I think Apple is going to lose that edge with developers as WSL and its ecosystem keep improving. There’s no Apple servers, so a lot of that code they’re writing runs on Linux, but Macs only look like Linux. They actually work differently, and you have to use homebrew and a lot of tools are different. But I can load up just about any distro with WSL, so all the packages install the same. Add on top of that the difficulty of making Mac work with AD and having a different version of Microsoft Office. Plus their licensing terms for virtualization are terrible, and they don’t make multi-session servers anymore, so developing IOS apps usually means you have a small fleet of Mac Minis instead of some nice enterprise hardware.
I think Linux for M-series chips will be viable before WSL is.
The actual hardware combination of build quality, performance, and battery life still blows the rest of the market out of the water, and even if it weren’t perfectly competitive with actually comparable windows machines, professional users are much less price sensitive than general consumers.
I think Apple is going to lose that edge with developers as WSL and its ecosystem keep improving. There’s no Apple servers, so a lot of that code they’re writing runs on Linux, but Macs only look like Linux. They actually work differently, and you have to use homebrew and a lot of tools are different. But I can load up just about any distro with WSL, so all the packages install the same. Add on top of that the difficulty of making Mac work with AD and having a different version of Microsoft Office. Plus their licensing terms for virtualization are terrible, and they don’t make multi-session servers anymore, so developing IOS apps usually means you have a small fleet of Mac Minis instead of some nice enterprise hardware.
I thought this too until every Windows patch started turning my computer into an ad machine.
WSLn is nice but using a Windows 11 machine is starting to suck big time.
I think Linux for M-series chips will be viable before WSL is.
The actual hardware combination of build quality, performance, and battery life still blows the rest of the market out of the water, and even if it weren’t perfectly competitive with actually comparable windows machines, professional users are much less price sensitive than general consumers.