You must know my neighbour. He was running a Kubota for a year or two, but it didn't take him long to replace it with a Deere.
I have most of the major brands in my shed. I don't particularly care much about what colour I'm using. Purchases have been made based on cost, which has included some green equipment when a great auction find has been found.
My experience says that JD has the UX nailed. When you're spending 12 hour days in the seat, the little things do start to make a big difference. I am not sure it is fair to be dismissive of it as being a result of great branding. The equipment is meant to be used and the experience and comfort while using it can most definitely be worth a premium to many.
This made me think of how many developers (who spend 10 hrs/day in front of their screen) choose Apples products. A linux machine might be better on performance, maintainance, and all that, but Linux does not care about UX the way Apple does.
The only reason most devs I work with don't use a Linux laptop is that our corporate security, vpn, and auditing software isn't available for Linux. We settle for garbage-tier UX from docker + x11.app so we can do our jobs, not because Apple cares about anything.
An actual VT4xx or VT5xx is the best terminal. An xterm window is a decent substitute (and if it comes with the optional Tek emulator, has some small extra whistles, but I think that has mostly been ripped out of all xterms by now).
The MacOS terminal is... so-so. I mean, it's not horrible, but it is also not great.
I am not convinced that Apple kit has the best UX (and I am in the same room as two macs that I alternate between).
I run i3/tmux/xterm wherever I can (also back when I was doing frontend). I definitely prefer this over anything Apple has been able to offer me in terms of user experience.
My comment above was just a reflection of a connection I hadn't made before. :)
I somewhere between like and REALLY like the laptops. Still not convinced by the touch bar on the work 16" MacBook Pro. But, it does seem kind of neat in many ways. At some point, I may experiment with its tex suggestions, for surrealism, if nothing else.
Lots of devs can't choose their platform. It's often a choice between Windows and Mac, if that. On a lot of the jobs I've worked, it was Windows-only. Give me a Linux machine instead and I will spend the day as happy as a genie who was permanently released from its bottle.
This is old, but I remember my grandpa saying he didn't buy Deere because "everything's backwards." Not sure if he meant the controls or mechanics, or how literal he was being. Beyond that, he didn't seem to care about brand all that much, and he had great luck with his Kubota.
I have most of the major brands in my shed. I don't particularly care much about what colour I'm using. Purchases have been made based on cost, which has included some green equipment when a great auction find has been found.
My experience says that JD has the UX nailed. When you're spending 12 hour days in the seat, the little things do start to make a big difference. I am not sure it is fair to be dismissive of it as being a result of great branding. The equipment is meant to be used and the experience and comfort while using it can most definitely be worth a premium to many.