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Originally Posted by Alan A
macos is linux under the covers.
it's just ringfenced to stop most seat to keyboard interface problems - meaning you can't screw it up so bad it won't boot unless you are really trying.
unlike debian - where i needed a windows computer and IE to tell me how to fix the gpu drivers after every "update"...
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No it isn't. It is a BSD kernel (microkernel vs. monolithing but still under a Free license). On top of that, it doesn't adhere to the "all of the users files shall be in their home directory" concept, especially for configuration/preferences files for like your Firefox profile, etc... In fact, it seems to take pleasure in mixing *nix and Windows design into how it works and does things....
And kernel upgrades works fine in Linux if you would use Free drivers instead of something with a proprietary binary blob (NVidia cards...)