[rhencke]

Well, for example, Mac OS still ships with a version of Bash from 2007, while in the meantime I can now run pretty much most major Linux distributions in Windows without the need for any VM.

I love my Mac. I do. But, every new release is a little more locked down and a little more proprietary. Gatekeeper and code signing keep getting nudged a little closer to mandatory. For example, if you build your own GDB, you can't use it to debug without going through steps to sign it. dtrace no longer works correctly without additional steps. OpenGL has now been deprecated.

I love my Mac. I've been using them since the original Mac 128k. But, I feel like the writing's on the wall, and in ten to twenty years, the Mac will be a locked down platform like iOS. I hope I'm wrong, but... I've been getting comfortable with Linux on the desktop, in case I'm not.