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> I should have just bought a Mac a decade earlier. Can confirm: I have never sysadminned for myself recreationally. After I bungled an Arch upgrade (by failin
by mauvehaus 3y ago
> I should have just bought a Mac a decade earlier.
Can confirm: I have never sysadminned for myself recreationally. After I bungled an Arch upgrade (by failing to read the notes) I bought a Mac and haven't looked back. Yeah, it ships with a weird awk, and the GNU tools it comes with are pretty dated, but it's close enough for basically everything I want it to do.
- aperture147 3y agoIMO, most of people who always flex bout their skill on using arch or kali linux doesn't really use it and don't have basic knowledge about unix/linux. As a DevOps and sometimes be sysadmin, I've interviewed a lot of self-proclaimed "hacker" (most of them are young) and most of them lack of fundamental knowledge about process, memory and networking, when they are the most important thing to do anything seriously in linux/unix. > it's close enough for basically everything I want it to do. People has been making argument for years about the best distro and which distro makes them look like a god. Now, anything which helps me do my job as fast as I can is the best and I think Debian/Ubuntu is the best distro to work with. Large user base, familiar interface and pretty up-to-date software is the selling point of Debian/Ubuntu.
- wilkystyle 3y agoAs a Mac user, this also bugged me. One thing that helped was to... brew install coreutils ... and then adding gnubin to my path so I can use them without the "g" prefix: PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH" Now I no longer have to remember idiosyncrasies of the macOS versions, such as: # macOS cp -R # Linux cp -r