Re:Ask HN: How important is Posix?
by bayareaguy on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:43PM
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I think it only matters for developers who work with mainstream open source.
That's me most of the time and my switch from a dual-boot windows/linux configuration to an OSX laptop several years ago has saved me many hours (although I still have to work around odd OSX weirdness here or there but that is pretty easy to work out). I'm not likely to do Windows-only stuff anytime soon so I don't expect I'll be paying Microsoft anything until their POSIX support is superior to what OSX offers.
However if you're not a developer or if you and your customers mainly work with Microsoft-only proprietary stuff then POSIX won't really matter.
That's me most of the time and my switch from a dual-boot windows/linux configuration to an OSX laptop several years ago has saved me many hours (although I still have to work around odd OSX weirdness here or there but that is pretty easy to work out). I'm not likely to do Windows-only stuff anytime soon so I don't expect I'll be paying Microsoft anything until their POSIX support is superior to what OSX offers.
However if you're not a developer or if you and your customers mainly work with Microsoft-only proprietary stuff then POSIX won't really matter.