In the short run yeah. You have a point. I intend to uninstall & reinstall everything once Homebrew is officially supported though, which isn't a big deal for me (and I actually kind of enjoy building from source just for the experience).
But these replies are making me think that a large part of my decision to do this is motivated by me just not understanding Homebrew well enough (e.g. how easy it is to nuke everything). Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
I think I'm going to manually build things from source until Homebrew officially supports M1 and Big Sur. I don't want to deal with any sort of migration / funky re-install, personally.
i think i’m in a very similar situation, thanks for putting it into words. i’m not doing great but it’s ok. it doesn’t feel good, but it doesn’t feel bad either
That’s why I got the Pro (also my laptop is from 2013 and I’m desperate). I love and use Docker every day, and know it’s a mess right now, but I’m still excited to jump in head first.
Edit: This is my personal laptop fwiw. My work one is still Intel.
Yep. My new work laptop only has 16GB of RAM and it’s never been an issue. I’m usually running half a dozen containers, VS Code, Slack, Brave/Chrome, and a few other things. Maybe our work loads are just computationally lighter than some?
I ordered a 16GB Pro the other day to be my personal dev machine. I’m sure it’ll be more than fine. I’m upgrading from a 2013 8GB Pro which was only just starting to slow me down.