sudo drop your complex

Your illness is rooted deep into your consciousness. "su" is "switch user" by the way...

Nix is just so normie. Why don't better use Gentoo? That's what an actual nerd with no social life does!!!1!1

I do, but its not really impressive

Everyone uses linux, you have to use bsd to stand out

I don't know if that's accurate. Have you seen PowerShell? It's so good, some people install it on Linux to use as their main shell

The most powerful stuff will always be script/CLI/shell based. Guis only work so and so well, but having multi step procedures requires something else.

Windows included

My mom worked at Software Etc in the 80's.

There were so many more, and better games, for PCs.

The only good games on Mac were ones ported from PC.

I was my mother's official "troubleshooter". If a customer returned a game, she gave it to me, to test.

There were definitely a lot more PC games returned than Mac, but there was almost never anything wrong with them. Probably came down to individual setups.

Which was Mac's strong point. There was no real diversity in hardware, so everything worked.

But all the Mac games SUCKED compared to PC.

Unfortunately, this was also when I was exposed to Ultima IV... and my homework never saw me again.

I'm not so sure but I think back THEN there were less captivating PC games as well. My perspective is from the early 00s Russia, when you had to deal with pirated games, unbelievably slow Internet, funny videos shared between friends on CDs, going with a hard drive to a friend's house just to share your music collection, etc. Basically, we had to know how to do this kind of stuff because the alternative was so expensive. Now with LLMs you don't even have to "google" anymore, so there's no need to know, for example, what a file extension is.

I don't think that's controversial. However, there's two ways people will be encouraged to learn about it. Either the system invites you to tinker, or it doesn't function how you want and requires you to tinker. Apple, in all of their products, mostly does neither. It functions fine, and it is opinionated about how it functions and doesn't invite you to change it.

Sure, there will be curious people who, no matter what, tinker. They don't need to be encouraged. The OP isn't really trying to measure them. They'll be the baseline where there is no measurable difference. The average user is what we want to understand. The average user on Mac isn't expected to understand anything about the system. It just works. Both Windows (historically) and Linux do some amount of inviting you to tinker, and also requiring you to (depending on distro for Linux this may not actually be required). Windows has increasingly locked things down though, and also revert any changes on update more and more frequently.