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Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers (www.jetbrains.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by starman to c/linux
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Source: JetBrains' "The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023" survey

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cannot imagine doing this for my work. I need a machine I do not need to worry about breaking or suddenly becoming incompatible with the next update.

[–] Piatro 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait are you talking about macos or Linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bad, it was meant to be a response to the comment about people switching from macOS to Linux.

[–] varsock 4 points 1 year ago

getting a developer account with redhat you can have up to 10(?) instances of RedHat Linux LTS. super stable, is run on servers for many critical serves. Or just use rocky linux (bug for bug compatible with red hat) and establish a roll back procedure. There are rollback options at the filesystem level so you can snapshot before an update.

I use fedora and I don't typically have any issues and that is considered bleeding edge.

Macs have too many guardrails that get in the way which can be as disruptive as something breaking bc you need to work around it. But I am acknowledging that it is use case dependant.