Obviously Ubuntu wants to push Ubuntu but this is a fair take. Notably, outside of iOS/macOS development, a vast majority of enterprise developers that do use macOS are going to leverage the GNU tools, typically via Homebrew. So while they may not be using LINUX itself, the tools and user experience are all the same.
Even Apple leverages Homebrew for package management and advertises to its devs.
As much as I love my MacBook I’d like a laptop with the same kind of hardware running Ubuntu or Fedora even more. I have a desktop just for that but it sits in the office where I never go so it’s pretty much just a box that I connect to when I need to test something on x86 as opposed to ARM.
I chose Ubuntu for my desktop/laptop because I chose Ubuntu for our servers. While we now have the servers setup such that we hardly touch them directly, I've found it to be incredibly valuable to be using the same technologies, tools, and processes daily on desktop as I need on our servers.
It boggles my mind how many organisations I've worked for that almost exclusively develop for Linux deployment use Windows as their primary desktop environment. It causes nothing but trouble. We've got Windows if we need it, I'm a big proponent of the best tool for the job - and what the company paying wants! - but Linux is our primary desktop environment.
Obviously Ubuntu wants to push Ubuntu but this is a fair take. Notably, outside of iOS/macOS development, a vast majority of enterprise developers that do use macOS are going to leverage the GNU tools, typically via Homebrew. So while they may not be using LINUX itself, the tools and user experience are all the same.
Even Apple leverages Homebrew for package management and advertises to its devs.
As much as I love my MacBook I’d like a laptop with the same kind of hardware running Ubuntu or Fedora even more. I have a desktop just for that but it sits in the office where I never go so it’s pretty much just a box that I connect to when I need to test something on x86 as opposed to ARM.
I chose Ubuntu for my desktop/laptop because I chose Ubuntu for our servers. While we now have the servers setup such that we hardly touch them directly, I've found it to be incredibly valuable to be using the same technologies, tools, and processes daily on desktop as I need on our servers.
It boggles my mind how many organisations I've worked for that almost exclusively develop for Linux deployment use Windows as their primary desktop environment. It causes nothing but trouble. We've got Windows if we need it, I'm a big proponent of the best tool for the job - and what the company paying wants! - but Linux is our primary desktop environment.