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As of Catalina, Apple has switched the default shell to zsh and nags you when you launch bash. That said... I agree. Between this, the abysmal keyboard failure
by Beefpro9 7y ago
As of Catalina, Apple has switched the default shell to zsh and nags you when you launch bash.
That said... I agree. Between this, the abysmal keyboard failure rate, and some of the user-hostile choices they've made, I've switched to a Razer laptop.
Windows 10 Pro lets you avoid most of the jank, by the way. But, I'm only on it as an eventual migration path to something running XFCE (my favorite wm due to its out of box usability).
- elSidCampeador 7y agoWait what? Why/when did they do this?
- dijit 7y agoWhat are you asking? Why/When MacOS transitioned to zsh? Why; because bash became GPLv3 at some point in history and MacOS couldn’t update their version of bash. (The last GPLv2 version). When; was catalina (just released)
- angrygoat 7y agoAmazingly, the message is actually hard coded into the bash binary, rather than having been done via an rc file – so it can't be disabled in any obvious way I can see.
- soraminazuki 7y agoWhat’s so upsetting about switching the default shell to zsh? It’s compatible enough that most users wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Besides, licensing problems would persist no matter how much more effort Apple is willing to put into macs.
- my123 7y agoThey have a big shared codebase between iOS and macOS, so them adding GPLv3 tools can end badly with the anti-tivoization clauses.
- soraminazuki 7y agoYou mean they have GPLv2 code in iOS?
- my123 7y agoYes they do.