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Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux (www.youtube.com)
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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I wish it was then it may make sense. Every time I use the MacOS terminal. It's like an uncanny valley so similar but the more you look the more horrific it becomes. I can't even say it's Unix is the problem as freebsd makes complete sense.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response. I'm ignorant in this topic. How is MacOS horrific?

[–] dan@upvote.au 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For one, some of the coreutils are weird. They aren't BSD coreutils, but they're not GNU coreutils either. They're like an old version of BSD coreutils with some GNU features added.

[–] unrealapex@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

I didn't know that. When I was searching for a new computer last month, I considered a Macbook because I liked BSD utilities more. I ended up buying a Thinkpad T14 and booting Chimera Linux(actually uses BSD utilities) on it.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

macOS may not be FreeBSD, but it definitely is a BSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix#/media/File:Unix_history-simple.svg

[–] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)
[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Whatever else it may be, macos most certainly Is Unix unfortunately

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Yeah it's Unix but all the paths and utilities are all out of wack from what I'm used to on freebsd and Linux distros