Unix vs Mac Mentality

There are many schools of systems engineering philosophy, but one dichotomy that appears to me more commonly than others. I think of it as a Unix vs Mac/Windows philosophy. I’m writing down my thoughts on that here. Just a disclosure at the start: Sure Mac is Unix now, but in the same way that Android is Linux - the philosophies that pervade the builders and users of the commonly recognized forms of the latter are significantly different than those of the former.…