David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
and try something else to realize that there is other things other than Apple.
And again, it's not because I hate Apple.
I think they still make good computers.
I think a lot of the software is still also pretty okay.
But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better.
Linux is just better.
It's closer to what I deploy on.
The tooling is actually phenomenal.
And if you spend a bit of time setting it up, you can record...
a reproducible environment that I've now done with this Amacube concept or project that I've done, that I can set up a new Linux machine in less than 30 minutes and it's perfect.
It's not pretty good.
It's not like I still need to spend two hours on.
It's perfect because you can encode all aspects of the development environment into this.
I didn't know.
I didn't even know, to be fair, that Linux could look as good as it can.
If you look at a stock Ubuntu or Fedora boot,
I mean, not that it's ugly, but I'd pick the Mac in the day of the week.
You look at Amacoop.
I mean, I'm biased here, of course, because I built it with my own sensibilities.
But I look at that and go like, this is better.