Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

John Bokma <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25/06/2026 03:14, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

How?

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