Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by tyteen4a03 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:19AM
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Homebrew works for me. It's unfortunate how behind Apple's toolchain is, but I interact with its GUI more than the terminal.
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by lokedhs on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:24PM
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It worked for me as well, but it was a constant hassle.
Once I realised that I barely used any Mac-specific software anymore, the choice to move back to Linux was easy.
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by not_kurt_godel on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:10PM
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Just use zsh instead of bash, it's superior anyways.
I am aware that at least one of the reasons for Apple to ship stone-age versions of everything from Emacs to GCC is that they hate GPL3. But the reasons don't matter when the latest version of their operating system is unable to run modern software without installing a set of packages that more or less replaces all of the Unix tools. When you have to do that, it doesn't really matter if you install those tools on top of Windows or OSX.
As for myself I find Windows to be absolutely unusable and I was using Linux up until around 2002 when I switched h to the Mac. Lately however, Apple's utter disregard for technical users that prefer the Unix experience has made me switch back to Linux, and while Linux has issues of its own, at least everything works out of the box without having to deal with an entire separate ecosystem of packages on top of what is provided by the operating system itself.