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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by dunpeal on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:47PM (#18257997)
Your typical Linux stack is far more configurable and customizable than the Mac stack.

You typically have far more configuration levers, as well as deeper customization access. The stack is built entirely from open, accessible source, so you can ultimately customize every single part of it to your exact liking.

For example, KDE has an order of magnitude more levers than the OS X DE.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by jki275 on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:01PM (#18258116)
You realize OSX is BSD, right? Just because they didn't build you a configuration button for everything doesn't mean it's not configurable.
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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by dunpeal on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:57PM (#18260688)
Uhm, no. Somewhere at the core it's BSD, but can I patch and recompile the DE?

Not only is most of OS X closed source, it's also not particularly configurable.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by jki275 on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:23AM (#18275363)
What, specifically, are you trying to configure that you can't?

It really is BSD, although the window manager isn't open source a lot of the rest is.

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