Well this is a fun statistic, it seems Linux has become a fair bit more popular than macOS on the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for 2022.
Firstly for the 2021 data, professional Linux use was at 25.17% and overall Linux use was 25.32%. At the time macOS was at 30.04% for professionals and 25.19% overall. This was from over 80,000 responses.
This year's survey had over 70,000 responses, and the results for 2022 show that 40.23% use Linux for personal use while 39.89% use it as a professional. Personal use for macOS was at 31.07% and professional use at 32.97%.
So it's worth pointing out that while yes Linux use has risen quite a bit above macOS, they also had seemingly less responses on the latest survey. Still interesting enough to highlight though especially with the total responses being a pretty great sample size overall. A fun point here as well though is that the survey also noted that 15% of the respondents use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) personally and 14.34% professionally.
Naturally Windows was on top both years but the gap is getting smaller overall for developers, meanwhile poor old BSD was noted to only have 1.47% personal use and 1.03% professional use.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: sergeI tried a Mac vm once, but usb wasn't working (don't know if it is still the case now) so you can't test your app on a real device, and you are left with emulation and a significant loss of performance from the vm.A real machine is indeed needed. But it would be sufficient for the most part to have one or two machines lying around for testing and fixing purposes. No need to use them as a daily driver though
Quoting: VardamirA real machine is indeed needed. But it would be sufficient for the most part to have one or two machines lying around for testing and fixing purposes. No need to use them as a daily driver though
Yes you are right no need for everyone to have their own dedicated Apple device as they could be shared when really needed, but it will propably lead to more Windows users in my workplace ;)
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