Re:Lima: Linux-on-Mac
by samatman on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:24PM
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Just to address one part in detail, what "layer multiple third party tools" means in practice is: install brew, install gnu-utils, and add the relevant directory to $PATH.
It's fire and forget. I'm quite confident you can do it with ports, or even nix if you really want to.
I know it's subjective, but it doesn't feel like Apple is being "actively hostile" here. It's just configuring your system to be different from the default.
I don't even remember the steps in detail (like what does brew call the gnu utils?) because I did it, once, four years and three laptops ago. I actually did it seven years ago as well, but that laptop was stolen.
Edit: also, I didn't "flock to" OS X, I eagerly bought a G5 as soon as I could afford it, in 2003. I learned Unix on workstations (Sparcs mostly) and my Yggdrasil Linux partition was always a poor substitute in comparison. So when Apple started selling workstations? and they were Macs? Yes please!
It's fire and forget. I'm quite confident you can do it with ports, or even nix if you really want to.
I know it's subjective, but it doesn't feel like Apple is being "actively hostile" here. It's just configuring your system to be different from the default.
I don't even remember the steps in detail (like what does brew call the gnu utils?) because I did it, once, four years and three laptops ago. I actually did it seven years ago as well, but that laptop was stolen.
Edit: also, I didn't "flock to" OS X, I eagerly bought a G5 as soon as I could afford it, in 2003. I learned Unix on workstations (Sparcs mostly) and my Yggdrasil Linux partition was always a poor substitute in comparison. So when Apple started selling workstations? and they were Macs? Yes please!