Why I switched From macOS to Windows (For developer reasons)

3 min readAug 1, 2021

Hi everyone, we’ll talk about “Why I switched from macOS to Windows”. There are many reasons for this decision. I’ll talk to each for all titles below. But first, let’s compare my PC's hardware and my macOS’ hardware and different topics

Compare macOS and Windows’ specs

macOS

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)
6-Core i7–9750H @ 2.60GHz
16 GB DDR4 2400 MHz
256 GB SSD

Windows

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3,6GHz 35MB Cache
16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
480 GB m2 SSD

You can see my computers’ specs below.

Which am I developing techs?

My expert skill is Android Development. Apart from these, I’m using;

Docker
Spring (Intellij Idea)
Angular (Webstorm)
Python (PyCharm)

And other tools;

Discord
Zoom
Chrome

Why I decide don’t use macOS?

Stability

I was satisfied when I bought my MacBook but when I released new versions (especially the BigSur version) I could not use my MacBook and not only for me use macOS my other friends said the same things. Usually, when I open 2 chrome tabs and open 1 Android project my macOS was freezing.

Now I don’t update my macOS.

Temperature

When I open the Chrome and Android Studio project temperature rises to 85 °C therefore when I my hand put to on MacBook my hand sweat. That situation uncomfortable for me.

Noise

When i open macbook, macbook’s fan increase rpm value to 5900. Therefore in March I my macbook went to apple service. But service said “There is no any hardware problem at your macbook but we cleared your macbook”. When I came house open macbook again there was fan noise.

I don’t Trust Apple

You know Apple deliberately slowing down before products. Linked post;

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

The practice was confirmed after a customer shared performance tests on Reddit, suggesting their iPhone 6S had slowed…

www.bbc.com

And released new M1 Macbook. I think Apple slowing down old macbooks. I don’t want spend money again new macbook.

Already enough above reasons for change macOS for me.

Why I didn’t Use Windows Before using macOS?

When I student I was using Arch Linux on my personal computer. But when I working at the company I couldn’t corporate applications like Microsoft Team etc.

I had to change my OS but I didn’t use Windows. Because Windows slowly than Linux. And I get used to the Linux user experience therefore I decided to use macOS.

Why do I now prefer Windows ?

Firstly, I don’t live like macOS problems.

Secondly, WSL :) (Best reason)

What is WSL?

The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup.

Now if you use WSL 2 Windows came with Linux Kernal. And you can use all Linux commands in Windows.