As an original Macintosh user who discovered programming via HyperCard and Unix through OS X I’d disagree. I think there are a fair number of people like me who can’t bear the ugliness (in all senses) of windows and the time sink of Linux but do love composable open source utilities and text files for parts of our work.

Then you are pretty much aware that until OS X, Mac OS developers and users hardly cared about command line.

Most would only get it via MPW, and outside automating compiler workflows, hardly open the terminal.

That was almost 30 years ago.

People on classic Mac weren’t making web apps running on Linux servers.

Doesn't change the point of culture.

Also many of those people, if they want to deploy on Linux servers, they would be better off using local Linux development, not OS X.

Even if someone exclusively writes software that ends up running on Linux servers, doesn't mean they don't appreciate various nice Mac-exclusive applications as a user during their workday.

An example: I love everything about the Things task management app so much that I would never choose to run a desktop OS it doesn't run on.

I wonder how far this reductio ad absurdum is going to get. Come on, we can get to "just don't use a computer" by teatime!

Over here it is more like Kaffee & Kuchen, but yeah.