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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17018864

I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn't know we already passed 4%.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Because everybody knows who it's made by (one of the biggest corps who hates freedom). Just because one brick of a building is open source doesn't mean the entire building is great.

Might as well promote a Chinese Linux distro and ignore the possible implications of its source.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

UNIX != open source.

In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's built on top of BSD, which is opensource.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

Everything you said was a straw man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can’t vouch for what it’s based on but I’ve always read the first release of macOS (then Mac OS X) was based on FreeBSD 4.2, not OpenBSD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You might be right. In either case, the argument stands but thanks for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

😂 I can't help you if your reading comprehension is low dude.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I wouldn’t want your help anyway, considering you think your reading comprehension is better than mine. 😆

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here’s another one for you, my reading comprehension-challenged Internet friend.

macOS is actually UNIX 03 certified. It doesn’t get any more UNIX than that. 😉

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3700.htm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.