Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]>
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"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> writes: > On 2026-06-25 08:27, Your Name wrote: >> Those are two separate statements with no connection. :-\ >> Besides which, those companies do sell software for MacOS, which >> technically / legally is Unix. > > Unix with a big layer on top that is not Unix. > > Is the graphic layer Unix? What would make a GUI API be ‘Unix’? I think all the popular GUI APIs are cross-platform, at least to an extent. > Do those companies that sell software for macOS expect that particular > graphical layer, or do they run directly on the Unix beneath? Generally both. User interaction via the GUI, network and file IO etc via the Unix syscall API (mediated via application frameworks, language runtimes, etc). It’s not conceptually different to GUI applications on Linux and Windows. -- https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/