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by bastardoperator 1544 days ago

  brew install coreutils
Getting GNU tools on MacOS is super easy and honestly I don't know anyone using ports/fink. All of my development ends up on Linux machines, in rare cases I need something specific to Linux or my production environment, I just connect to a dev machine but for the most part I use MacOS as the primary desktop at work along with everyone else.

For me it's all about workflow. I spend a lot of time in alacritty, vscode, and a browser with bitwarden. I'm covered on every OS with those tools so I've stopped caring about OS all together, I like bits of all of them, and dislike bits of all of them.

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Is brew included with macOS these days? It wasn’t when I did all this. It’s still one more command to get coreutils installed vs. what’s needed on Linux.
Nope. Yeah, well, I don't have to configure anything on MacOS when I plug in three 4k USB-C monitors. Now what? =]
Me neither? Pretty much every major distro (anything using GNOME or KDE) will extend your display just fine.