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Re:macOS Containers v0.0.1 by urxvtcd on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @05:01AM (#37656421)
Anecdotal evidence, but here it goes.

I moved from Linux to M1 MacBook recently. I know my greps and vims, but I was tired of audio glitches during high CPU usage, system not waking up from sleep, total OS freezes, super loud fans, and so on.

Now I get none of that. I don't think I've ever heard the fans. Audio just works, everything is super snappy. It always wakes up. I'm no longer afraid of bluetooth.

And on top of that, setting my $DAYJOB VPN took three minutes and it just works, where on Linux I had constant problems with DNS breaking, and setting it up was always an hour of work, praying I got the config files right this time.

It really seems to be "unixy desktop with working sound", the best of both worlds.

Re:macOS Containers v0.0.1 by stonewhite on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @05:22AM (#37656598)
Exactly my experience. After 15 years, I became an apple fanboy in 15 days. I still do hate losing my muscle memory on some bash shortcuts, but I'd say it was very much worth it.
Re:macOS Containers v0.0.1 by dtech on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:13AM (#37657060)
You can just install a recent bash with homebrew and use that as your terminal.
Re:macOS Containers v0.0.1 by tipsytoad on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:24AM (#37657158)
Karabiner and applescripts can get you pretty far
Re:macOS Containers v0.0.1 by entrepy123 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @05:36PM (#37666110)
Homebrew has GNU utils to smooth over the differences in package options.

  [0] https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/coreutils
  [1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69223/how-to-replace-mac-os-x-utilities-with-gnu-core-utilities