Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-04 16:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 22:48:38 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
 

How about you go away and actually use some proper *nix systems for a
few years, then you can come back and show us how you’ve answered the
question for yourself.

 In particular, go look up something called the “Unix philosophy”.
 The OS+userland core is just a toolkit: its job is to provide mechanism,
not policy. Policy is something that should be configurable for a
particular application/installation, by the users/administrators of that
application/installation.
 Logically, this extends to the GUI toolkits as well: they should provide
tools for constructing GUIs, without mandating how a particular GUI should
look. This is why we have themes, for example. Look at how the
architecture of X11, and its successor Wayland, both facilitate this way
of looking at things, while Apple’s (and Microsoft’s) GUI-integrated-into-
the-kernel do not.
 Remember: “mechanism, not policy”.

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