[rswail]

> I've appreciated Mac being Unix-like

Mac is a Unix. Darwin is a BSD. It has its own PID1, launchctl, instead of systemd.

It's not* a Linux-like (Kernel ABI is different) but if you work with Macports, you can make your userspace a clone of Linux. There's very little that I can't get for Macports that is on Linux (not GUI stuff).

You can get plenty of the equivalent "native linux CLI". Macports for native, lima or minikube to run linux containers. Virtualbox et al for running linux VMs.