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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by mattbillenstein on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:36PM (#23471176)
It means you better think about buying a thinkpad.
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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by trthomps on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:47PM (#23471308)
I moved to an X1 2 years ago when I refused to get the new keyboard and my 2013 MBP was on the way out, very happy to have Linux as the native OS for dev work, but I don't love the added time I do have to spend maintaining my own OS now.

Also slack and zoom for linux suck :(

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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by john_alan on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:47PM (#23471300)
Docker runs on Arm chips.
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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by kjksf on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:00PM (#23471424)
Yes, but Docker on ARM won't run your x86 containers.

Docker can run a different OS but not a different arch.

The point of Docker is kind of having the exactly same thing here and there.

With Docker, I can compile, run, test and debug my backend service on Windows or Mac and deploy to Linux, knowing that I ran and tested the exact same binary.

If you deploy on x86 (as you do), having ARM Docker doesn't help you much.

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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by john_alan on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:08PM (#23471505)
Good point!
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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by gpderetta on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:52PM (#23471351)
but the image you want to run in it might not.
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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by znpy on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:38PM (#23471185)
why can't I upvote you twice?
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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by mattbillenstein on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:01PM (#23472396)
Most of my snark gets downvoted, so the one upvote is sufficient - thx!
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Re:Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month by znpy on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:09PM (#23483245)
indeed, my comment was downvoted four times. WORTH IT.
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