> No one is trying to sell you a system. [...] If you don't need that, no one suggests you run it on your desktop. I disagree. People have been recommending Li

> No one is trying to sell you a system. [...] If you don't need that, no one suggests you run it on your desktop. I disagree. People have been recommending Linux to people with non-complex needs for a long time, especially since Ubuntu went mainstream. “No one suggests you run it on your desktop” is thus wrong. > If you feel well inside Apples walled garden, have fun there, but don't come complaining when some Unix tool or programming language does not work there. Is this really an issue? As far as I’ve heard, macOS is a POSIX-compatible system with a BSD userland, and most Unix tools work fine. Checking out the Homebrew repos, it seems like all the Unix tools I’m used to are there. And even some Linux-specific systems like FUSE have been ported to macOS. As far as I can tell, macOS thus supports Unix tools and programming languages as well as most Linux distros.