hey guys it's solomon here i'm a software engineer based here in the uk and if you're new to the channel i make weekly engineering and tech videos so if that's something you're interested in please make sure you hit that subscribe button in the description below before we get into the video on why i use a macbook pro as a software engineer everything that i'm saying in this video is purely from my experience and my opinion so yeah take that as you will so let's start with why windows is not a good option for coders so the windows user interface isn't really designed to accommodate the command line interface now the command line is something developers use all the time you can obviously use the command line within ides like visual studio code has a built-in command line the built-in command line on the windows operating system is a bit annoying to use and can cause a bit of frustration the fonts are poorly rendered and simple things like copy and pasting text feels a little bit clunky in my view the windows operating system and the actual interface is quite simple this can't have been designed for non-technical users in mind but then again i am maybe a little bit biased because i'm such a big apple fan you know windows never released any bug fixes for severe passing rendering and standard issues in their old web browsers also windows adds additional costs and barriers compared to os like costs for additional software licenses extra hardware macos generally already has everything built in already so why do software engineers love mac os and especially the command line so firstly NUMBER_TOKEN of the world's websites and server builds use unix now what is unix unix is an operating system that supports multitasking and multi-user functionality so unix is most widely used in all forms of computing systems like desktops laptops and servers apple's operating system mac os has been built on top of unix since NUMBER_TOKEN so therefore generally speaking mac os is more developer friendly the command line os powers most of the world's file systems and servers os x is a fully featured unix operating system certified by the open standard groups unix offers a lot of stability flexibility and security and mac os tends to be a lot safer against tools that hackers use like trojan horses and viruses and of course no developer wants their machine attacked by a malicious hacker and have their work interfered with text and fonts get rendered beautifully and can be resized and moved around naturally without getting cut off it also has very good integration with the gui and the command line tools you can drag and drop anything into the command line and you can guarantee that something useful will be displayed there mac os x has a much better cross-platform compatibility and if you want you can quickly run all the main operating systems within the machine which is a big advantage for software developers running programs on other platforms other operating systems can be run using virtual machines or linux virtual environment another reason why i use a macbook pro as a software engineer is that apple always builds quality hardware there are three times more windows pcs that break compared to a mac device it could be the hardware failure device bricking wear and tear it could be the universal plug and play the wi-fi the thunderbolt the usbc either way macbooks are always reliable and durable and you can always rely on apple to deliver on quality any
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