Re:Intel Problems
by Steltek on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:45PM
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"Linux" is more than coreutils. The Mac kernel is no where close to Linux in capability and Apple hates 3rd party drivers to boot. You'll end up running a half-baked Linux VM anyway so all macOS gets you is a SSH client with a nice desktop environment, which you can find anywhere really.
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> all macOS gets you is a SSH client with a nice desktop environment
Also proprietary software. Unfortunately, many people still need Adobe.
I personally like Krita, Shotcut, and Darktable better than any of the Adobe products I used to use, but it's a real issue.
E: Add "many people"
The micro-kernel design on macOS has benefits over Linux's monolithic kernel.
You also get POSIX compliance.
macOS doesn't have a microkernel, but it does have userland drivers and it's pretty good at being macOS/iOS. Linux's oom-killer doesn't work nearly as well as jetsam.
macOS has a Hybrid kernel with a decent portion being micro components I thought?
Mach started as a microkernel, but when they jammed together Mach and BSD they put it in the same process so it's not really separated anymore.
Recently there are some hypervisor-like things for security, and more things have been moving to userland instead of being kexts. I'd still say it's less of a microkernel than Linux since it doesn't have FUSE.