad (even if it runs Windows. But properly managed enterprise Win is relatively OK) over a MacBook tbh
Also WSL 2.X is such a huge win, since you can actually use a good dev environment and don’t have to bother with Mac workarounds and other Apple exclusive BS
Some orgs block WSL due to IT security restrictions. It sucks being at one.
That sucks sm
The place is downright soul-destroying
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Ten years ago, I would have recommended windows, but I use the latest windows at work and it is complete dog shit. Sooo much bloat and clunky interfaces, it’s a pain in the ass to use.
I’ve never used MacOS before, but I can’t imagine they’ve fucked up as bad as windows.
It also depends what garbage is imaged onto the machines when you get it.
The windows laptops at my job have so much bloat from Win11, but also bloat from 30 different agents installed onto the machine from different 3rd-party vendors. Even sitting idle there were random spikes to 80% memory utilization.
It’s Mac no question.
The hardware is in a league of its own, and the Unix-like environment means you basically have the full power of Linux anyway - aside from deeply customizing your OS of course but you still have the everyday power user advantages of Unix-like shell.
The idea of using windows on a daily basis sounds like hell. I’d rather have a Chromebook.
I’d lean towards Mac. It’s still got some quite annoying aspects, but they’re mostly fairly minor compared to using Windows for tech work. The only thing that would lean me towards Win would be if there are specific tools/apps that work better on it that you need to use day to day.
