Linux is often listed as parallel to OSes like macOS. But afaik Mac is also based off of Unix, so can I say Mac is a distro of unix? And then Mac would become parallel to linux distros like ubuntu and debian? Is a distro an OS of their own?
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Think of Linux like Ice Cream. There’s lots of different flavors of Ice Cream, but despite looking and tasting different they all have stuff in common.
Linux is like that, all the different Distros are unique in their own way, are maintained by different people, but they all have a number of things in common.
So it’s both fair to say they are all flavors of the same OS, but they are all different at the same time. It’s all about how you look at it.
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