Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

same. I use an old IBM thinkpad running ubuntu for most of my development now, and leave my macbook at home for entertainment.

For me it doesn't seem like there's really any difference between different laptops. I'm on a 15" MacBook Pro at the moment because I needed a Mac to work on an iOS project, but now I use it to code financial stuff.

Everything I do is on remote connections of one sort or another, and OSX has a simple way to swap out one virtual desktop with another. Everything that requires real computing power I do on a cloud, and everything else I think would work fine on any reasonable machine.

I'm sure a windows/linux system could do the same as my MBP, and in terms of work it wouldn't really matter as we use windows and linux together. I think more or less any laptop in the price range would be able to drive multiple screens, and it's really just a question of minor things like whether keyboard/trackpad feels nice.

So it is a bit of a hair thin decision. If this whole no-ESC no-Fkey thing seems to go badly for other devs, I won't get another Mac. I need F keys to step through a debug, and it's annoying to change key bindings.

I never really bought into this--always was a windows person. Of course, didn't do development on windows--I used cygwin first, and then when vagrant became mature, used vagrant + virtualbox.

Can't recommend that highly enough! Way better than cygwin, plus offers a level of isolation you can't get on the mac unless you use something like vagrant also.

I don't need more than a text editor, a browser and a commandline to do web development. So I would be fine with just Linux if that's all I ever did.

To do anything at all with iOS I need a Mac. So I expect that I will always have one around as long as iOS is a thing for me.

Windows is my favorite desktop and it is the best performer in my opinion. I absolutely need it to do work for most clients. Windows is the one that I will probably never be able switch away from completely.

Same here. I've done it a few times as a dual-boot with my desktop and had issues that caused me to uninstall after a month or two. I think the trick is going to be buying hardware that's 100% compatible from one of the lists people have put together.

I've had the same problem with every Linux distro I've tried, but I dumped them due to UX jank, not compatibility problems.