I am currently using MacOS and planning to move to Ubuntu.
i prefer open suse is the same experience that a windows and mac with yast package manager, and you have zypper command for manipulate your bash and is very customizable and easy to use
Personally, I do not like Canonical and what the hell they do with Ubuntu. It's just so different and special in so many places and imho Canonical did so much wrong in places (Unity DE, to name one example...). Since you come from macOS, I rather suggest using elementary OS(still beta), which is free (just enter $0 as custom amount to pay) and based on macOS UX. Alternatively, Linux Mint (with Cinnamon DE; Mint actually is based on Ubuntu, but without all the Canonical stuff) is a very nice choice. It is more similar to Windows UX, but still so Linuxy :)
If you want to explore more distros, I can recommend KaOS (Review; it's still a tad beta, so you should not deviate from the standard config if you don't know what you are doing). KaOS takes away a lot of choices you have to make by only allowing a certain set of tools and libraries. All in all, that makes it very beginner-friendly, it looks awesome and it offers the latest and the greatest OpenSource tools as rolling release (while trying to maintain its stability).
You could also go away from Linux and instead have a look at the BSD world. All in all, I prefer BSD in some ways, even though I do not actively use it. Give FreeBSD or OpenBSD a try :)
As an example of the effect OpenBSD has, the popular OpenSSH software comes from OpenBSD.
However, I really suggest not touching Gentoo, Slackware or Arch Linux (or stuff based on them) if you do not want to spend days just installing the base OS to a workable state and then re-configure everything a few times while you install basic applications and start all over after an update broke the heck out of your system for the first time. But that's just my experience (and the reason why I moved away from Arch on my laptop, which I use very rarely either way) :D
By the way, we have a Linux node on Hashnode. Your post should use that node, not General Programming :)
Since you're a developer, I don't think there's that much of a difference because most tools for development available for Unix are available for most flavors.
If you prefer working with IDEs, then it ultimately comes down to look and feel, methinks.
If you do most of your work in the shell, then the biggest difference is in the installation of different interpreters/compilers/tools. This also applies to IDEs, to a certain extent, as a lot use the shell anyway.
The real question is, why did you choose to make the switch?
I use Arch, debian, ubuntu, fedora.
well there is no more brew and you will have to use apt-get / apt-cache. the unity desktop is different but you can style it close to mac.
you will have no photoshop, adobe stack.
if you use the AWS cloud the PSK wont work out of the box. you will have to use strongswan.
that's all i know of :) i know i like linux more than all the others :)
Darshak Parikh
Front-end developer at Digitate
Ricardo Berdejo
JS Developer
Well, you may expect issues with some applications if your hardware is not well supported, specially with wifi cards and video cards.
Keep in mind that native iOS development is just available on Apple OSs.
Ubuntu is a nice entry point for newcomers. The community is big and almost any possible problem you may encounter it's already marked SOLVED on a blog post.
My Recommendations: Try it, play with it, break it as much as you can and try to fix it, this is the only way to learn, don't be afraid, the installation only takes 10 mins.