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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually its zsh but yeah nothing special.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Unfun fact: it switched from bash to zsh because Apple was butthurt and paranoid about GPL v3. Fuckin' cowards.

But with worse versions of most of the basic utilities.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 7 months 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.