Where is the mac vs ubuntu vs windows war for developers? I am a Windows user (on a dell latitude e5570), but I am considering a new laptop because everyone says macbooks are great and outperform windows (which on gradle builds is true).

I mainly use my laptop only for developing and programming things like: full-stack, Android and a little bit of deeplearning/ML.

So which one would you recommend and why? These are pretty heavy tasks, from my opinion.

dual boot linux and windows

@TerriToniAX how's Linux for android development? It gets annoying when a gradle build takes 2 min +

Well, IF you compare a $2000 Mac and a $350 PC, ofc the Mac wins

@Linux but if you compare a $1200 PC with a $2000 Mac, the PC wins

@DjSall
No doubt

When it comes to laptop performance per dollar Apple isn't great but they're not that overpriced (PC laptops with similar quality monitors and low weight cost almost as much). The big problem with apple is that they love to solder their ram (hard as f--k to upgrade) and they don't really have any big laptops (biggest MBP is 15" and weighs 1.83kg which limits what they can put into them)

If you don't mind heavy 17" laptops you can get some pretty powerful (and power hungry) hardware on the PC side at semi reasonable prices.

The 17.3" thinkpad p71 can be bought with a xeon e3-1535M cpu, 64GB ram, nvidia quadro P5000(16GB) and 2x1TB ssd for example. (pretty much workstation hardware in a laptop format)

Want performances? Keep your laptop and install Gentoo. Thanks me later. If you have the time though

WOOOEEEH I CAN'T WAIT TO PAY LICENSING FEES TO DEVELOP ON APPLES SHITTY XCODE PLATFORM.

FUUUCCKING UPDATES REBOOTED MY SHIT FUCK YOU MICROSOFT GODDAMN WHAT IS THIS

SAY COMPILE FROM SOURCE ONE MORE TIME LINUS I DARE YOU I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHER FUCKER SAY COMPILE AGAIN

ok there you have now sufficiently experienced the holy war

What @unfuckers-inc said!

@VictorMotogna That's one reason you need both Windows and Linux :)