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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by fastball on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:33PM (#25463145)
That might make you unique haha.
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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by baldfat on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:40PM (#25463547)
How does VM Mac on a Mac as a developer make one unique?
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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by fastball on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:09AM (#25464097)
Buying a mac, installing linux as your daily driver, and then running macOS in a VM?

I honestly don't even know why you'd do that. I certainly have never heard of anyone doing that until now.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by thekyle on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:38AM (#25464477)
I think it's more common to virtualize macOS on a Mac running macOS.
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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by fastball on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:42AM (#25468105)
Sure, but that is not the setup I interpreted from his comment, as I'm unsure why you would mention linux if the point of the comment was about virtualizing macOS on macOS.
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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by thekyle on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:45PM (#25501159)
Yes, I understand. But if you can't install macOS in VM on Linux (on a Mac) then you most likely can't do it in a VM on macOS either.
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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by craftinator on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:50AM (#25464512)
Likely because he wants more than a sliver of control over his OS.
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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by fastball on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:13PM (#25471344)
Why?
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