I find these articles and the recent trend of "Macs used to be cool" kind of strange. Macs have terminal.app, bash, a handful of proprietary command-line tools

I find these articles and the recent trend of "Macs used to be cool" kind of strange. Macs have terminal.app, bash, a handful of proprietary command-line tools (hdiutil) and that's about it. Never had inherent package management, we have homebrew and macports to thank for that. App Store isn't quite the same and doesn't fulfill the same needs. You can still run Linux on your MacBook, if that's what you want. macOS is fine and it's not Windows, that's what this is about right? Apple makes some pretty decent hardware when it comes to build quality, appearance, and battery life, if it's not your cup of tea maybe look into ThinkPads, they're great machines too!