The best Unix

Security by obscurity is not real.

Lol, Linux literally owns the server space, windows owns the desktop space, what exactly does MacOS Own exactly? If best means most pretentious then sure.

Obscurity is not security. Obscurity is the fake sensation of privacy, you are on the hands of the creator.

Joke's on you: GNU/Linux isn't Unix to begin with (that's literally what GNU means: "GNU's Not Unix")!

Therefore, MacOS is "the best Unix" only because it managed to squeeze by the BSDs and some dead proprietary Unixes ("Unices?" "Unixen?") -- hardly an impressive feat.

Now this is the kind of trolling I sincerely advocate.

Closed source is more secure because the viruses can't see where to get in.

Any judgment of “best” needs to specify “for what use case?”

I’m a MacOS daily driver, and I think it is the best for most of the use cases that matter to me.

But not all of them. And my use cases could easily change a little bit and make MacOS a miserable choice to stick with.

Everything is a trade-off.

Edit: And as for closed source security, I hope nobody seriously makes that argument anymore, do they?

I did a wtf at dude 4 in frame 3 until I realized he was getting punched and not... well.. if you don't see it maybe I'm just net-warped.

I'm late and this will get buried, but this really speaks to the difference between the open source / ESR / OSI ideology and the free software / RMS / GNU ideology.

Open source ideology says it is better because it produces better software. If MacOS X was closed source and better it serves as a repudiation of that ideology.

Free software ideology says it is better because denying users any of the four freedoms is an immoral act. If MacOS X was proprietary software and better, it would still be immoral to deny users their freedoms; the ideology is not impacted.

Someone make a virus for his mac

*flames, screaming, sound of glass breaking*

God I love the smell of Usenet in the morning

Former macaddict here

I disagree but this is a funny meme

But everyone knows that Mint is the best Unix. (Secret giggle behind my hand.)

I first resurrected a dead PC with RedHat before the turn of the century, mind, and that thing had UPTIME.

I still have me a massive soft spot for Solaris back in the day, though.

Thank you, you made a buncha nerds angry and now they're fighting in the comment section >:(

Lol this comment section is on fire. Irony died in 2015.

Just how do we define our metric for best Unix? Cuz it certainly isn't freedom if Apples winning any awards.

Is there some twisted definition by which you can argue Windows is UNIX? Just to intensify the violence.

I guess we have different definitions of what "best" means.

Based.

So ... the Darwin kernel is insecure? 🧐

Secure from whom? Sure to be more government backdoors in MacOS.

Is macOS more secure than OpenBSD?

App sandbox, SIP, and the Secure Enclave are awesome, but I don’t know how macOS actually compares to the BSDs these days.

Burn the witch!

I know that date handling isn't necessarily indicative of the quality of the whole operating system but...

did you see 38c3? is there any doubt ios/osx is insecure, hackable and has plenty of rootkits avail? this facebook meme shouldnt trigger any tech savy nerd.

Security is temporary. Nothing is safe.

Bravo, OP, bravo.

What's a computer?

Closed Source is demonstrably less secure,

Huge numbers of people are constantly testing and reworking open source security.

Once closed source has a bad encryption found or accepts certain strings for SQL Queries, it becomes a feeding frenzy, and the people who set it up never put any counter measures in place because a small team never had any chance of approaching the vast well of human knowledge on security.

Just look at the news: US Government Facility Hacked, Credit Company Hacked, Industrial Plant Hacked, Proprietary Vehicle Hacked, etc.

I mean, when we're talking about UNIX, yeah MacOS is probably one of the best...

Linux ain't UNIX though...

SOLARIS 8 IS BEST UNIX

Account made two days go...

Ok, madthumbs. Sure.

Nah, it's the "best unix" because being one requires paying those SUS bastards.

It can also be said: security by obscurity is the best scenario for the NSA

I prefer Windows.

Unironically agree. I want to write my code, not your configs. The fact that saying it causes purists of every ilk to absolutely lose their fucking minds is a fringe benefit.