I’d rather a Mac than a Windows box. At least you get a proper shell (zsh or bash - zsh is the default now I think), python installed by default, can install package managers (macports, brew), can get coreutils, etc and most FOSS software from the Linux world runs since macs are UNIX at heart.
I’m pretty sure cd isn’t even coreutils but implemented by shells as a wrapper for chdir/fchdir which is part of the kernel. Which has always bugged me since you can’t reliably pipe or redirect to cd since shells do things differently; it doesn’t handle stdin or the last component of a command runs in a subshell so doesn’t affect your current shell, blah blah.
i fucking love wrappers, i wanna be the best wrapper alive. my schizo theory is that we’re in a simulation and the entire english language is just wrappers for insanely nested ruby function calls
I’d rather a Mac than a Windows box. At least you get a proper shell (zsh or bash - zsh is the default now I think), python installed by default, can install package managers (macports, brew), can get coreutils, etc and most FOSS software from the Linux world runs since macs are UNIX at heart.
I’m pretty sure
cdisn’t even coreutils but implemented by shells as a wrapper forchdir/fchdirwhich is part of the kernel. Which has always bugged me since you can’t reliably pipe or redirect tocdsince shells do things differently; it doesn’t handlestdinor the last component of a command runs in a subshell so doesn’t affect your current shell, blah blah.i fucking love wrappers, i wanna be the best wrapper alive. my schizo theory is that we’re in a simulation and the entire english language is just wrappers for insanely nested ruby function calls