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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perfect examples of why OSX is an Unix-like just like GNU/Linux. It's got a shared history with the original Unix, but isn't literally Unix. This community is around Unix-likes, and under the Unix-like banner, I'd gladly welcome ReactOS. WSL isn't in the spirit of it though.

OSX has been on a number of occasions actively hostile towards FLOSS as well (particularly anything GPL), which in the last decades, have become synonymous with Unix-likes, though that's a matter of personal taste. What isn't a matter of taste however, is that OSX uses the XNU kernel, which is an acronym for X is Not Unix. It is not a monolithic Unix style kernel either. I would argue that OSX is only loosely Unix-like, and only mimics Unix functions for compatibility. Should Apple have the inclination, they would happily abandon it for something invented by them given the opportunity.

Not picking a fight with you over semantics, I just loathe Apple as a business and Microsoft gets a lot of flack for their old "Embrace Extend Extinguish" policies when Apple has been exceptionally hostile towards OSS. Apple so often gets a pass when being considered a part of Unix communities yet they absolutely do not embrace the spirit of Unix-likes and FLOSS at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hostile towards OSS makes them more like commercial UNIX imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a nit to be sure. Microsoft's insistence on PowerShell nowhere and never is beyond mystifying. Apple at least wraps it's XNU in "standard" libs + shells. WSL is a pile of flaming trash, a footnote to an afterthought.

With MacOS, Terminal is x-term'ish, shell is zsh, and ls is ls OOTB. It's easy to see why people get confused.

With Windows, there is no terminal, Powershell is an alien quagmire, and ls is Get-ChildItem. It's easy to see why people get confused :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wsl is the bare minimum to make me feel less uncomfortable on windows, even if it's just for file operations and to ssh into a real computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol - it is more tolerable, isn't it. Still, whenever I hear that, I always think of - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biHJ6S91xBY (work safe)

[–] Scoopta 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind Dave Cutler, the guy who designed NT, hates Unix and thinks its design is a dumpster fire. No surprise that any Unix stuff in windows is very much an after thought and bolted on.