And tbh: money is not the issue. I don't like the 'apple tax' but they are comfortable wayyyyyy up in their trees... and macOS / iOS dev env is leverage.
I'm on the same boat. Except I have a chromebox as guinea pig.
I've seen people reporting this transition as a 'surprisingly good experience'. So here's my 2 cents on a 30 minute run (amount of time it takes me to setup a new macbook):
1password: there are options, but omg it just works...
xrandr: I knew things would get hairy when I found myself looking up how to dual monitor + rotate on i3wm
fonts: I don't know what it is, but seems different
I know your experience will vary from distro to distro, but that is exactly the point: it's hard to find that happy place.
I'm sure that sticking to certain distro, under certain hardware, things will go fine. But that at point I ask myself: Sooo... this seems similar to mac ecosystem, why not pay the apple tax and move on?
I don't think 2017 will be the year of linux on the desktop (or any other prophecy along those lines), but for sure it will be 'the year I reconsidered linux on the desktop'.
The Linux experience I saw so far would be enough for me to be productive with some known rough edges that I can either help fix or report.
Worst case scenario I get a macbook pro during the fall update ;)
11k employees, 970 million daily actives, one of the companies "changing the world", and yet people say you don't know anything based on sporadic outages.
unless you have a family to take care of, don't think about money. at your level, 12k becomes marginal after taxes. Focus on what you want for your career.
Promotions (while on the same company) are usually due to:
- merit: if your goals align with the company, stay. You will have to shift from player to coach a bit, but it is not a bad thing.
- fear of you leaving: golden cuffs. I suggest you leave. Getting stressed/bored and leaving 2 months later looks worse.
take some time to learn about 'yourself': why are you bored? what makes you happy? what do you need to feel pumped about waking up everyday and going to work?
(puts Stallman's hat on) This is not free as in freedom.