Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-03 19:43, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 18:34:22 -0700, Alan wrote:
 

On 2025-06-03 18:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 17:14:29 -0700, Alan wrote:
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On 2025-06-03 17:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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When people think “Unix” nowadays, they really mean a Linux or BSD
system. That’s what works they way they expect a “Unix” system to
work. Not Apple.

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And yet the folks who run Linux systems are mostly putting GUIs on top
of them.

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You get the same choice of GUIs on BSD, pretty much. On Linux and BSD,
the GUI is a modular, replaceable layer. Switching GUIs is as easy as
logging out of one and logging into another. Or you can run with no GUI
at all -- the usual case on servers. You know, those servers that
provide the infrastructure for the entire Internet.
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Which is not true for Apple’s “Unix”.

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So having a choice of GUIs somehow makes the underlying OS components
different?

 It is macOS that is “different” from how people expect a “Unix” system to
behave, not the Linuxes and BSDs. Offering a choice of GUIs (or no GUI at
all), is part of how people expect a “Unix” system to behave.

That doesn't even attempt to answer my question.

 

As for "infrastructure of the entire Internet"...
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...what does it matter if there's a GUI or not on those servers...

 Precisely my point.

Which is what?