Should i get a mac or pc for engineering and coding

#Should i get a mac or pc for engineering and coding mac os x#
#Should i get a mac or pc for engineering and coding upgrade#

Sometimes compilation instructions for OSX 10.5 will work on 10.6, sometimes they won't. Then you have to download source and compile it (welcome to 1980's). If you're not lucky, there is no MacPort for software you're looking for. Want Qt? Reserve 5 hours for compilation. It downloads the package and compiles it. Installing MacPorts feels like Linux 15 years ago.

installing open source software: if you're lucky there's MacPort for it.

Apparently I'm not the only one switching from OSX back to Linux.ДЄll the tools you take for granted in Linux are either non-existent or painful to get to work on OSX: I've been using MacOS X for about half a year on my dev machine and I definitely wound not recommend it to developer, other than iPhone/OSX developers (they don't have a choice, do they?). I tried to find things that can be done on Mac but not on Windows with the same level of ease, but I couldn't. If you develop daily on Mac and prefer Mac over anything else, can you give me a merit that Mac has over Windows/Linux? Maybe something you can do on Mac that cannot be done in Windows/Linux with the same level of ease?

#Should i get a mac or pc for engineering and coding mac os x#

However, I don't see what strong merits Mac OS X has over Windows. I understand why people, who are working in multimedia/entertainment industry, would use Mac OS X.

#Should i get a mac or pc for engineering and coding upgrade#

Is it because you need to upgrade Windows every 2 years (less backwards compatible)?

Is it the applications that are only available on Mac OS X? Does that really make it worth it? Although Windows is not nix based, you can pretty much develop on any platform or language, except Cocoa/Objective-C. Some might argue that Mac OS X got the beautiful UI and is nix based, but Linux can do that. I know that there are programmers who prefer Windows and Linux, but I'm asking the programmers who would just use Mac OS X and nothing else, because they think Mac OS X is the greatest fit for programmers. However, I'm still having a hard time understanding why programmers enthusiastically choose Mac OS X over Windows and Linux?

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