I switched to Windows 18 months ago and continue to be happy. Only complaint is devs gratuitously ignoring windows support.
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You realise that OSX is the only mainstream certified UNIX in common use, right? It LITERALLY IS a UNIX.
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"certified Unix" is not what literally anyone targets.
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"Certified Unix" is like an MCSE certification for software.
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If people target Linux, SAY Linux. Do not contribute to the semantic mushiness which is already rife.
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I put unix in quotes ("for this" referring to interop). Was responding to someone who said "interop with Unix"
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People target nothing specific. They just add workarounds for platforms they feel morally willing to work with.
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Example: WSL is closer to Linux than OSX is. But people are morally unwilling to add WSL workarounds. Why?
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Can you give an examples of WSL workarounds required? I thought it'd be largely POSIX compliant, which is a reasonable target IMO
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Except, of course, that it's not even a fork of BSD, nor even of FreeBSD. :)
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