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I’m looking to buy a personal machine for development and I’m deciding whether to go with a Mac or a PC (on which I’d run Ubuntu). My plans for the next year or so involve getting more heavily into C/C++ and networking than I currently am. Are there any differences I should be aware of between the two OSes as far as C/C++ system libraries and such go?
If you have a lot of excess cash laying around, get the mac with the option to run Ubuntu in a VM. Otherwise a pc gives just about as much flexibility. As far as the actual development environment, both are going to be similarly good, but Ubuntu might be just a bit more developer friendly: apt certainly does make it easy to get additional libraries, etc. It might also depend on what IDE or tool chain you want to use.