Dude is just looking for an argument. Are there problems with OSX? You bet. There's problems with every modern OS. Some you can work around, others you learn to live with.
Personally, I develop on my Mac and have had zero issues getting the appropriate libraries and fundamentals installed. At worst I can always hit up Brew or Macports for libraries or applications which there isn't an appropriate version pre-installed (I'm looking at you, wget. How the fuck did apple forget you).
The EFI firmware on Macbooks has historically been insanely proprietary, and that still is the case...
EFI has been an Intel Standard for a decade now. Got problems with it? Talk to Intel, it's theirs.
Agreed with the EFI thing. He seems to forget that the BIOS standard that preceded [U]EFI was also proprietary. CoreBoot is a nice iniative, but unless it gets direct support from Intel/AMD/ARM, it'll always be a hobby thing for tinkerers with enough time, equipment and devepment skills to make it run.
Dude is just looking for an argument. Are there problems with OSX? You bet. There's problems with every modern OS. Some you can work around, others you learn to live with.
Personally, I develop on my Mac and have had zero issues getting the appropriate libraries and fundamentals installed. At worst I can always hit up Brew or Macports for libraries or applications which there isn't an appropriate version pre-installed (I'm looking at you, wget. How the fuck did apple forget you).
EFI has been an Intel Standard for a decade now. Got problems with it? Talk to Intel, it's theirs.
Agreed with the EFI thing. He seems to forget that the BIOS standard that preceded [U]EFI was also proprietary. CoreBoot is a nice iniative, but unless it gets direct support from Intel/AMD/ARM, it'll always be a hobby thing for tinkerers with enough time, equipment and devepment skills to make it run.