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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by masklinn on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:09PM (#15492661)
> if anything it's more comfortable than OSX since you get up-to-date GNU versions rather than older GNU tools.

1. By and large, OSX ships the BSD userland not GNU

2. You can trivially add up-to-date GNU tools to OSX: install homebrew, install whichever GNU stuff you want

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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by damnyou on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:35PM (#15493493)
I have better things to do with my life than prefix every command with a g.
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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by skinnymuch on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:33PM (#15496700)
You don't have to. Many of the commands that you install have simple work arounds so you can use the same command.
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Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 by lmm on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:58PM (#15495664)
Yes, sorry, "Older BSD tools" is what I meant to type.
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