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The thing to remember is that, under all the chrome and Apple styling, macOS is rooted in BSD. So the power users who enjoy the *nix-y bits of macOS and are loo
by dhagz 6y ago
The thing to remember is that, under all the chrome and Apple styling, macOS is rooted in BSD. So the power users who enjoy the *nix-y bits of macOS and are looking for a replacement will look for something that gives them more of that.
- extremeMath 6y agoIs this a real thing? Like there are people that don't VM/SSH into Linux but use shell? What demographic is this? College kids and Apple employees? It seems like minor benefit in an otherwise atrocious platform.
- viro 6y agoOver the years I haven't found very many unix tools I couldn't install with homebrew. I'm also a big fan of the move from Bash to ZSH. Why start up a VM or SSH into another machine if I can just use Terminal or Iterm.
- extremeMath 6y agoI don't understand. What commands are you sending your macbook outside installations? It's not like you are running a server, you still need to SSH into the server to do anything.