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This is neat, but I can't think of a single non-GUI tool on OS X that I need or doesn't have an equivalent in Linux...
Photoshop? And Scrivener. The OS X variant is a full major version ahead of Windows, and it isn't even supported on Linux.
It'll super useful when/if it supports XCode + Mac Developer Tools for iOS development. I think that's the main thing keeping app developers on their Macs.
That simply is not true. Most of the people that likes commodities of UNIX, nice UI and long battery life in combination with nice hardware uses Macs. Even people who do not do any iOS development. There is no such thing as Mac Dev tools, (maybe just iOS related but there aren't many that you do for that process besides Xcode). I use my Mac like I used Linux and FreeBSD, package manager check, nice terminal check, Em…
This is an untrue generalization. I know people who have a Mac, yet do all of their actual coding within containers set up to use some flavor of Linux and never really touch the underlying OS. Macs DO have solid, reliable hardware underneath, but the insinuation that there is no reason you need to run a true POSIX compliant OS vs MacOS is definitely not a hard and fast truth.
I really like Linux as a backup plan, in case Apple totally drops the ball on professionals on the Mac.
The Linux desktop is getting pretty good, but it lacks well designed high quality GUI applications. If porting to Linux was done easier that could change.
This is neat, but I can't think of a single non-GUI tool on OS X that I need or doesn't have an equivalent in Linux...
Photoshop? And Scrivener. The OS X variant is a full major version ahead of Windows, and it isn't even supported on Linux.
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That simply is not true. Most of the people that likes commodities of UNIX, nice UI and long battery life in combination with nice hardware uses Macs. Even people who do not do any iOS development. There is no such thing as Mac Dev tools, (maybe just iOS related but there aren't many that you do for that process besides Xcode). I use my Mac like I used Linux and FreeBSD, package manager check, nice terminal check, Em…
No, Windows had an Unix subsystem since forever, and WSL helps switchers more than ever actually.
This is neat, but I can't think of a single non-GUI tool on OS X that I need or doesn't have an equivalent in Linux...
Photoshop? And Scrivener. The OS X variant is a full major version ahead of Windows, and it isn't even supported on Linux.
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That simply is not true. Most of the people that likes commodities of UNIX, nice UI and long battery life in combination with nice hardware uses Macs. Even people who do not do any iOS development. There is no such thing as Mac Dev tools, (maybe just iOS related but there aren't many that you do for that process besides Xcode). I use my Mac like I used Linux and FreeBSD, package manager check, nice terminal check, Em…
> Anyone that likes commodities of UNIX... This is an untrue generalization. I know people who have a Mac, yet do all of their actual coding within containers set up to use some flavor of Linux and never really touch the underlying OS. Macs DO have solid, reliable hardware underneath, but the insinuation that there is no reason you need to run a true POSIX compliant OS vs MacOS is definitely not a hard and fast truth…
> Why “Darling”? >The name Darling is a combination of “Darwin” and “Linux”. >Darwin is the core operating system OS X and iOS build on. If that's the case, why not Darlin? But then, I'm southern so that's why it makes more sense to me.
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Believe me, it is not. All Android and WP developers I know also used Macs. :)
Interesting, the Android and WP developers I know use PCs running Linux... since the plural of "anecdote" is "statistics" I wonder how we proceed from here
> Why “Darling”? >The name Darling is a combination of “Darwin” and “Linux”. >Darwin is the core operating system OS X and iOS build on. If that's the case, why not Darlin? But then, I'm southern so that's why it makes more sense to me.
I was looking at emacs documentation the other day and thought that RMS is probably right that Linux should be called GNU/Linux. In that case, newcomers to this project might ask "What's GNU Darlin?