For me, it's so very nice to have the full power of a unix shell underneath a very elegant GUI. I know some people will argue they can get the same GUI (or eve

For me, it's so very nice to have the full power of a unix shell underneath a very elegant GUI. I know some people will argue they can get the same GUI (or even better) in other environments, and I also know some people will argue they can get the full power of unix in other environments (ex: cygwin). For me, Apple comes with this setup out of the box, I don't waste copious amounts of time configuring it, it just works (for the most part).