[TUHS] "What UNIX Cost Us"

Tyler Adams coppero1237 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 20:46:00 AEST 2020


His example of the USB driver was pretty silly. The unix code even *looked*
cleaner and straightforward compared to the convoluted windows/mac messes,
but he's mad because he had to figure out a *filepath*. What!?


 Tyler


On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 12:37 PM Vincenzo Nicosia <katolaz at freaknet.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:27:39AM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> > FWIW, I found this talk to be quite amusing and interesting.
> >
> > "What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM
> >
>
> ...which is along the same lines of the talk the same guy gave about
> systemd and why everybody should like it. The message is simple: we
> just want to run our shiny MacBooks and we don't understand Unix
> anyway, so we'd better get rid of it and move on.
>
> A flawed analysis that obviously leads to flawed conclusions.
>
>
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