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> all too often we sit down at high powered macs

I think you mean you. I don't and never have done that, and I suspect millions of windows developers have not either.

I think they mean them, and the obviously-high percentage of developers that use Macs compared to the general population of users. Which, ironically, skews the percentage of Windows users lower than most other demographics.

In fact, how dare you forget the Linux users when writing your comment?!

Faced with the option to pay higher costs for incredibly good hardware, or to run any of the many *nix distros, you chose to have meh hardware, and a restrictive OS that is built as a GUI first, terminal a distant second.

Just… why.

As someone with years of windows and Linux experience, yes the Linux shell is quite good, but mac bsd shell is terrible, even compared to powershell

Bash is bash, zsh is zsh; how are they different? coreutils differs, sure, and I dislike BSD’s implementation of them, but that’s why gnu-coreutils exists.

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