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Always has been
Windows is an enterprise OS with consumer features and macOS is a consumer OS with enterprise features.
What about Linux then? A 1337 OS with some noob features sprinkled in for color? Or maybe a server OS with desktop features stapled on the front?
Linux is an everything OS with whatever features you want/need. Do you need a hardened enterprise server? Linux got you. Do you need a user friendly OS for even non-technical people? Linux got you. Do you need something that can do a little of everything? Believe it or not, Linux got you.
Straight to jail.
You underclock your laptop? Linux got you.
You overclock your gaming rig? Believe it or not, Linux got you.
Underclock, overclock.
That is a very accurate description of Linux considering even X11 and Wayland are display servers. Pipewire and Pulseaudio are also servers.
Don't misunderstand what a server means, however. Just because something is called a server doesn't mean it's not made for the desktop. It's a technical term that doesn't necessarily relate to networking, it might just relate to stuff like inter-process communication.
However, Wayland is designed for the desktop environment. It's like the main reason why it replaces X11, which was designed for terminals.
My comment was mostly meant as a joke. I'm aware most of them use their networking capabilities for IPC and being able to use them remotely is just a cool feature resulting from that (except X11).
I know this is a joke comment but Linux is for sure an enterprise kernel first and foremost. It did not start that way but that is how it has been developed and managed for many years now. Maybe the most incorrect thing anybody has ever said on record in the computer industry is when Linus said Linux was “not going to be anything big and professional”.
Linux distributions, which are conceived and managed totally independently from the kernel are available for every niche. Many of them are desktop and “consumer” oriented. With many Linux distributions, I would say that it is more accurate that they are hobbiest oriented more than what Microsoft would mean be “consumer”.
MaCOS is an ugly OS with anti-consumer features. Sure, it's slightly more open than iOS, but you don't have to move your .exe or .tar.gz files to a trusted folder to install them.
Anti-consumer "features" yes, but I wouldn't call it ugly, I'd consider it rather pretty and polished...on the surface level anyways. Once you need to do anything even approaching "power user" or enterprise, however, the illusion shatters and then it's ugly
I have only used it a few times, on other people's machines, and I guess it's just a matter of preference, but I felt the user interface was too 'polished', it took forever to do stuff as everything has its own long transition, and the transparency makes it hard to see stuff, and there is like no padding, making it easier to misclick.
Nope, just gotta run basically everything as administrator to the point most folks don't even think about it anymore.
And I’m a man with boy-like intellect, just in case anyone was wondering.