Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:14:48 -0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:15:58 +0200, John Bokma wrote:

> On 24/06/2026 03:24, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:42:03 +0100, scole wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still finding my feet with Linux - there's a few strange
>>> quirls to it that my Mac-shaped brain is struggling to cope with
>>> ...
>>
>> Yeah, Linux is a proper Unix-type system, unlike that whatever it
>> is that Apple runs on its machines.
>
> In what way?

One obvious one: a core part of the Unix tradition was separation of
the GUI from the OS kernel. Apple threw that one right out the window.