[mattmanser]

Hehe, this feels like the typical oblivious hacker answer that begins "So do X complicated thing instead".

People paid for simplicity. Engage your empathetic brain to understand why people don't want to make their lives complicated, instead of trying to invent another jury-rigged workaround.

You can go dig through the HN archives around 2005 when everyone started switching to Macs. You will see the people delighted with their purchase in the comments, how much easier it made developers lives to have a working, powerful laptop that actually supported Linux commands.

[C1sc0cat]

UM having a native x access to your dev machines (which are full tech copies of live) is simpler - rather than this more modern method of every one developing locally on different hardware and a different os.