Poll: *** The official 2022 MacBook Air/13" MacBook Pro thread (it has the M2 chip, MagSafe and everything!) ***

What 2022 M2 notebook will you get?

  • MacBook Air

    Votes: 35 87.5%

  • 13" MacBook Pro

    Votes: 5 12.5%
  • Total voters
    40
I must be the only person around who doesn't have a problem with window management in MacOS :D I have never used a 3rd party tool either. Didn't they make a change a few years back where apps remember your window size? I know I never have to resize my browser. I do tend to have far too many terminals open though, instead of using tmux as I should.
 
Cromulent said:
What type of development do you do? I find using the JetBrains IDEs perfectly fine to use with Node.js, Python and PostgreSQL on the Mac.
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Data engineering. A lot of terminal, Docker, Python (VSCode), various web tools via the browser, so having windows next to each other and easily swapping between them is useful. Not to mention having email, Teams, etc. in the background. Keyboard navigation is so much faster.

Throrik said:
I'm the exact opposite, everything takes thrice as long developing on Windows compared to MacOS - full terminal capability out of the box, great package management and can use everything from tmux to vim to VS Code etc without barely a sweat.
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To be clear, I don't use Windows for development, although with WSL and VSCode integration it's much better than it used to be. Mapping paths and all that is a bit of a pain and it's a resource hog.

ChrisD. said:
The same can be said for package managers on Windows (like you alluded to in an earlier post), or any app that's not included in the base OS. On Linux you have to edit repos or download deb files if using that flavour, it's not as straight forward as you're making out. No OS works for a dev/admin type user out of the box and nearly always some requires 3rd party software to do something.

I get the Window management thing, but most of the other stuff I don't get. Just install brew like everyone else along with whatever other software you want and away you go.

I'd rather the inconvenience of having to install an app to make Window management better, than deal with all the nonsense that comes with Windows these days (privacy concerns, tracking, ads, they change the look & feel when they want, forced updates etc etc). And Linux, well, it's great if you have all the right drivers and common hadware, if not, it can be a complete minefield at times.
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I think that's a big/dated misconception about Linux. Yes, there are flavours, but just use Fedora, which is upstream of RHEL, which is hugely popular in the server (Amazon Linux is based on RHEL) world and well funded. It's supported everywhere and you can either download an RPM (EXE, DMG) or run DNF (similar to Homebrew), to install software. The default DE, Gnome, has dynamic workspaces and window management. Drop-down terminal is great (got this working with iTerm of macOS), Docker doesn't need half my memory to just exist.

But again, I understand that it isn't geared towards developers, and if you've only know Windows and macOS, I can understand why you'd stick to a Mac.
 
Mesai said:
Data engineering. A lot of terminal, Docker, Python (VSCode), various web tools via the browser, so having windows next to each other and easily swapping between them is useful. Not to mention having email, Teams, etc. in the background. Keyboard navigation is so much faster.
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I do a lot of Linux system management through SCP and SSH and also work with Homebrew and other things. Docker is fine for me as well. I used to use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed but I found having everything working together well is very important.
 
I think we have strayed a bit off topic :p

What colours are people going for?

I like the thought of midnight but I fear it will be a finger print magnet.

Any word on the date of pre-orders going live?
 
Cromulent said:
Walk into the cable using TB4 will pull the laptop off onto the floor. Magsafe will disconnect and not pull the laptop off the desk.
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I wondered. I don’t see it as a big deal if you’re not a clumsy oaf :D

Very tempted by an M2 Air. Absolutely do not “need” one but I might get one anyway.
 
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