Why people use Linux in place of *nix ?
Even worst, most of the tools (cat, grep, awk) are Unix commands, redeveloped by the GNU project in most of the GNULinux distros.
Even worst, most of the tools (cat, grep, awk) are Unix commands, redeveloped by the GNU project in most of the GNULinux distros.
I find it more irritating when people try to score greybeard points by saying *nix (or Unix) when it's obvious that they're talking about a Linux-only mechanism and quite possibly haven't ever used Unix (or a direct derivative).
Also, the most popular Unix-like OS (far more than Linux) is macOS, basically the least “leet greybeard affectation” thing I can imagine. Your irritation is way off base.
Perhaps nothing? I was responding to the complaint in general terms.
> Your irritation is way off base.
Please allow me to feel irritated when people refer to obvious Linux things as something that's supposedly got something to do with Unix. It happens often enough.
I had thought that you were directly responding to the original poster.
Most popular Unix-like OS on MacBooks is MacOS.
To bring us back to the context of this post: I am quite willing to bet that “grep” and “cat” are used by humans more times per day on macOS than on any other OS.
Oh well, I guess a lot of people just think all Unix-like systems are called “Linux” now. Perhaps it’s become like the word “Kleenex”.