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Re:Ode to the M1 by baq on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:45AM (#37107919)
You’re out of luck if you need docker.

M1 Macs would make fantastic Linux laptops, because macOS is appallingly bad at backend development. It makes it up in sheer hardware power and efficiency, otherwise I’d be completely at loss why it’s so loved.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by aembleton on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:12AM (#37108108)
> macOS is appallingly bad at backend development

That's news to me. In what way are they bad compared to Linux? Both can run docker, Intellij, Insomnia and Dbeaver.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by camgunz on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:52AM (#37108672)
The main thing is Docker requires emulation
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Re:Ode to the M1 by aembleton on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:24PM (#37114049)
True although if you develop for arm then you can use virtualisation. Still, performance wise I've not noticed any impact.
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Re:Ode to the M1 by hdjfkfbfbr on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:28AM (#37108543)
Docker runs fine... Both x64 and arm64 containers run
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Re:Ode to the M1 by baq on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:21PM (#37111334)
It requires a full VM. macOS is the only OS with that requirement.
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Re:Ode to the M1 by hdjfkfbfbr on Sunday August 13, 2023 @07:42PM (#37115765)
And? It still runs fine.
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Re:Ode to the M1 by baq on Monday August 14, 2023 @01:17AM (#37117701)
It works. It doesn’t work fine. It breaks, sometimes in a way you need to manually clean it up.
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