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Part of this is that a lot of things have become a lot more tightly coupled with Linux in the past couple decades. OS X Snow Leopard, often positioned as the “b

Part of this is that a lot of things have become a lot more tightly coupled with Linux in the past couple decades. OS X Snow Leopard, often positioned as the “best” macOS release, also had a number of significant differences from Linux, but those differences were more frequently accounted for in software.

wtallis 3y ago
Historically, a lot of it was simply Linux vs BSD differences, but nowadays there's a growing gap from Apple's unwillingness to ship any GPL3 code, leaving them with some tools either stuck in time or replaced with alternatives.