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I too feel similarly. I was disappointed to have to leave Coda behind when I started using Linux more often than Mac OS. On Linux you are rewarded for using the tools that other Linux users celebrate. Life just becomes easier that way. So some of the bells and whistles of Coda and other commercial packages like some of the mind mapping apps are missed, but somehow life goes on. I am much happier now in my desktop environment overall, though.


Linux seems to have decent dev environment with VS Code now, maybe except for a good lightweight GUI database manager. Mac just has the best overall quality apps because people are used to paying $10, $20 for something decent. I'll never use Windows for development for the lack of third party tool quality.


What database are you working with and what is the OSX app you use for the task?


SequelPro for MySQL. Postico for PostgreSQL. I don't use it but TablePlus has support for quite a few db and it's also available on Windows.


MySQL at least has quite a few good quality clients in Windows like HeidiSQL or MySQL workbench. For PostgreSQL there is pgAdmin.


I use SQLEditor for DB design on the Mac.




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