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		eloisant 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The MacBook Neo They already cannibalized a lot of Linux users, developers mainly when they released MacOS X around year 2000. Suddenly you could have a Unix, with pretty much the same CLI as Linux but without all the supported hardware/driver issues. Laptop sleep in particular was pretty finicky. If MacOS didn't pick a Unix/BSD base, I'm pretty sure all the tech companies running Mac would be on Linux.

nottorp 28 days ago | [–]

They seem to be trying hard to annoy developers lately though.

<cough> xattr...

Apocryphon 28 days ago | | [–]

BeOS, anyone?

znpy 28 days ago | | [–]

Clearly not

throw0101d 28 days ago | [–]

> They already cannibalized a lot of Linux users, developers mainly when they released MacOS X around year 2000.

FoxTrot comic from 2002:

* https://archive.is/https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/...

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