alt Hacker NewsWSL is such a pain compared to just using a unix os from the get, which is of course what macos is. People forget that it is in fact a unix distro.
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p_l • today at 10:38 AM
No, people don't.
It's just that mishmash of OSFMK (with BSD APIs of 1991 or so) with random additions of newer APIs does not necessarily make it a great Unix to work with in 2026
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pjmlp • today at 11:19 AM
Except UNIX and GNU/Linux aren't the same thing, which is why so many folks keep complaining about their UNIX experience in macOS.
They buy macOS and then complain macOS isn't Linux, duh!
bayindirh • today at 10:38 AM
a UNIX distro which interfaces well with Linux. A fact which makes life way easier in the interoperability department.
Unix certification requires things like case sensitive file systems, which MacOS can do, but doesn't so they had to supply a special configuration for certification.
So no. The MacOS you use is not Unix.