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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by dhagz on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:27PM (#24344275)
The thing to remember is that, under all the chrome and Apple styling, macOS is rooted in BSD. So the power users who enjoy the *nix-y bits of macOS and are looking for a replacement will look for something that gives them more of that.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by extremeMath on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:25PM (#24345872)
Is this a real thing? Like there are people that don't VM/SSH into Linux but use shell?

What demographic is this? College kids and Apple employees?

It seems like minor benefit in an otherwise atrocious platform.

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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by viro on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:14PM (#24346485)
Over the years I haven't found very many unix tools I couldn't install with homebrew. I'm also a big fan of the move from Bash to ZSH. Why start up a VM or SSH into another machine if I can just use Terminal or Iterm.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by extremeMath on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:40AM (#24352619)
I don't understand.

What commands are you sending your macbook outside installations?

It's not like you are running a server, you still need to SSH into the server to do anything.

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