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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Actually its zsh but yeah nothing special.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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