Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

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:
 

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.

 
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.
 
Which is not true for Apple’s “Unix”.

 
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.

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

Precisely my point.