I guess we have different definitions of what "best" means.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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Ok, madthumbs. Sure.
I did a wtf at dude 4 in frame 3 until I realized he was getting punched and not... well.. if you don't see it maybe I'm just net-warped.
Thought he was giving the zucc as well
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I mean, when we're talking about UNIX, yeah MacOS is probably one of the best...
Linux ain't UNIX though...
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Bravo, OP, bravo.
Closed Source is demonstrably less secure,
Huge numbers of people are constantly testing and reworking open source security.
Once closed source has a bad encryption found or accepts certain strings for SQL Queries, it becomes a feeding frenzy, and the people who set it up never put any counter measures in place because a small team never had any chance of approaching the vast well of human knowledge on security.
Just look at the news: US Government Facility Hacked, Credit Company Hacked, Industrial Plant Hacked, Proprietary Vehicle Hacked, etc.
That's the joke.
But the joke stands on the premise that people would argue over it. We're all in agreeance that closed source is not more secure.
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Joke's on you: GNU/Linux isn't Unix to begin with (that's literally what GNU means: "GNU's Not Unix")!
Therefore, MacOS is "the best Unix" only because it managed to squeeze by the BSDs and some dead proprietary Unixes ("Unices?" "Unixen?") -- hardly an impressive feat.
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Is there some twisted definition by which you can argue Windows is UNIX? Just to intensify the violence.
Back in the 90s, Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer that you could enable (it wasn't enabled by default).
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Secure from whom? Sure to be more government backdoors in MacOS.
But everyone knows that Mint is the best Unix. (Secret giggle behind my hand.)
I first resurrected a dead PC with RedHat before the turn of the century, mind, and that thing had UPTIME.
I still have me a massive soft spot for Solaris back in the day, though.
I did the same, in the late 90s, and that computer got h4xx3d in two weeks through a vulnerability in Apache.
That was a really good learning experience.
I ran Apache on a box at work, but it was configured by our insanely intelligent sysadmin. Nothing got past her. Never met a sysadmin as brilliant as her. I don't know how they managed to hire and retain her, but she was given a lot of freedom to run things how she liked - she even had a custom firewall between us and head office!
I also had an insanely cheery yellow iMac G3 at the same time - if it made it through the first ten minutes without crashing it would make it through the day. Somehow its stability and resilience improved over time. Not so my windows PC. If you left that on too long, memleak.dll and slowdown.dll would take over and everything would get shakier and shakier. I never quite got used to only having one button though on the mac.