Seconded. I grew up writing C++ on VS6 and despite its innumerable problems (which I didn't remotely care about at the time) I also grew up not knowing source i

Seconded. I grew up writing C++ on VS6 and despite its innumerable problems (which I didn't remotely care about at the time) I also grew up not knowing source indexing and visually debugging C++ were even difficult, yet the world of posix seemed ancient and impenetrable. But these were the days of mingw, cygwin, and djgpp, all of which turned me off of non-win dev until moving to the bay and forcing myself to branch out. Having dabbled with Linux numerous times and falling on my face osx at the time offered a unique bridge between the worlds for me - bare enough to be able to force it to do what I told it to as a dev but not unwrittenly expecting me to be an already acclimated greybeard like the linux distros of the era. Those times are unfortunately gone, the difference between being a dev/poweruser on osx/apple increasingly feels like the difference between usermode/kernelmode on other platforms, and it's sad, but I guess it's still making them money hand over fist and nothing lasts forever. It’s the same story with tech and money, as time goes on we’re all increasingly affected by it but individual control of it continues to become more all-or-nothing.