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[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 8 months 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 8 months 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.

[-] rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago

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

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