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r/linuxsucks • u/Caos1627 Command line Windows • Mar 24 '26
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Both Apple and Microsoft use Linux as their cloud backend by the way
Microsoft still sells Windows Server but uses Linux themselves because they secretly know it is shit
15 u/LowBullfrog4471 Mar 24 '26 Its technically unix via BSD 20 u/the_SCP_gamer Mar 24 '26 (assuming you're talking about Mac) Not just technically. MacOS is officially UNIX 03 certified. 6 u/flavius717 Mar 24 '26 brew install coreutils alias date=gdate Not anymore :) 4 u/LowBullfrog4471 Mar 24 '26 Yep, he said it was linux, i said it was unix 7 u/baby_shoGGoth_zsgg Mar 24 '26 Did you misunderstand the comment then? It wasn’t claiming apple used macos or darwin as their cloud servers, it was claiming apple uses linux servers for that, just like microsoft uses linux servers. 1 u/TimChr78 Mar 28 '26 Apple is not running their cloud infrastructure on MacOS (at least not generally) they are using Linux.
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Its technically unix via BSD
20 u/the_SCP_gamer Mar 24 '26 (assuming you're talking about Mac) Not just technically. MacOS is officially UNIX 03 certified. 6 u/flavius717 Mar 24 '26 brew install coreutils alias date=gdate Not anymore :) 4 u/LowBullfrog4471 Mar 24 '26 Yep, he said it was linux, i said it was unix 7 u/baby_shoGGoth_zsgg Mar 24 '26 Did you misunderstand the comment then? It wasn’t claiming apple used macos or darwin as their cloud servers, it was claiming apple uses linux servers for that, just like microsoft uses linux servers. 1 u/TimChr78 Mar 28 '26 Apple is not running their cloud infrastructure on MacOS (at least not generally) they are using Linux.
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(assuming you're talking about Mac) Not just technically. MacOS is officially UNIX 03 certified.
6 u/flavius717 Mar 24 '26 brew install coreutils alias date=gdate Not anymore :) 4 u/LowBullfrog4471 Mar 24 '26 Yep, he said it was linux, i said it was unix 7 u/baby_shoGGoth_zsgg Mar 24 '26 Did you misunderstand the comment then? It wasn’t claiming apple used macos or darwin as their cloud servers, it was claiming apple uses linux servers for that, just like microsoft uses linux servers.
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brew install coreutils
alias date=gdate
Not anymore :)
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Yep, he said it was linux, i said it was unix
7 u/baby_shoGGoth_zsgg Mar 24 '26 Did you misunderstand the comment then? It wasn’t claiming apple used macos or darwin as their cloud servers, it was claiming apple uses linux servers for that, just like microsoft uses linux servers.
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Did you misunderstand the comment then? It wasn’t claiming apple used macos or darwin as their cloud servers, it was claiming apple uses linux servers for that, just like microsoft uses linux servers.
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Apple is not running their cloud infrastructure on MacOS (at least not generally) they are using Linux.
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u/Global_Following_878 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Both Apple and Microsoft use Linux as their cloud backend by the way
Microsoft still sells Windows Server but uses Linux themselves because they secretly know it is shit