On: Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

[pmkary]

When you're small, you need the certificates and badges others give you to be seen and be validated. I really don't think anyone needs to become familiar with Apple or macOS and that any of these certificates now matter a tiny amount to a multi trillion dollar corporation.

Given the amount and volume of software that mac has, the fact that almost all new interesting stuff are released for mac first or even mac alone, I also don't think it needs to attach itself to bigger names for platforms.

I think the financial burden of Ubuntu Mobile, Unity 8, and Mir; and the immediate rise of docker and WSL made canonical fully shift to server, so much so that their website no longer is about a better os for people, but what can it do for your cloud. Other distros also followed its path and Linus became all in on servers and IoT. I see windows as the biggest pile of trash in the world. Infinitely inconsistent, buggy, patched worked, visionless and rotting. Honestly that is one piece of software that is worse that AI slop.

And so what is there for Apple to compete with honestly? Haiku? Solaris?

[ffsm8 → pmkary]

> I see windows as the biggest pile of trash in the world.

I mean I don't disagree with that, but you're in dire need of a reality check wrt Apple's dominance

It's not even the most used OS. It's userbase has certainly grown over the last 20 years, but it's still at <30% on desktop...

There are however some demographics in which it's more represented, and that's probably just such a bubble where you're coming from

[jen20 → ffsm8]

Usage and quality are not particularly correlated, though.

[ffsm8 → jen20]

I never said they were?

And if you're honest, macOS has sadly dropped in quality too...

But the reason why I wrote my comment was just that you gave off the feeling that you consider macOS to be the only relevant desktop operating system, which seemed like a very strange view to have given the reality of it's userbase.