MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint

So upgraded the Mac Studio to Sequoia:

$ uname -a
Darwin Mac 24.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0:
Fri Dec  6 18:56:34 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.5~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64

After the initial upgrade from Sonoma, it still had updates
to apply.  This took a while, and included the need for
another reboot -- all to update some xcode crap.

It's a lot easier to update Linux than Windows or MacOS.  Why
it would be such a pain for MacOS to do a simple update, I can
only guess at.

(I suspect it may be that MacOS doesn't have a facility
with the simplicity of Linux's ldconfig(8) for updating
shared libraries.)

Also:

_[/Users/scott/path_max]_(scott@Mac)🍏_
$ make use_pathconf
cc -g -O2 -std=c90 -Wall -Werror -pedantic    use_pathconf.c   -o use_pathconf
_[/Users/scott/path_max]_(scott@Mac)🍏_
$ ./use_pathconf
1024

It's still 1/4 that of Linux.

Although, I did run a find(1) on my fileserver for long pathnames, and
found that the longest was 359 characters...so MacOS would be fine with
that.  Windows?  Not so sure.

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