I could quibble with the "Most of" part, most of it is stuff you don't get in MacOS at all, but that aside so what?
This isn't really about alternative ecosystems, it's about complementary ecosystems. There are a lot of people that use MacOS desktops alongside Linux or other Unix machines. For these people having a common set of tools that work the same, so you can use the same command lines and scripts across multiple platforms, is incredibly useful.
This isn't really about alternative ecosystems, it's about complementary ecosystems. There are a lot of people that use MacOS desktops alongside Linux or other Unix machines. For these people having a common set of tools that work the same, so you can use the same command lines and scripts across multiple platforms, is incredibly useful.