A lot of it was fair criticism at the time. Linux fixed some of what was wrong. Having a good sudo config mostly resolves the problem of having one superuser account, and big, multiuser systems are a lot less common now, anyway. X’s network transparency features aren’t that useful in modern computing contexts, either, though I have found a few over the years.

But mostly, it’s because the landscape changed from a hundred Unix vendors vs a bunch of other OSen, to now where it’s Windows vs Linux vs OSX. By that comparison, the two with Unix-derived history look well thought out.

(This also implies that NextStep was the one old Unix vendor that has survived in a meaningful way. I don’t think anyone would have guessed that 30 years ago.)

They also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.

Unix Haters Handbook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook

Didn’t knew this. It has 360 pages, wow!

EDIT:

The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?

hehe

Good thing GNU’s not Unix

Here we go

Unix does so many stupid things and we’re still stuck with some of them. Especially the terminal section still applies today.