How does that matter, though? You're complaining that macOS is different from Linux. That's the salient point. And, duh: they're different OSes. macOS is ju

How does that matter, though? You're complaining that macOS is different from Linux. That's the salient point. And, duh: they're different OSes. macOS is just as different from Linux as any other OS out there is. And macOS is closer to Linux than some (like Windows). You initially said, seemingly implying this was a "false cool thing": > Developers wax poetic about 'oh its a UNIX' I don't think they meant what you think they meant by that. When people said that (back in the early '00s), people were familiar with Linux, yes, but they also interacted with several other commercial UNIXes that were still in wide use at the time (like those mentioned by the GP), as well as the BSDs. Being able to treat macOS like a UNIX (or, more specifically, like a BSD) was a big step up in convenience from Mac OS Classic. No one expected macOS to be like Linux, at least not in the ways you are talking about.