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Comment by Lammy

2 years ago

Aside from the fun of having a CLI on a Mac, I also use it to dump the ROMs from my machines.

e: it also comes with Git (among other utilities) which might make it worth it to some people for that alone.

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flembat  2 years ago

I had forgotten how strange it was to see a terminal in OSX, a huge step sideways, I won't say backwards as it has its uses, but that was also the nasty green screen world I thought we had escaped from...

  • pjmlp  2 years ago

    Yeah, even though I routinely use a mix of CLI and REPL environments, I also don't get the fetish to use computers as I was doing back in 1990 in MS-DOS and Xenix.

    One of the appeals of Amiga was to only dive into the Amiga DOS shell if I really needed to.

  • philistine  2 years ago

    Yeah, when I was younger and a neophyte, I thought it was idiotic that Mac OS X had a command line. Now that I’ve switched to Mac and that I’ve learned how to use it, I wouldn’t move to a platform without strong Unix roots. So what I guess I’m saying is I wouldn’t use Windows.