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And tbh: money is not the issue. I don't like the 'apple tax' but they are comfortable wayyyyyy up in their trees... and macOS / iOS dev env is leverage.

I'm on the same boat. Except I have a chromebox as guinea pig.

I've seen people reporting this transition as a 'surprisingly good experience'. So here's my 2 cents on a 30 minute run (amount of time it takes me to setup a new macbook):

1password: there are options, but omg it just works...

xrandr: I knew things would get hairy when I found myself looking up how to dual monitor + rotate on i3wm

fonts: I don't know what it is, but seems different

I know your experience will vary from distro to distro, but that is exactly the point: it's hard to find that happy place.

I'm sure that sticking to certain distro, under certain hardware, things will go fine. But that at point I ask myself: Sooo... this seems similar to mac ecosystem, why not pay the apple tax and move on?

I don't think 2017 will be the year of linux on the desktop (or any other prophecy along those lines), but for sure it will be 'the year I reconsidered linux on the desktop'.

The Linux experience I saw so far would be enough for me to be productive with some known rough edges that I can either help fix or report.

Worst case scenario I get a macbook pro during the fall update ;)

honest question: Any idea why Toronto (and Canada in general) is not higher in this list?

curious to know the 'what works / what doesn't work' here.

I truly believe this battle to be between xps13 / retina 13.

I think "having to ask" is the #1 pain point.

Money is usually not a topic people are comfortable talking about.

Bob: Hey guys, we didn't pass emissions tests.

Jay: I think we can adjust the ECU parameters.

Bob: Oh, nice. let's try that.

Mechanic James: By doing this you guys lowered the lifetime of a few components. We might need to re-engineer the whole thing :(

Bob: What if we detect we are undergoing tests and tweak it? This way we still can deliver the project on time.

Some manager: Yeah, do it.

Now Bob and Jay are in trouble.......

11k employees, 970 million daily actives, one of the companies "changing the world", and yet people say you don't know anything based on sporadic outages.

They are good. Let them figure it out.

I'm really happy with openresty and curious to put them side by side. betting on lua here.

If you can't get in the console, use awscli. It is responding fine!

unless you have a family to take care of, don't think about money. at your level, 12k becomes marginal after taxes. Focus on what you want for your career.

Promotions (while on the same company) are usually due to:

- merit: if your goals align with the company, stay. You will have to shift from player to coach a bit, but it is not a bad thing.

- fear of you leaving: golden cuffs. I suggest you leave. Getting stressed/bored and leaving 2 months later looks worse.

take some time to learn about 'yourself': why are you bored? what makes you happy? what do you need to feel pumped about waking up everyday and going to work?

Liking your current team members: This is a fact.

Liking your new team members: A bet.

brain: longest garbage collection cycle ever

if there is intelligent life there and they point a telescope at us right now, they would be seeing earth ~ 500 years ago.

"check out this planet, looks like a promising place once we run out of materials here."