Hmph. An anonymous blog from someone that's only been using MacOS for three months. Why is this here? There are some Linux-y things that MacOS gets really, rea

Hmph. An anonymous blog from someone that's only been using MacOS for three months. Why is this here? There are some Linux-y things that MacOS gets really, really wrong: - package management. There is a lot of very good open source software that can potentially run on MacOS. If you want to use any of it with a reasonable package manager, you're pretty much forced to choose between either Homebrew or MacPorts, both of which are incompatible with each-other, and neither of which is complete. - the init system, launchd. I'm not super stoked to see systemd gaining ground in Linux, given the occasional troubles with launchd. When launchd works -- and it usually does, to be fair -- it works well and you never think about it. When it doesn't work however, when there's some kind of system problem traced back to something in launchd, good f_cking luck. I hope you really love XML. - user management. It's really easy to create a hidden user in MacOS which will have full access to the session of a logged-in user. (I took advantage of this to play a fun prank on a former employer once.) Desktop Linux kinda-sorta potentially has this problem too, but MacOS exacerbates it with the way it handles user management in system preferences.