Of course installing applications like IDE, database tools, etc is still the same, but other than that it’s an automatic install with one or two commands. A few years back maybe it’s a normal thing, but now it’s seems like a long process. In Windows you need to go to a website, find a link to the download page, choose installation type, download, then install which is quite a long process for me now. The equivalent of it in Linux is “apt-get”, “dnf”, or “yum”. Using MacOS you can use brew to install many things such as Postgres, Docker, and many more. Setting up and installing dependencies is easier. So here’s why I switched from being a Windows user to a Mac or Linux user (they are pretty much the same). You should read my post about my professional journey as a back end programmer so you know why I needed to setup servers. On my second job, I started using Linux to setup servers and MacOS to code (they gave me Macbook Pro for work). I used Raspberry Pi for one or two years coding program for robots and still think Windows is better. I thought to myself, “why the heck would you use Linux, Windows has everything”. I haven’t tried hands on using MacOS or Linux but have seen people use them and it seems pretty hard to use. I thought that Windows was the best OS out there. Some programmers prefer specific operating system and in this post I want to try to explain the three most used operating systems that is Windows, Linux, and MacOS from my own experience. Operating system is one of the thing that helps programmers to get things done more quickly. Creating a program takes effort and programmers tend to have different tools to make themselves more productive and make the task easier. Each programmer have their own set of tools and ways they are comfortable with when coding.

Develop for mac on linux