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[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

macOS is UNIX. If your workflow is heavy on the command line, it feels pretty similar to Linux, which is no surprise. The userspace is definitely different (it's not GNU) but if you ssh into a macOS box, you should feel pretty much at home.

I feel like a lot of these flame wars are basically just "I like Y GUI better." Which is one of the great things about Linux of course, that I can run i3 and you can run Plasma. For me, having a more-or-less unified (command line) interface across my Linux laptop, my various home lab SBCs, my VPS, and my work laptop is pretty nice.

(And yes. I would much, much, much prefer i3 to yabai on macOS.)

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's technically Unix, but with randomised directories, with illegible logs, with a lot of the openness taken out and replaced by Apple's "our way or the highway". It's Unix for people who didn't want Unix anyway.

[-] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

Word on the street is that GNU’s not Unix.

[-] rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Being open has nothing to do with Unix. It was a proprietary OS and most of its descendants are still proprietary.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Mac is part the OS, part walled garden experience, and part overpriced, less-upgradable hardware. Plus an overall design approach that values simplicity over configurability while I prefer the opposite.

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago

If your workflow is heavy on the command-line you'd probably get more value out of Windows with WSL than you would from MacOS... At least then it's Linux everywhere rather than having to remember the differences between GNU coreutils and MacOS coreutils.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but you can also brew install coreutils on macOS.

My point is only that macOS is UNIX. Linux looks a whole lot like UNIX**. But no matter how much you squint, Windows isn't UNIX. Which is completely fine, and everyone is entitled to prefer whatever OS they choose. For me personally, macOS feels familiar. I will always choose Linux if I have the choice, but barring that, I'll take an OS where I can rsync over my .zshrc and .vimrc with minimal shenanigans.

**And in some cases is UNIX


EulerOS, a Linux distro, was UNIX-certified.

[-] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But it is. WSL is linux. With most distros available. Macos with coreutils is macos with coreutils.

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