Going from a GNU system to a non-GNU system

What do I need to know? What habits do I have to break?

break the habit of being a freedom luving faggot

Are you talking about a SUS system like Solaris or OS X, or something completely different like OpenVMS?

>>3
Yes.

>>4
4chan is an 18+ website.

>>5
Thank you.

You have to break the habit of expecting your system's core software to be reliable, free, extensible, and maintained.

>>7
GNU reliable? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Expect more shell tools to do exactly what you tell them to, rather than what you mean. For example, rm may not save you if you try to glob something beginning with a dot.

Pretty much all of the common tools will have fewer options. If one of the GNU tools provides something that's only available as a long option, you can almost guarantee it will be gone. This is especially painful where shell builtins like set or shopt are concerned. Korn et al. have their own idioms for dealing with old Bourne shell annoyances.

>>9
For example, rm may not save you if you try to glob something beginning with a dot.
But that's standard behavior. The standard wildcards aren't supposed to match files beginning with a .

Non-GNU systems tend to be more consistent, more reliable, and generally better-designed.
You will be expected to read the manual, and non-GNU man pages are actually useful, rather than just annoying advertisements for that GNU info shit. Expect to be publicly ridiculed if you ask questions that are already answered in the manual.

>>11
You know, I never really use it because it's a pain, but I love how OpenBSD is so tightly organized and actually has useful manpages compared to GNU.

Hell, the POSIX Programmer's Manual (or whatever it's called) is more useful and clearly written than the GNU manpages. Every GNU manpage is super long and has lots of ``conditions'' (``This option does this unless...'') because of all the extensions they've added,

GNU seriously needs some reform, at least in the documentation department. The code is scary to look at, so I just assume someone knows what they're doing there.

>>12
U MENA GNU INFOPAGES
kill me now