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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

Macs have a decent terminal + CLI interface built in, and decent hardware. Also, for many years apple offered huge discounts for students through their university, so many CS students got a macbook for super cheap and just never stepped out of the ecosystem.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The CLI interface is literally just GNU BASH, people need to understand Apple steals everything slaps a fresh coat of paint on it and boasts how innovative they are.

~full disclosure; I'm super jealous andhave always wanted a Mac Pro or Macbook Pro~

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 days ago

Actually its zsh but yeah nothing special.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Unfun fact: it switched from bash to zsh because Apple was butthurt and paranoid about GPL v3. Fuckin' cowards.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

It’s better than power shell or whatever crap is on windows. Even WSL had issues the last time a used it a few years ago. Mac is Unix which Windows will never be.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

PowerShell is like the 1 good product Microsoft has made the las 10 years

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

That is a dangerous opinion. In my mind, Microsoft has made zero good products.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

The fact that Microsoft made it is what keeps me from using it as a daily driver. If it were an open source project I'd use it (on linux even) as my login shell in a heartbeat

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

The main problem is its different from the main POSIX style shells. Just makes it very confusing to use with its own proprietary functions and commands.

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago

But with worse versions of most of the basic utilities.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

apple offered huge discounts for students through their university, so many CS students got a macbook for super cheap and just never stepped out of the ecosystem.

This is the real reason. And I think they couple it with trying to make interface look and behave not how it is in Linux or Windows, so that once you're used to it, you're less comfortable switching to anything else.