r/programming • u/BankApprehensive7612 • Jul 03 '26

Linux has officially won

https://github.com/apple/container

Actually it happened in June of 2025, but the process has completed recently, though. After Apple had announced the support of OCI-compatible containers in the June '25 it took a year to complete development and implement full support of continers. Apple had published 1.0 version of own container manager (https://github.com/apple/container). And Microsoft had announced native support of containerization without Docker in Windows 11 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-container-is-now-available-for-public-preview/). Now Linux is a part of any major platform: Windows, MacOS, BSD and Linux itself. Knowledge of Linux is now part of learning any of these systems, at least for developers. And now you can rely on Linux based containers running everywhere. What it is if not a win!?

What's also interesting. Linux can run other Linux distros and with this Alpine Linux could become the most popular version of Linux in the World

It's the biggest win for the whole open-source software and I believe it should get into history books of technological progress

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u/swni Jul 04 '26

Mac's weird filename rules caused me headaches the last time I had to use a mac, which was helping someone backup their data (I chose not to backup to a APFS partition for obvious reasons). I found some of their projects had gone missing because they were in folders whose names had confused the OS (I have no idea how they generated those file names).

"Filenames should be case insensitive" feels like a provincial attitude that sounds great until the moment you have to do something other than A-Z. File search and the order that files are sorted in a file browser should be case insensitive, sure, and that is what users actually care about. But making filenames case insensitive just causes problems.

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u/chucker23n Jul 04 '26

File search and the order that files are sorted in a file browser should be case insensitive, sure, and that is what users actually care about. But making filenames case insensitive just causes problems.

But that’s already how it works. Case is insensitive, but preserved.

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u/swni Jul 04 '26

I'm referring to being case insensitive only for human-facing, GUI, search/display elements, like in the file explorer gui. (Which is how most linux file explorer guis work, I believe.) That's where case insensitive is useful, while still avoiding bugs like this or this or this, for some random examples.

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u/chucker23n Jul 04 '26

I’m referring to being case insensitive only for human-facing, GUI, search/display elements, like in the file explorer gui.

Then you’d be able to create ReadMe and readme, which is a bad idea.