This was also my experience when using a Mac at my last job. It was a Mac shop, so I had to get one for it. It was as unstable as Vista ... at least 3 times in one week, it couldn't handle task switching (from a browser to a shell window); the whole system froze when task switching, and had to be cold booted. This was on a 2 GB MacBook. It was about as stable as a 1GB dual-core Vista laptop.
(I was developing with Ruby on Rails, my own compiled version of Ruby, and Rails 1.2.3 & 1.2.5 later).
I go for *nix whenever possible. Sure, the OS/X's bash shell is better than cygwin .. but why not FreeBSD or Linux (or OpenBSD or NetBSD)?
After my interview tomorrow, I am going to be backing up the Vista box and putting Ubuntu on it, likely (I will first try out any FreeBSD LiveCDs I can find and if the wireless networking drivers work fine [no ndiswrapper, please]) I might use that. I know the Ubuntu ones work.
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Date: 2008-01-29 05:58 am (UTC)(I was developing with Ruby on Rails, my own compiled version of Ruby, and Rails 1.2.3 & 1.2.5 later).
I go for *nix whenever possible. Sure, the OS/X's bash shell is better than cygwin .. but why not FreeBSD or Linux (or OpenBSD or NetBSD)?
After my interview tomorrow, I am going to be backing up the Vista box and putting Ubuntu on it, likely (I will first try out any FreeBSD LiveCDs I can find and if the wireless networking drivers work fine [no ndiswrapper, please]) I might use that. I know the Ubuntu ones work.