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Yep. I just migrated from a mishmash of windows and Linux to macOS and it took less than a day to sort it out including loading 50 gig of photos and videos into Photos app, migrating a couple of medium size spreadsheets to Numbers, getting set up on AWS, migrating credentials over, everything.

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And with Catalina Apple has made it stupidly easy to install fresh now.

You used to have to create a bootable USB, now you can boot into recovery mode, reformat the drive and install any of 3 versions of macOS. The version that come with your machine, the last version of macOS compatible or latest version.

IME Recovery mode fails as often as it works.

At work we wound up just making bootable USB's, as they Just Work(tm).

Those aren't really pain points though.

How about getting VMs set up with port forwarding?

Also what a time to switch to Mac, the constant Apple news didn't scare you? Do you watch a lot of TV?

They are from the platforms I was coming from. It was a shit show. All my VMs are in AWS. I don't do any dev directly on this computer. I really hate doing that. All it takes is one slip up with some tooling and your entire control surface is covered with body parts and shit. It's like operating a lathe with dreadlocks and floaty sleeves on. I'm not living that life any longer. Nor am I lugging around 500gb of VMs everywhere. This is a very nice terminal node and I like that.

Which constant Apple news? You'll find if you look back through my post history I was very critical of Big Sur and the M1 but after taking time to understand it, measure it and use it I'm less concerned. When I put all the vendors on the table, including Linux, the tradeoffs were still in my favour with Apple.

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