Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:50:40 -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 17:35:22 +1200, Your Name wrote:

> On 2026-06-24 01:24:17 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:
>>
>> Yeah, Linux is a proper Unix-type system, unlike that whatever it
>> is that Apple runs on its machines.
>
> Technically, you've got that almost-backwards.

While on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:35:05 +1200, Your Name also wrote:

> None of the standard software runs on it for a start - no Adobe, no
> Microsoft, etc. ...

Interesting how you can claim, on the one hand, that Linux is not a
proper Unix-type system, yet the only examples you can offer of
software that won’t run on it is from companies that are not known for
producing Unix-type software ...