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> Outdated utilities, missing man pages, dtrace unusable by default due to SIP, etc. After checking out macOS for the first time in late 2016, it took me until
by coatmatter 8y ago
> Outdated utilities, missing man pages, dtrace unusable by default due to SIP, etc.
After checking out macOS for the first time in late 2016, it took me until only recently to realise macOS mostly only supports info pages - not man (but to confuse matters, some man pages for certain things like "man ls" do work). Even something as recent as git only offers info pages in Darwin - I'd love to understand why that is.
I've had to run through the "info info" tutorial a few times because the keyboard shortcuts seem neither compatible with emacs nor Readline and they still feel clunky compared to man pages, but I sort of know my way around them now to not have to frequently Cmd-tab back to Safari and figure out which desktop/workspace I've ended up at and how to get back (fwiw, I favour i3).
As for the outdated utilities, I do think it's a little absurd that brew and brew cask are essential add-ons to fetch what should already be present and "just work" (e.g., coreutils).