Letters by Burk

Letters by Burk

Apple Is Copying Linux

Terminal. Homebrew. ARM chips. Privacy as a default. It was all Linux first.

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Burk
Mar 11, 2026
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My Medium friends can read this story over there as well.

Photo by Xavier Cee on Unsplash

Before Macs felt like serious developer machines (like they do now, in my eyes), Unix and Linux communities had already been doing that extremely well.

What Apple did was take a set of ideas that had matured in open-source ecosystems, refine the experience, and ship i…

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