When I was recently hired by AWS, they gave me an option of what platform to choose. I selected macOS. They gave me an M1 MacBook Pro, which is probably still t

When I was recently hired by AWS, they gave me an option of what platform to choose. I selected macOS. They gave me an M1 MacBook Pro, which is probably still the fastest and most powerful machine in the house, although I do have an older personal Intel-based 16" MacBook Pro that has a lot more RAM. I've been a MacFanatic since December of 1983, when I saw a prototype of the original 128k Mac behind closed doors. The only apps were MacPaint and MacWrite and the calculator, and all it took was five minutes to convince me that this is how all computers should work. I was still in high school. I've also been a nix [1] geek since 1984, when we were using a PDP 11/70 running BSD 2.9.something (I think), with a whole 64KB of RAM in two 32KB banks. This was the standard multiuser computer system operated by the University EE/CS department for undergraduates. The CLI still makes so much sense for so many operations. IMO, modern macOS is the best combination of the concepts of the original macOS and nix -- in part because it's based on Mach and BSD Unix under the hood. [1] I use the term "*nix" here, because I have also been using Linux since 1998, when I was hired by Belgacom Skynet, which was the ISP arm of the former PTT for Belgium. I've used many varieties of Unix and Linux over the years, and while I have certain preferences, I'm not that bound to any one particular variant that I've tried.