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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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~

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually its zsh but yeah nothing special.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 1 week 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 1 week ago

But with worse versions of most of the basic utilities.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 week 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.