People at the time minix started thought microkernels were going to be the next big thing. And monolithic kernels were outdated.
Unix was an academic project and moving to a microkernel architecture made sense for that project. In the end you could argue microkernels won because NT and Darwin both use a microkernel inspired arch with some tweaks to be more flexible.
Yes it is. QNX is still around, and still made by Blackberry.
Linus isn't a 'normie'. He's subnormal. He's a retarded nigger who should be ritually slaughtered for the good of the species.
Took me a moment to realise you meant Sebastian, not Torvalds. Had me wondering if you'd gone completely round the twist.
But they don't. MacOS doesn't utilize any GNU software nowadays as far as I know and it never utilized the gnu coreutils. They did ship gcc and the autotools back in the day but they replaced that with clang almost 20 years ago.
Not Linux, but I'm currently using Win 10 LTSC as my daily driver. No issues so far. Easy to get (archive.org has it) and easy to crack (simply run a .bat from github). Only real problem I had was no image viewer by default, which I fixed by installing infraview, but somewhere along the way the stock win 10 one appeared, so that's nice.
Ironically Fedora, it's basically in the middle of Mint and Arch both in stability (Mint is super stable, Arch requires more maintenance) and "difficulty" (Mint can be used as is out of the box, Arch requires you to choose what software you want to run on your own). Fedora is semi-rolling and requires some post-install setup, but it's updated frequently (sometimes they push new technologies when they're not completely ready but you can avoid those) and has a lot of developers looking at it so things tend to work as intended.
About four years ago I switched from Windows to Pop_OS and haven't looked back. Been gaming in it with no issues. I do have AMD/ATI chips but they have an nVidia version you can install. I was a complete Linux noob when I installed it and have been daily driving Pop since.
That's my bad for assuming they would be using the Gnu utils if they were using bash.
Linux distributions are not technically interchangeable, but as long as the distribution is popular troubleshooting and learning are easy. You could go on distrowatch and randomly choose one of the popular distributions and do well, I recommend MX Linux because it's a popular distribution that is lightweight by default, but even Arch and Fedora are good choices even though they will break more often than the Debian based distributions.
They don't even use bash anymore. MacOS switched to zsh by default sometime around 2019 with Catalina. I think you can still run bash but you'll get a warning since it's deprecated in favor of zsh running in bash-compatibility mode.
And the worst part is, they replaced GNU Chess.
My understanding is that bash had a license change (to GPLv3) starting with 4.0, which apparently is unacceptable to Apple and how it packages software. So they either had to switch shells or stay on a version of bash that's way out of date. The latter isn't a workable option, as the computing world continues to change as years and decades pass. zsh has a free license and a bash compatibility mode, so that's what they went with.
Seconding MX Linux. Extremely user friendly, extremely intuitive, has tons of graphical interfaces to help you install new stuff and manage your computer, and still does all that while having all of Debian's packages. Flatpak is the easiest way to get anything that's missing, which can also be accessed through the gui MX Package Installer. It is essentially just better Mint. If you're willing to get your hands a little dirtier, you can try something like Artix or another "build your own" distro. Just read the friendly manual and you'll be good to go.
Oh yeah that's a red flag. You can expect at any moment they kick out their biggest maintainers just because he said something off color.
Of course Linux Mint is officially partnered with the "Global Crew of Activists" Mozilla, so if these sorts of associations bother you then Mint is not the choice for you.
