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"Mac OS and Windows, which is more suit for programming?"

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I am not either Windows/Mac fanboy or hater. Some of my friends said that most professional programmers tend to use Mac to code, because its UNIX-based, has UNIX command line whatsoever.

However, in my programming class, and actually in my school Computer Science Department, nearly 75% my classmates are using Windows. Also, I hardly see my instructors use Mac when do the program. I don't know if they use their Macbook at home or not, but well...

So, is it true that Mac has more advantages comparing to Windows when it comes down to do programming? or vice versa? If so, then what advantages? ...

04-14-2013, 03:09 AM
sharknice Gawd, 1.2 Years Status: sharknice is offline

Unless you're going to be doing IOS or Java development you'll probably want a machine that can run windows. Microsoft has a lot of good development tools that are windows only such as Visual Studio. Most work places have windows machines for the programmers.

Macs have nothing special for development. The main IDE for OSX is Xcode which is laughable compared to Visual Studio. I'm assuming for school work you're probably using Java or python both which have plenty of IDEs that are on both Mac and Windows. The only real advantage macs have is they can be used for IOS development. So unless you have an iPhone and want to make some apps I wouldn't get a Mac.

I prefer using a PC because I can use more monitors and the hardware is a lot faster. Programming on just a laptop is frustrating.
I know people that use Macbook Pros because they want a laptop and like the hardware, but they put windows on them and do most of their development using windows unless they are doing a simple website or something."

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1756737

You can see some other developers answers, they're very similar to this one.