Now, if only macOS still had the ability to drop to a Darwin shell without a GUI at all… we could just have a nice UNIX with something like KDE or COSMIC, brew as our package manager… what a dream.

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MarsIronPI 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But why MacOS then? If you take away the interface what differentiates Darwin from FreeBSD or GNU?

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BirAdam 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That it will actually run on Apple Silicon.

TBH, I would love to install GNU or BSD on my M4 Max Mac Studio. What I really wanted is a modern UNIX workstation. My Studio’s price/performance was the best available, so that’s what I bought. Now, I am happy with that purchase except for the constant diminution in software quality from Apple.

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esseph 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If I could buy modern apple hardware and run the Linux of my choice, I probably would. I have 0 interest in the apple ecosystem.

	▲	MarsIronPI 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wish I could get an Apple SoC in a 2013 Thinkpad chassis.

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komali2 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Performance on apple chipsets!

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gf000 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, why stick to the inferior kernel used by macs with a worse package manager? Like something like nix is just superior in every sense.

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krackers 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On intel macs there used to be single user mode, but even then I don't think you ever had control over the framebuffer.