I know they are example questions, and I get your point, but: > How do you change the GUI theme on a Mac? A lot of people don't really have a strong preferenc

I know they are example questions, and I get your point, but: > How do you change the GUI theme on a Mac? A lot of people don't really have a strong preference for these things. > How do you update all the software to the newest version? brew upgrade > some command line tools Apple ships are almost ten years old at this point You can brew install the good ones with a oneliner: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69223/how-to-replace-mac-os-x-utilities-with-gnu-core-utilities http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69223/how-to-replac... But my overall point: I'm like your parent. I used to be a linux user, but I switched to a macbook 12 a little longer than a year ago and the pros far outweight the cons. And a lot of developers feel this way. You also get longer battery. And you can always spin up a vm for linux requirements. I have tried a lot to use only linux. I was able to drop Windows completely (as I don't play videogames). But at least for the moment, macos is just much better for a lot of people.