Let me get myself back to 2012… Costa Concordia, Xi Jinping, London Olympics, Obama reelected, scandals in Brazil and I moved to MacOS X. Since 2012 all my daily drivers portables was Apple Macbook Pro notebooks. I will never regret this decision, using Apple platform, I worked, founded a startup, bring a new products to life and had fun. I am using the same hardware since 2013, no faults (except battery, that I replaced). I trully believe using same hardware for a long time, is impressive. But let’s talk about Apple.
Apple
Apple did, and continue to do an awesome job. They are keeping their hardware compatible with new macOS releases like no other manufacturer. You will be able to install the new macOS Big Sur in a 2013 hardware. Well done Apple!
But in another hand, there are some special moments this compatilibity going to be broken, like, when Apple decides to switch Macs to a different processor architecture. And again, well done Apple! It happened in the Motorola to PowerPC, happened again in PowerPC to Intel switch and will happen again from Intel to Apple Silicon. And these changes happened and will happen with no or very little impact to the end customer.
While i’m writing this post, we are experiencing the third exchange of Apple processors and this impacted me in a very interesting way.
Do I need a new hardware?
There is a video posted on Computer Clan channel on youtube that represents a lot my sentiments on my actual MacBook Pro.
Computer Clan video about why I still use a 2013 MacBook
Yes, I agree with him. The hardware and software integration provided by Apple with the extreme componemt and build quality offered, makes a 2013 MacBook Pro useable with no effects in my workflow. I aways was proud to say that my MacBook was awesome. I can run a lot of containers, databases, Visual Studio Code, Spotify, iTerm2, Slack… you name it. All software running with no lags or freezes. A BSD Kernel (Mach) with an awesome process scheduling or RAM compression and optimization helps. Anyway, having that hardware and software integration and the absurd software optimization, makes the difference.
How about the rest of world?
Well, I continued working with Linux (Ubuntu) in the cloud. All my servers, nodes, pods were Ubuntu based containers. So, I never lost my connection with Linux based OSes. But I lost my interest in the Redmont OS even desktop or server versions, a brave new world on Linux kernels, MacOS X usability and all nitty-gritties, all nuts and bolts to discover.
The consequence? Last Windows OS I used as desktop daily driver was Windows 7. I did not use Windows 8, 8.1 and first versions of Windows 10. But Microsoft changed, embraced the Cloud, accepted and incorporated lots of innovation from the Open Source communities, make themselves a part of OSS. Created their own Linux distribution, made their server software Linux compatible (SQL Server), open sourced .Net Framework, Visual Studio Code, bought GitHub and launched Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Microsoft started creating solutions for developers. The BASIC Interpreter for ALTAIR Computers was the first Microsoft product. The Redmond giant always made awesome tools for developers. I think, with the new management, new board, lots of old paradigms were broken, new ways of thinking have been created. Visual Studio Code, WSL, Edge Chromium, SQL Server for Linux, the deprecation of Internet Explorer, you name it. So why not?
I can mention a lot of another things that can help to my decision: new hardware, gaming and why not… FOMO. Anyway… finally I got a decision, get myself back to Windows.
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