The inescapable fact is that if you do not want to fully jump into the Apple ecosystem, macOS treats you like a second class citizen.
I don’t find this to be true at all.
I also use Homebrew to install apps and casks, etc. and I’m running on Ventura.
I spend most of my time in WezTerm (was an iTerm user for many years) doing development… but I can use what Gruber calls Mac-assed Mac apps, which are the super useful indie apps which embody the original ethos of macOS apps.
That’s the beauty IMHO of the Mac today—best of breed native (NOT Electron) apps combined with all the power and flexibility of OSS GUI and terminal based apps.
It’s a different experience using apps in a fast, truecolor (16 million colors), GPU-accelerated, with full OpenType support terminal emulator.
What doesn’t get enough attention: the workflows and automations that can be created that aren’t possible on other platforms, since Apple Events are baked into the Cocoa/AppKit layer all the way down to the Unix layer.
Non-developers can use Automator or Shortcuts [1] to create workflows that combine the best features of GUI apps and the command line.
I don’t find this to be true at all.
I also use Homebrew to install apps and casks, etc. and I’m running on Ventura.
I spend most of my time in WezTerm (was an iTerm user for many years) doing development… but I can use what Gruber calls Mac-assed Mac apps, which are the super useful indie apps which embody the original ethos of macOS apps.
That’s the beauty IMHO of the Mac today—best of breed native (NOT Electron) apps combined with all the power and flexibility of OSS GUI and terminal based apps.
It’s a different experience using apps in a fast, truecolor (16 million colors), GPU-accelerated, with full OpenType support terminal emulator.
What doesn’t get enough attention: the workflows and automations that can be created that aren’t possible on other platforms, since Apple Events are baked into the Cocoa/AppKit layer all the way down to the Unix layer.
Non-developers can use Automator or Shortcuts [1] to create workflows that combine the best features of GUI apps and the command line.
[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/automator/welcome/mac