I'm not on the Xcode treadmill forcing me to update an OS because Apple dropped support. I have an external Thundebolt dock that actually works. My experience is that I'm now tinkering with things less on Linux than I used to on macOS/OS X. I finally dumped Mac completely for Ubuntu LTS on a Lenovo X1 Carbon about 12 months ago. So from that perspective, Windows+WSL, with all its warts, comes closest to usable. The number of students we had who used linux already on their laptop I can count on one hand with no fingers :(, but our new postdoc directly ran into an opengl problem on AMD which makes the gpu restart. Now I am actually happy if somebody brings a windows laptop. New xcode? Better start downloading new versions and recompile everything, and pray that it works. Slap homebrew on it, install the dependencies, install the software. ![]() 5-10 years ago, I was happy if a new student was on Mac. ![]() We have to onboard new students regularly, and it's quite a software stack to compile (Geant4, root, helper libs, our framework). The software framework we use was originally developed by me, on a macbook pro, mainly, targeting both MacOS and Linux. ![]() I am the "analysis software coordinator" for a nuclear physics experiment (MUSE).
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