For example, they don't ship with a package manager. Strictly speaking they are. Of course, it doesn't help that they put most of the system in one package :)

For example, they don't ship with a package manager. Strictly speaking they are. Of course, it doesn't help that they put most of the system in one package :) (com.apple.pkg.Essentials). At any rate, Homebrew and MacPorts are only five minutes away. Even after 22 years of experience with various Linux distributions, I still prefer Homebrew as my package manager. (Mostly because adding your own custom formulae is so easy and new packages are in more quickly than in e.g. Debian.)