Anil DashIt's the year of Unix on the gravetop! https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
Truly nothing would have made Unix advocates more confused and upset in the late 80s than if I’d have told them “everyone will be using Unix on the desktop in the 2020s, but they’ll call it… Windows and the Mac.“
Bryan Ruby@anildash I still get macOS users upset with me when I point out that they're using Unix. Now owning a Mac Mini for a year and a half...I upset macOS users when I tell them I still prefer Linux on my desktop. If you knew Unix in the 80s and 90s...it's difficult to get past Unix as anything but your north star.
Thiago Figueiró@bryanruby @anildash I’ve used Linux desktops and laptops. In the 90s, I remember patching the kernel myself so the LAN driver would work. In the 00s I played the game of “what basic laptop feature won’t work OOTB on Linux?” Sometimes it would be the wireless, others the sound, but often the standby when closing the lid. macOS needs to get a lot worse before I go back to any of that.
@thiagocsf @anildash Memories! I too remember patching the kernel to get my external USB Wi-Fi to play nicely with Linux. Frustrating times! You might be surprised how easy the various Linux distributions install these days. Ubuntu, LInux Mint, and Fedora are all distributions I found "just work". Despite my preference being Linux I use mac OS, Linux, and Windows equally. Maybe controversial, but as far as usage goes I don't see any of them that ahead of the other.
@bryanruby @anildash I agree! Horses for courses, right? The windows terminal support keeps getting better, but I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to #PowerShell. When corporate jobs required me to use windows, #Cygwin was always a welcome oasis.