12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
8:18 a.m.
The point was that your assertion that [OS X is] a
'friendly' OS is
really only skin deep.
That's the layer at which "friendly" (of an OS) is usually meant.
Actually it's a awkward bastardisation of BSD UNIX
with a friendly
*GUI*.
Well...more like Mach with a BSD emulation layer slapped on (and then
Aqua stuck on on top of that). The degree to which it looks like Unix
corresponds roughly inversely to the depth to which you probe it. It's
Unix to a casual "type a few basic commands" inspection, but the deeper
you scratch beneath the surface, as either admin or programmer, the
less Unixy it looks.
And, yes, Aqua is very novice-friendly (which is what most people who
use "friendly" of OSes without qualification seem to mean;
`user-friendly' is a pretty meaningless term without some indication of
what sort of user is under consideration). But that's part of the OS,
and the part most of their users interact with almost(?) all of the
time, so I don't think it's wrong to consider that relevant here.
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