Comment by DCKing

Of course it's easy to straw-man this particular sentence. However many people - including me, once - bought a MacBook because it was the easiest way to get proper Unix tools like SSH at your fingertips.

Using PuTTY or Mingw tools on Windows sucks compared to using them on a Unix-based system. I gotta say the Windows Subsystem for Linux really helps in that regard - as does native SSH in cmd an PowerShell (PowerShell by itself is also pretty awesome once you get the hang of it). Linux did not use to be such a great competitor for the rest of desktop usage (some will argue it still isn't).