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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by bubblethink on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:07AM (#23598453)
True, but then the web-fronted dev stuff is several layers away from the ISA, isn't it ? As for the unix-like experience, from reading other people's accounts, it seemed like that was not really Apple's priority. So there are ancient versions of utilities due to GPL aversion and stuff. I suppose docker, xcode and things like that make it a bit better, but my general point was that didn't seem like Apple's main market.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by cat199 on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:55PM (#23605541)
> So there are ancient versions of utilities due to GPL aversion and stuff.

They're not ancient, but are mostly ports of recent FreeBSD (or occasionally some other BSD) utilities. Some of these have a lineage dating back to AT&T/BSD Unix, but are still the (roughly) current versions of those tools found on those platforms, perhaps with some apple-specific tweaks.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by Siira on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:31AM (#23601293)
It works great though, thanks to Homebrew. I have had very few problems treating my macOS as a Linux machine.
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