Is it my imagination, or is AEM directed 98% to PC users, 1.8% to ubuntu users, and only 0.2% to Mac users?

[dennis_werner]

Is it my imagination, or is AEM directed 95% to PC users, 4.8% to ubuntu users, and only 0.2% to Mac users?  [I installed 6.1 on my Mac.]

There doesn't seem to have been any effort expended on following the standard mac installation process.  [Yes, what's there works, but it's just so "odd."  e.g. To start the quickstart web process (after installation), you double click on the jar file?  Who does that?]

Also, the start, stop, status, etc scripts don't run on native Mac terminal.  Some permissions need to be tweaked manually.  The unix scripts are missing the .sh extensions, etc.

Just my 2 cents...

[Opkar_Gill]

Hi Dennis,

As a current Mac user, who comes from a windows, linux, unix background, I don't have an issue 🙂 When developing I usually start it via the "start" script after I have added the runmode and set the correct HEAP allocation. Then tail the log file.

As someone who has previously installed Documentum, Oracle, Weblogic, it's a piece of cake compared to those. It doesn't have all the niceties you pointed out, but it's simple to install and setup, I'd take that anyday.  It's a server application, not a desktop app.

All of the above is IMHO 🙂

Regards,

Opkar

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Also - when OS is important - the AEM docs do address it. For example - see this section of the AEM Install docs:

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/getting_started/download_and_startworking.html

However - if you see something like C:\ as an example (in an article) and you are a MAC user - we assume you know how to convert that as a MAC or LINUX user.