In all seriousness, even the same media software, like Pro Tools, is more versatile on Mac than on Windows. I can say that with first-hand experience.

The “dumbed-down” Apple device is the iPhone. You get admin privileges on MacOS like a big boy. You can use bash or zsh commands in Terminal all you want.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

You get admin privileges on MacOS like a big boy. You can use bash or zsh commands in Terminal all you want.

Cool. So try updating to a version of Bash from the last 15 years, because the pre-installed one is Bash 3, because Bash 4 and 5 are under the GPLv3 license, which Apple won't comply with.

...ah, no, you can't update the pre-installed Bash, because it's on a section of the file system that is read-only even with admin access. You can install Bash 5 as a separate shell, and use that as your default terminal shell, but any scripts written with the standard #!/bin/bash instead of the more flexible #!/usr/bin/env bash will still use Bash 3.

This "handholding" (or really, a safety net) is arguably a good thing, or at least a positive tradeoff; but you can't claim it doesn't exist.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I'm not sure what you mean. I have updated bash with a single homebrew command.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the linked Q&A?

What do you get if you run /bin/bash --version?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's been a long time since I even did this, and I've gotten at least one new machine since. I got several replies so I'll just link my original response: https://lemmy.world/comment/11431853

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just because it doesn't matter for most users doesn't mean it isn't a real limitation. I acknowledged as much in my original comment.

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