this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
1203 points (95.1% liked)

linuxmemes

21428 readers
756 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
    •  

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    1203
    Does sanitizer work instead (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
    130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    macOS is UNIX. If your workflow is heavy on the command line, it feels pretty similar to Linux, which is no surprise. The userspace is definitely different (it's not GNU) but if you ssh into a macOS box, you should feel pretty much at home.

    I feel like a lot of these flame wars are basically just "I like Y GUI better." Which is one of the great things about Linux of course, that I can run i3 and you can run Plasma. For me, having a more-or-less unified (command line) interface across my Linux laptop, my various home lab SBCs, my VPS, and my work laptop is pretty nice.

    (And yes. I would much, much, much prefer i3 to yabai on macOS.)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    If your workflow is heavy on the command-line you'd probably get more value out of Windows with WSL than you would from MacOS... At least then it's Linux everywhere rather than having to remember the differences between GNU coreutils and MacOS coreutils.

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

    Sure, but you can also brew install coreutils on macOS.

    My point is only that macOS is UNIX. Linux looks a whole lot like UNIX**. But no matter how much you squint, Windows isn't UNIX. Which is completely fine, and everyone is entitled to prefer whatever OS they choose. For me personally, macOS feels familiar. I will always choose Linux if I have the choice, but barring that, I'll take an OS where I can rsync over my .zshrc and .vimrc with minimal shenanigans.

    **And in some cases is UNIX

    EulerOS, a Linux distro, was UNIX-certified.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    But it is. WSL is linux. With most distros available. Macos with coreutils is macos with coreutils.

    load more comments (12 replies)