How to try macOS without buying a mac?

Question

.NET

Hello, I'm wondering if it will be convenient for me to use mac for dotnet development.
Of course, just buy a macbook, try it and find out, but I think after playing for a month, I'll want to put it aside and return to Windows.
Is it possible to get VDS, RDP (or something similar) somewhere for a while in order to try?
"put it on your computer" - does not fit

Answer 1

Just buy and you will be happy. You don't have to try. I thought so too. But the Mac is different. Therefore, at first it will not be familiar, and then enjoy.
On a Mac, you can try Windows. But the poppy is somewhere other than friends - hardly.

Answer 2

Install it on a virtual machine, I even raised it on AMD, Google is full of instructions.

Answer 3

You don't have to buy a Mac to use it.

Answer 4

On rutracker download vmware 15.5 and macOS Catalina in vmware container. And then
https://github.com/paolo-projects/unlocker

Answer 5

I have never had a poppy. And it won't.
But as far as I understand, the enthusiastic screeches of the yabblanuts - the poppy is not just an axis. This is a software and hardware complex, sharpened for certain tasks. And according to the general rule, when specialized iron in an area of ​​specialization always does the general thing, it is good enough in its area. Therefore, the virtual machine will not give a complete impression or give an erroneous one.
I support ittakir - buy a used piece of iron, then always sell it.

Answer 6

If you want to try macos, then, as already said, install a hackintosh and try it. I don’t know how it is in .net, I would probably still stay on windows if I were you. But in python, everything is about the same level of convenience as on ubuntu/elementary os.
Personally, the poppy suits me personally, I am 99% sure that the next computer will also be from Apple. As for the price, it's all subjective. IMHO, now IT people earn quite well and you can earn money on a new firmware in a month. In terms of price-quality ratio, poppies are normal, if you do not take them immediately after the release. Plus, if you compare with the same Huawei, then it's not a fact that it will be cheaper.
Who should consider buying a mac:
1. People like me are tired of unix jambs. I specifically tried almost all the popular debian distributions before buying and none were stable enough in detail. Although if you are not picky and not an esthete, you will like elementary os and ubunta.
2. Designers, photographers and other professionals who care about color reproduction. All the same, poppy screens are still one of the best in this regard, although benq and dell now have decent monitors. But the prices will be around 40k for a monitor similar in color reproduction.
3. People who are very important portability. MacBooks are one of the lightest and most compact devices with such characteristics on the market. Autonomy is above average, for an active working day (9 hours) I connect the charger 1 time.
4. People who care about the appearance of the device. But keep in mind that in order to maintain this appearance, you will have to regularly clean the terribly greasy keyboard keys (I try not to eat at the laptop) and the screen, on which any trace is visible.
5. Those who care about the notorious "ecosystem" that everyone is talking about. I don't have any other Apple technology, so I don't know what's wrong with it.
6. Those who are more important than money :)
Who should not take a poppy:
1. Those who plan to play games.
2. Those who depend on 32 bit applications. Dropped their support in Catalina. And in general, for those who depend on applications that are simply not on poppies (cap)
3. For those who expect Apple technology to be perfect. It makes the same noise, heats up, blunts, breaks down like the equipment of other brands, just less often.

Answer 7

Buy a second-hand macbook at Avito/Yulya, try it. Then sell for the same price.
Everything is different there and it is difficult to describe it with an ordinary virtual machine. For example, there is no PgUp/PgDn, Backspace.
The MacOS system seemed terribly inconvenient to me, the desire to develop something on it quickly disappeared. But it’s convenient to show cartoons to a child, he opened the lid and the cartoons immediately went.

Answer 8

Worked on G5, not yet intel, poppy in general and in general, at that time, of course, it was better. The price is 100k versus 20 per pc. Now you can put the hacked axis parallel to Windows. But in my opinion, all the pluses of the poppy at the beginning of the 2000s are now nothing. Last year there was an attempt for two months to play with Mojave on PC. The issue of installation is not all that complicated. But you have to get into the question. The banal grief when copying music or video from a USB flash drive became an aspen stake, for demolishing all this to us. The axis was and remains pleasant and stable, but for the money, not suffering from appleophilia, it’s not interesting. And poppy also caught black screens of death. There is exclusive software there, but the one that is not there is an order of magnitude larger.

Answer 9

In order to try makos for cheap, you can buy a 2012 makmini. If it doesn't work, you can always sell it for the same money.

Answer 10

It's convenient to develop on a dotnet if you can buy a rider - it's better than VS on Windows. But VS for Mac and VS code are far inferior to it.