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In case you haven't noticed, a majority of people on Windows or macOS use software that was originally part of the "UNIX software stack" -- between SSH, bash, G
by waddlesplash 8y ago
In case you haven't noticed, a majority of people on Windows or macOS use software that was originally part of the "UNIX software stack" -- between SSH, bash, GCC, FFmpeg, etc. I am pretty sure you could find at least one piece of "originally UNIX" software that at least a majority of programmers using any given OS use.
Anyway, I think you miss the point of Haiku if you think it'll never get anywhere because of how much UNIX software runs on it. It's not here just to "be different from everyone else." The POSIX API makes a lot of sense; anyone going against it has to have a particularly good reason to do so. Even Apple doesn't, for the most part.
- scroot 8y agoUnix is indeed ubiquitous, but it would be nice to have a personal computing system whose core metaphor is something other than a teletype.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI've had this argument with you before and I'm not really interested in having it again. Suffice it to say that I have a different idea of what a personal computer should be than you or the parts of the Haiku community who are left.
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- tonyedgecombe 8y agoA majority of programmers on Windows perhaps, certainly not a majority of people on Windows.
- pjmlp 8y agoNot even the majority, UNIX refugees, yes.