macs=scam

Windows has poor security compared to mac (The point all macfags will try to make) But if updated often enough, And with anti virus programs, You wont get virus's.
Macs are a candy coated idiot proof version of a PC. Those who know nothing of computers will think "Oh yay a mac, It's pretty, It cant get virus's, It's perfect for me, It's hip". Yet windows is just in general more powerful. There are a HANDFULL of things you cant do on macs that can be done on windows. And im not talking about these little stupid asthetic things like a pretty download box. Mac is for those who want to surf the web, Download music and edit pictures. Can you do too much more than that? nope. Windows has OPTIONS. Sure it might not be as safe as a mac, But you dont need safe if you're skilled.

tl;dr - Give a skilled hacker something running windows, the possibilitys are endless. Give them a mac and they cant do shit.

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Of course I understand what is Cygwin.  Cygwin calls itself "Linux-like", uses GCC, and uses GNU newlib (which is missing some POSIX and implements some GNU extensions).  This is not POSIX compliant.

Nothing wrong with not being POSIX compliant, except it makes porting applications compatible if they are designed for using POSIX.

When developing for unixlike systems, I read manpages from BSD and SVR4 derived UNIX systems along with the SUS specifications, and then I compare to GNU.  Otherwise, it's easy to write software that only works on glibc/Linux.