[TUHS] Favorite unix design principles?

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Jan 31 08:31:09 AEST 2021


On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:45:38PM +0200, Tyler Adams wrote:
> Fair points about macOS, I hated using my mac in 2018 (thankfully I've
> lived in linux bliss since), but I wouldn't say macOS is representative of
> the software industry as a whole. Especially as you said iOS is Apple's
> real cash cow and apple's been focusing on better *mac hardware *and from
> what I hear that M1 delivers*.*

M1 is a stunning pile of systems work.  Warms my heart.  Seems to be
faster, uses less power, and cheaper than Intel's best.  Kudos to Apple
for that.

> The modern software industry is mostly over the browser (or an app), and
> honestly almost every site I use these days is pretty fast and stable.
> Unless it has too many ads.

Ad blocker to the rescue, I use ublock origin and it works great.

--lm


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