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I use macOS in large part because its a *nix OS under the hood.

WSL gives a lot of that power to Windows.

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Except it isn't, so e.g. running containers still need a VM.

I wish macOS had something like WSL built-in.

macOS is tempting but it's a pretty bad nix IMHO.

The amount of times I had to change ad-hoc scripts to work around macOS limitations is absurd.

Yeah it’s a tradeoff, that part is worse but everything else is a lot better (battery life, performance, hardware quality, software integration, design etc.)

That’s likely because macOS is BSD-based. (Which may be inconvenient at times, but it doesn’t mean it’s “bad”.)

Not all the world is GNU.

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