Anecdotal experience. I tried to set up gcc for someone on macOS, and it ended up requiring to register an iTunes account that asked for a credit card info. Aft

Anecdotal experience. I tried to set up gcc for someone on macOS, and it ended up requiring to register an iTunes account that asked for a credit card info. After that I said "just simply use Linux, installing gcc there is one simple command". TL;DR: the reason to use Linux is that it's not controlled by Apple ;)