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   From: vallor@cultnix.org   
      
   On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:24:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro   
    wrote in <108g3f6$32gqg$14@dont-email.me>:   
      
   > 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.   
      
    ...not unlike other Unix workstations of yore.   
      
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