I can’t imagine working with only Linux or MacOS. With both operating systems at my disposal, there’s nothing I can’t do.
I’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. About 15 years ago, I started using MacOS for certain tasks. Once I added MacOS into the mix, I realized that these two operating systems go together like, well, peanut butter and chocolate, rock and roll, or knife and fork. As the years passed, that opinion has only grown stronger — to the point that I can’t imagine myself using one without the other.
Why is this? After all, most people use one desktop operating system and that’s it. Of course, anyone working with both a mobile device and a desktop computer uses two different operating systems. Looking at it that way, I use three: Android, Linux, and MacOS. But I don’t generally count Android in this because I find mobile operating systems far too limiting to help me accomplish the things I do. So, let’s set aside the mobile option and focus only on the desktop.
Before I tell you why I believe MacOS is the perfect complement to Linux, I’d be remiss in not mentioning that this could go either way: If MacOS is your primary operating system, you’d do well to enhance that with Linux.
Regardless… let’s get to it.
Because I’ve been using Linux for so long, the command line is second nature to me. When I first discovered how similar the MacOS command line was to Linux, it eased much of my concern about using the OS. After all, if something can’t be fixed via a GUI, it can almost always be fixed with a command.
