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> The command line is king in Linux, BSD, MacOS, AIX, and to a lesser extent Windows. These operating systems were crafted from the bottom up with the commandli
by steve1977 2y ago
> The command line is king in Linux, BSD, MacOS, AIX, and to a lesser extent Windows. These operating systems were crafted from the bottom up with the commandline as a foundational layer.
This is definitively not true for macOS.
- skydhash 2y agoMacOS is a very complete, very well funded desktop environment targeted towards the general user. You want anything extras and you land in applications using private apis and the command line.
- steve1977 2y agoThe command line is not a "foundational layer" in macOS, that was my point. It exists on the same layer as the GUI does.
- thesuperbigfrog 2y agoThe foundation of MacOS is a fully-compliant Unix: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm The GUI is built on top of the Unix foundation and does not stand alone or work without it. The 'FoxTrot' comic made a big deal about this not long after Mac OS X was released: https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25 https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25
- steve1977 2y agoThe foundation of macOS contains elements of UNIX (or rather BSD) and the OS is UNIX certified, I‘m fully aware of that. But these are two different things. For one thing, UNIX != command line. In the same vein, Windows NT is not based on DOS anymore, even if it has a command line which resembles (parts of) DOS.