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by blasdel 5894 days ago
A good metric for measuring shell script infestation of the boot process is the PID number of the first process you can start after the system is fully booted up. Boot up, log in, open a terminal, and type echo $$. Try that on your Linux system, and then compare the result with MacOS! (Hint, it's something like this: Linux PID 1823; MacOS PID 154, measured on test systems we own.)