Comment by zem

something i'm curious about - for linux fans who have made the switch, is osx an "acceptable unix"? people keep trumpeting the fact that it combines the best of both worlds, a seamless gui experience atop a full-fledged posix core complete with a bash prompt you can drop down to as easily as you can in linux, but philosophically it seems that for the little things like package management, command line utilities, etc., the experience is closer to cygwin than it is to linux proper - you can do it, sure, but it will involve falling back to a third-party ecosystem.