Why do web developers use OS X instead of Linux?

Apple’s OS X operating system for the Mac seems to be a very popular choice among web developers. But why have so many of them forsaken Linux in favor of OS X? A Linux redditor asked about this and got some interesting answers from fellow redditors.

Michaelpb asks about web developers and OS X:

Why do so many web devs (rails, django, php, etc), who spend a lot of their time SSH’d into Linux servers and develop software stacks ported from Linux, use OS X? Answers I often hear are things like “it just works”, “I was used to it”, and “I like the hardware”. But honestly, I’ve seen OS X co-workers struggle against their OS enough by now that “it just works” reeks of confirmation bias, especially in the context of web development, when the OS X solutions (homebrew, macports) are complete crap compared to a real package manager.

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