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> My system is harder to use" is not a selling point. No one is trying to sell you a system. If you want your software to work well on Red Hat, Debian, and BSD
by choeger 6y ago
> My system is harder to use" is not a selling point.
No one is trying to sell you a system. If you want your software to work well on Red Hat, Debian, and BSD then you either play with their respective standards or you let the maintainers do their job. Just stop whining that these systems are not windows and you need someone to that work for free but exactly the way you want it done.
If you feel well inside Apples walled garden, have fun there, but don't come complaining when some Unix tool or programming language does not work there.
And no, Red Hat or Debian is not harder to use than MacOS. It just supports way more nontrivial use cases out of the box. That comes with a certain complexity. If you don't need that, no one suggests you run it on your desktop.
- untog 6y ago"It's not harder to use it's just more complex" is a wonderful summation of Linux on the Desktop™
- jabirali 6y ago> No one is trying to sell you a system. [...] If you don't need that, no one suggests you run it on your desktop. I disagree. People have been recommending Linux to people with non-complex needs for a long time, especially since Ubuntu went mainstream. “No one suggests you run it on your desktop” is thus wrong. > If you feel well inside Apples walled garden, have fun there, but don't come complaining when some Unix tool or programming language does not work there. Is this really an issue? As far as I’ve heard, macOS is a POSIX-compatible system with a BSD userland, and most Unix tools work fine. Checking out the Homebrew repos, it seems like all the Unix tools I’m used to are there. And even some Linux-specific systems like FUSE have been ported to macOS. As far as I can tell, macOS thus supports Unix tools and programming languages as well as most Linux distros.