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Or Android, or iOS, or a Chromebook, or whatever other OS you’re using next year, if it isn’t some sort of Linux/UNIX system… and even some of those might not be great, but at least you can find out.

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sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean… Android and ChromeOS are Linux underneath. MacOS is… related to Unix. Hang on, I need to look up that lineage…

Also Lineage.

Edit: MacOS used/uses the Mach kernel, and uses code “derived from BSD”, vague as Wikipedia is. That could mean it’s a whole copy-paste or that it just borrows ideas from BSD.

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- jungekatz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)
  
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- vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  MacOS has userland tools from some FreeBSD version (quite obsolete, IIRC). Also there’s a port of bhyve called xhyve for MacOS. Its kernel I wouldn’t expect to have much in common with BSDs.
  
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jungekatz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Tbh i have used linux on my home pc for years now and now they are very polished products , except most corporate apps are not there !

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somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Android isn’t in that list if you’re using something like LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

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- essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I suspect that’s a fraction of a percent of Android devices, though.
  
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  - somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That doesn’t matter, where is popularity mentioned as a disqualifier? it should be mentioned for those that might be interested to know that they have an option for privacy. I hate the defeatist attitude that everything tracks, so why try? It’s wrong, I use LineageOS and Linux and FOSS apps/software and selfhost services… if it’s something you care about, you can regain control and privacy over your data.
    
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