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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

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