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How about I just want to access my files remotely after a reboot occurs without having to get to the device at my house? Agreed, though… MacOS isn’t a proper m

• gjsman-1000 1y ago
  macOS is a Unix by pedigree; Linux is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_systems#/media/File:Unix_history-simple.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_systems#/media/Fi... I have to dig out this chart when people complain about macOS's "non-standard utilities." Linux's GNU tools are the ones that aren't standard. If anything, Linux did an "embrace, extend, extinguish" against Unix in general.
  • dangus 1y ago
    I’d add that it is rather prescriptive to declare that macOS is not a “proper multi-user system.” It is quite capable of handling multiple users. Maybe just not in the way that certain people want it to.
  • jen20 1y ago
    It's also not just Unix by pedigree, but also by certification [1]. [1]: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1223p.pdf https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1223p.pdf
• jacobgkau 1y ago
  In addition to the pedigree that someone else pointed out, macOS is also explicitly certified as UNIX by the legal stewards of that name: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ This includes Tahoe specifically: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3725.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3725.htm