[postmodest]

There is a FreeBSD fork that does exactly that, but to use it you need to buy a $3000 hardware dongle....

That's the path a lot of Mac Users are on, though we also have a telemetry problem; the only advantage is that it stays "in house".

[okanat]

Mac has never been power user friendly.

[washadjeffmad]

> never

Oh, yes it was. The Macintosh was once a platform for independent professionals and small businesses to build their own software using native tooling. The add-in cards you could buy for the Apple II would shock you in today's anti-consumer ownership war being waged by vendors.

[joshspankit]

I’d say it’s actually been power-user friendly 3 times:

1. The Apple II

2. Late 80s/early 90s when screen savers and [I can’t remember the name. Something makes me want to say ‘shell extensions’? small apps that made deep and wondrous tweaks to the system] were allowed to experiment with almost complete freedom

3. OSX. The first version was specifically designed for power users who had existing Unix/Linux skills. Special shout-out to some of the early tools as well: Automator, Quartz Composer, Audio Unit Lab, and even Applescript.

[qwytw]

> FreeBSD fork

Isn't NeXTSTEP quite a bit older than FreeBSD?

[ign0ramus]

What's the name of the fork?

[bbatsell]

They are jokingly referring to macOS, which is descendant from a fork of BSD with the Mach kernel.

[elkhadiy]

He used a periphrasis to mean macos.