I agree, an anecdotal experience is not a substantial justification, but my experience was definitely 30+ issues in just a few year span. The entire organization just suffered through the pain - developers didn’t have an opinion or preference on workflow. There’s definitely a blind bias towards the ecosystem, even if the experiences aren’t as bad as mine.
The DNS issue I had back 6 or 7 years ago, a similar issue has now popped up. Each update is just a wave of frustration and issues. The comments are on tangents of other issues with the new release. The top comment says “Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS” and I feel seen.
As for Docker, it’s not a cpu architecture issue, you’re almost always using x86. MacOS (and windows for that matter) don’t have the Linux Kernel features necessary to support Docker (or containers for that matter) regardless of architecture, so there’s a virtualization layer (hypervisor) to make them work. This typically will have cpu, memory, and file system overhead (expecially memory and FS). Can you develop with docker containers? Absolutely. Is it as efficient as linux? Not even close. Sometimes, I’m running between 4-10 containers which runs flawlessly on my Linux system because I don’t need to worry about a virtualization layer.
All I’m saying is that MacOS is not the development haven a lot of people are making it out to be. I hold both MacOS and Windows in contempt when it comes to being developer geared systems.
I agree, an anecdotal experience is not a substantial justification, but my experience was definitely 30+ issues in just a few year span. The entire organization just suffered through the pain - developers didn’t have an opinion or preference on workflow. There’s definitely a blind bias towards the ecosystem, even if the experiences aren’t as bad as mine.
That being said, I’m not alone in this. Funny enough, this just popped up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440759
The DNS issue I had back 6 or 7 years ago, a similar issue has now popped up. Each update is just a wave of frustration and issues. The comments are on tangents of other issues with the new release. The top comment says “Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS” and I feel seen.
As for Docker, it’s not a cpu architecture issue, you’re almost always using x86. MacOS (and windows for that matter) don’t have the Linux Kernel features necessary to support Docker (or containers for that matter) regardless of architecture, so there’s a virtualization layer (hypervisor) to make them work. This typically will have cpu, memory, and file system overhead (expecially memory and FS). Can you develop with docker containers? Absolutely. Is it as efficient as linux? Not even close. Sometimes, I’m running between 4-10 containers which runs flawlessly on my Linux system because I don’t need to worry about a virtualization layer.
All I’m saying is that MacOS is not the development haven a lot of people are making it out to be. I hold both MacOS and Windows in contempt when it comes to being developer geared systems.