2 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

I haven’t used Mac for 5 years now (except my last job for 6 months because they only support mac developer environment). For my 8 years at Reddit, my first work laptop was a Macbook Pro, but that’s only because I didn’t know I have a choice when onboarding. Then, after 2 years, when I finally had the chance to refresh my laptop, I switched to a Dell laptop with Linux. The Dell laptop was huge and heavy and not as premium as a Mac. But the software experience was just so much better. Then, on the 2nd refresh, I switched to a Chromebook, relying on Crostini for development. Then I left Reddit and joined Shopify. Shopify only provide Macs for engineers as their development environment only supports Mac. So I was “forced” to use Mac again. Its software experience is just so bad (and that’s just one example). Even their trackpad is worse than I remembered, and theirs are supposed to be best in the industry? Anyways, 6 months later, I decided to join a startup, and had this conversaion…

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