[lmm]

I was a Linux diehard for years but I'm very happy with my Surface Book. With "Ubuntu on Windows" you can run the usual unix command line tools; if anything it's more comfortable than OSX since you get up-to-date GNU versions rather than older GNU tools.

[baldfat]

I am also most comfortable with my OpenSUSE but Windows 10 is great and I have OpenSUSE Bash for Windows installed. It really is nice and it is case sensitive! Why is Mac OS OPTIONAL case sensitivity?

[snuxoll]

> Why is Mac OS OPTIONAL case sensitivity?

A relic from HFS of old, there's some notable applications that still fail hard on case-sensitive HFS+/APFS volumes so the default is insensitive (hey, Adobe, I'm looking at you - OS X/macOS 10 has been out for a decade and a half, get your shit together).

[baldfat]

I do contract work for Video/Audio production (Usually fix the crappy audio that they recorded UGH) I ran into that one a few times. Once all my work was over written because I capitalized the fixed files. The other time is we joined all our work into a pool and that crashed every Adobe application working on the job.

[masklinn]

> if anything it's more comfortable than OSX since you get up-to-date GNU versions rather than older GNU tools.

1. By and large, OSX ships the BSD userland not GNU

2. You can trivially add up-to-date GNU tools to OSX: install homebrew, install whichever GNU stuff you want

[damnyou]

I have better things to do with my life than prefix every command with a g.

[skinnymuch]

You don't have to. Many of the commands that you install have simple work arounds so you can use the same command.

[lmm]

Yes, sorry, "Older BSD tools" is what I meant to type.