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by msoad 4545 days ago
No I'm really questioning this. I have both OSX and Ubuntu machines. For command line tools they are equal. Absolutely everything that works on Ubuntu (CLI app) works on OSX too. So what's the Linux advantage when you already paid for OSX?!
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true_religion 4545 days ago
Package management is harder with OSX. With Linux, I can install everything from the commandline with an OS supported utility (e.g. yum).

With OSX, I'm left with 3rd party installers like brew which never really line up the dependencies completely.

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Nerdfest 4545 days ago
Package management, kernel modifications, the ability to know whether or not your machine is back-doored, among other things. The ability to run an OS that will actually run on other hardware. The fact that it's open source also has a lot of indirect value to many of us as well.
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thirsteh 4545 days ago
I was with you until you implied Linux can't be back-doored. There's nothing about Linux that makes it immune to rootkits or backdoors despite what the hype would have you believe. Remember, Apple used to say the same thing about Macs, but you don't hear a lot of that rhetoric nowadays.
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