@[email protected] to [email protected] • 11 months agoWhat are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can?message-square481fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down120
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•11 months agoOn phones Android is pretty typical, and on desktop Unix is also pretty typical because MacOS is it. But non-Mac Unix on the desktop is pretty unusual, and stuff built for Mac specifically often won’t work on other Unixes.
minus-squareCashewNut 🏴link1•11 months agoMaybe POSIX-compliance is a better metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
On phones Android is pretty typical, and on desktop Unix is also pretty typical because MacOS is it. But non-Mac Unix on the desktop is pretty unusual, and stuff built for Mac specifically often won’t work on other Unixes.
Maybe POSIX-compliance is a better metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX