On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 06:00:54PM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: > On 8/17/14, 3:47 PM, FRIGN wrote: > > 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! Go and read [1]. Kind regards, -Alex [1] http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/
