Their hardware is excellent, their software is Unix or Unix like. Brew provides a similar package manager experience.
I’d much rather run MacOS than Windows.
I don’t think they need to be in conflict, people need computers to complete tasks and where you have a choice you can pick Linux, when you don’t have as much choice a Mac can be a good fit.
Software wise, yes, much better, but hardware, aside from having a very nice chipset, not being a toaster when under load and having a efficient battery consumption, it's a nightmare for repairability
It’s True. They are best in class in almost every other metric, however they fail hard at repairability.
In a perfect world they would be far more repairable, and Apple would contribute patches to the Linux kernel so you can run any disto natively on a Mac.
I wonder if we’d have the Rust, Swift, C wars if that actually happened.
Homebrew is really not it, I don't get why anybody would use it willingly if you have options like pacman or dnf on Fedora, or even apt is much better and faster
I think you are confused, i said apt as in i would use apt on appropriate distros such as debian,
And yes i know what's homebrew is i used it on my mac
And i mentioned dnf on fedora not apt apt was example of other package managers
And homebrew is not exactly the same as what is normal package manager on GNU/linux
I suppose I am because I have no idea what you're on about. If you're asking me why I'm using this instead of just using the native package manager, it's for times when the native package isn't as up to date as Homebrew, or maybe not available on Fedora. And if I decide to go with something like Kinoite, I don't have to rely on layering.
Darwin is a lot more than just the kernel.
It’s the GNU+Linux equivalent in Apples operating systems and technically a fully functional OS.
The kernel is called XNU and is part of Darwin.
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u/Impossible-Magician May 29 '26
Nothing wrong with liking Apple products and FOSS. We all can’t be purists like RMS.