If there was another good daily driver that also was built around systemd (or perhaps kubernetes) and a broad range of well integrated Wayland desktops, maybe perhaps possibly. Those two define the basics of my userland are my must have.
Ask HN: If Unix gets more popular would you use it instead of Linux?
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#12Termux
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#13MacOS 26 Tahoe is Unix certified[0]. It already is more popular than Linux.
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#14I mean...macOS can certainly be considered a Unix, and it is more popular than Linux as a desktop daily driver.
For now. 20XX is the year of the Linux desktop.
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#15Apparently yes, given that I’ve been using macOS for about fifteen years now. And given that the topic seems to imply desktop/laptop use, isn’t macOS already the more popular OS?
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#16Mhm.. probably not FreeBSD is nice but it's too much behind Linux for: performance, drivers support, Wayland, Docker
docker uses linux specific namespace api. Freebsd has since 1999 an more powerful docker alterntive: jails.
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#17Give me a bash shell, g++, perl, the shell tools, and a web browser, and I'm good.
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#18I use macOS. Among other things... :-)
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#19laughably ironic HP-UX officially dies in another month