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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:16:39 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
      
   > The Apple-centric software *largely* sucks (although selected apps are   
   > great, Microsoft Office and Adobe's stuff are better than on Windows,   
   > imo), the Unix features are incomplete.   
      
   There was a thing called “the Unix philosophy”. Though perhaps we should   
   nowadays call it “the *nix philosophy”.   
      
   One of its principles is “mechanism, not policy”. The OS kernel and core   
   userland should, as far as possible, not prejudge the ways in which users,   
   developers and admins may want to deploy the system; let them configure   
   it, and build higher custom layers on top of it, to do whatever they want.   
      
   Consider how *nix display servers like X11, and now Wayland, conform to   
   this philosophy, by being separate modular, replaceable layers that   
   operate entirely in userland. And they are not GUIs in themselves: the   
   actual GUIs are additional higher layers on top of them, that are modular   
   and replaceable in themselves.   
      
   Consider how Apple breaks this philosophy, by inextricably binding its   
   particular conception of a GUI tightly into its OS kernel.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)