The real reason macOS often feels more coherent than other Unix derivatives lies in its NeXTSTEP heritage. While most Linux distributions and BSDs are fundamentally compositional (ie. assembling a kernel, userspace, init system, desktop environment, and numerous independent projects) macOS was built as a more deliberately designed system.

It shows up in several consistent mechanisms. Property lists (plists) serve as the primary format for preferences, application metadata, and service configuration across the platform. Launchd provides a unified, declarative approach to managing background processes. The long evolution of Cocoa and its successors established strong conventions for how applications should behave and integrate with the system. The result is lower cognitive load: fewer competing configuration styles and less need to learn the quirks of dozens of separate components.

This coherence comes from deliberate trade-offs. Apple has consistently prioritized opinionated design and predictability over maximum flexibility. Power users sometimes feel constrained by the guardrails, and the system has grown more locked down over time. Linux desktops have improved considerably with better tooling and declarative approaches, narrowing the gap in some areas.

Even so, the difference in day-to-day consistency remains noticeable for many who move between the platforms. The NeXT influence didn’t just deliver a kernel, it embedded a philosophy that an operating system should feel like a unified product rather than a collection of parts.

Linux could do this under, but under the leadership of one person. Unfortunately he's not interested from what I can see.

It's a language model. The phrase "do not delete all my emails" does not appear very different from "do delete all my emails" syntactically. So what comes next is probability, not understanding.

Hopefully this will help put an end to 2FA over SMS once and for all!

It's only every about the new phone. They are not a trillion dollar company without a reason. Anyone remember Siri? It quite happily ran on a jailbroken iPhone 4 though they said it couldn't.

Dude, go back and watch Imitation Game again. They were willing to send their family members off to die to protect THE secret.

We need more assets. And if you can not make good cheese, then you have something you can take to the bank. It's pathetic!

And then goes on "Fox News" to discuss his maximum truth-seeking product with Tucker! The irony!

In my experience women just don't want to be there. They're not interested!

Am I compensated for my time when I arrive at the mandatory test and my car is shown to not be a problem?

BUT you're saying a big "fuck you" to the (tens of) millions of people that will eventually use Starlink because there is no viable alternative means to access the internet where they live. Who gets the highest priority? Seem you've decided for us.

Chess.com has the ability to analyse game play. The statistic most telling for me is the accuracy of play. My son has been playing for the past 5 years and we have seen his accuracy increase slowly during this time. He also wins state and national competitions over the board. Yet he is playing and being beaten by kids that we have never heard of who are racking up 97% accuracy. And when you bring it up with tournament directors they have no recourse - they're not prepared to sacrifice the entrance fees for future tournaments for the integrity of the tournament. Suffice to say we can't wait to go back to OTB where these kids will never be seen again.

A pure monitor and multiple streaming boxes. A master media player, and all other media player/cable boxes able to operate as a slave to the master. Any box can assume the role of master, but the master controls which channels I watch, not the the slaves. I want one remote control that lets me flick between all the channels and adjust the volume on the audio system, also a slave. And I can have many of them connected also. If there is one thing I can't stand about the entertainment systems of today is the need to have 4 (my brother has 7) bloody remote controls. And having to set the TV to one input and watch a channel over there. Then switch to another channel on another entertainment device. Oh, and I want to be able to listen to a "CD" off an MP3 player while I watch the football on the monitor.

They wouldn't chaff their asses on that letter while they currently enjoy the softness and strength of the constitution.

How about change cellular networks to be about data, and voice just one app that runs on our smart devices. The app (lets call it VoIP) then chooses the best network to make the voice connection - the wireless network provided by the telco or the wireless network provided by my wireless modem router connected to ADSL (or NBN in Australia's case - yeah right).

and therefore what a perfect opportunity to exercise their power. Boggles the mind what the jury are thinking.