XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-28 12:53, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/27/25 8:46 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>> The Mac interface is under-developed.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> In what specific ways?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It simply copies other OSes, being late to the game, never being up   
   >>>>> to date.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Name such a copy.   
   >>>   
   >>> Just the fact that they glued their proprietary system onto Unix   
   >>> tells the story.   
   >>   
   >> Not of supposed "copying" it doesn't.   
   >   
   >   
   > It's not original work.   
      
   Which things aren't original and from what were they copied.   
      
   List at least one specific thing.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>>> Even being a Unix flavor, it fails to act as one out of the box   
   >>>>>>> compared to a Linux distro,   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> In what way?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Is that not obvious to you?  Darwin has a great potential, but it's   
   >>>>> not a complete subsystem.  At the end of the day, Microsoft's WSL 2   
   >>>>> is better, because it implements GUI apps in a seamless-enough way.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In what way is Darwin incomplete?   
   >>>   
   >>> Can I use macOS as a Unix flavor out of the box?   
   >>   
   >> Yup.   
   >   
   >   
   > Who is supporting that?  Certainly not Apple.   
      
   What do you mean by "supporting"?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>>> so it has to be judged by macOS apps specifically, and there are   
   >>>>>>> stellar ones as I mentioned and acknowledged, but on the whole   
   >>>>>>> it's quirky software by comparison to what is common with Windows   
   >>>>>>> and Linux systems.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Give an example of this supposedly "quirky" software and how it is   
   >>>>>> claimed to be "quirky".   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I didn't prefer Mac software, on the whole.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Which doesn't make it quirky.   
   >>>   
   >>> My opinions carry extra weight, because of my identity.   
   >>   
   >> You're a loon.   
   >   
   >   
   > It would be hard for you to see it.   
      
   I see very clearly.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>>>> This is why, objectively, I am right,   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Given that you never offer anything but your personal opinions,   
   >>>>>> the word "objectively"...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ...is objectively being used incorrectly.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If I like something, it must be really good, because I have   
   >>>>> objective tastes and judgments on things.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You're a loony.   
   >>>   
   >>> And yet I have quite a following.   
   >>   
   >> In your head.   
   >   
   >   
   > It's very real and I work hard at deserving it.   
   LOL!   
      
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