>> > The world you're living in is the walled garden of OS X. >> > It's your choice to either attempt to improve it, which is futile, or >> > enter a world in which improvement is possible in the first place. >> >> I have to use OS X sometimes for work. > > I have to too, from time to time. > >> It's still a general-purpose operating system, and you can still run >> arbitrary programs on it. > > That's true, but you don't aim very high here. > >> It is closer to BSD than Linux, aside from the GUI layer. > > No. OSX is not usable for anything without the proprietary pieces. I > personally don't trust a system that needs blobs to run, and I think > that's the way to go. > >> But it ships with a working X server, and it has a working C compiler, >> so st worked fine until a few commits ago right out of the box. > > Don't make yourself at home on OSX! > >> I use it when I use OS X because I like using the same tools >> everywhere. > > Don't make yourself at home on OSX! > >> And I use suckless tools because their simplicity makes them easy to >> port everywhere. > > Don't make yourself at home on OSX! > >> I will never be at home the way one can be in a system built one's >> self, but my preferred working environment is not so complex that I >> can't replicate it almost anywhere I need it. So regardless of >> Steven's goals, I appreciate his efforts that will, in the end, make >> the time I spend wading in the GUI sewage of OS X so much less >> painful. > > Don't make yourself at home on OSX!
Obviously we're all entitled to our own opinions. But this discussion has gotten very far off-track. My original question was answered satisfactorily already, so this thread is largely "OS X sucks and only fools use it" over and over, which is a waste of everyone's time.
