> A desktop environment that made it easier to perform generic development would be a unique selling point.
The power of modern hardware and lightweight VM-centric workflows (vagrant) has made it so that we can enjoy the Mac hardware and interface while working in a lightweight, no-compromises Linux environment.
With my MBP I can spin up a cluster of machines for a project, edit locally (via shared folders) in vim, emacs or IntelliJ, deploy/test on the VMs and turn them off again when I'm done. No need to even mess with much in Homebrew - the tools are all installed on the VMs using Linux package managers.
The power of modern hardware and lightweight VM-centric workflows (vagrant) has made it so that we can enjoy the Mac hardware and interface while working in a lightweight, no-compromises Linux environment.
With my MBP I can spin up a cluster of machines for a project, edit locally (via shared folders) in vim, emacs or IntelliJ, deploy/test on the VMs and turn them off again when I'm done. No need to even mess with much in Homebrew - the tools are all installed on the VMs using Linux package managers.