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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by throawayonthe on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:22PM (#42121081)
well asahi is going to bring M4 support eventually and there is https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon

also you could just Containerize All The Things on macos idk

Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by cchance on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:14PM (#42121902)
Ya like i get the love for linux, but seriously give MacOSX a try for a while, its pretty damn good lol
Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by kaladin-jasnah on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @11:06PM (#42122803)
macOS simply doesn't work if I want to run this as a home server, which is my primary use case for an Apple silicon Mac. Most server applications are first class citizens on Linux, like Docker and Kubernetes and caddy/nginx (I know ports exist but there's more documentation and experience on Linux). Furthermore, systemd is a lot more documented than launchd and generally speaking it's easier to do things like upgrading headless, setting up NFS, and the like. I wish Apple offered these machines with official Linux support, but that's antithetical to their philosophy.
Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by darthrupert on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:58AM (#42124605)
For most developer things it's slightly worse, so to have to pay extra for it is a bit silly.
Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by fulafel on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @01:55AM (#42123554)
There's no container support on macOS unfortunately, except for the frontends for linux virtual machines.

(Well they do have a thing called containers, but it's a desktop app security/sandboxing feature that does something conceptually different)

Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by gorbypark on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:08AM (#42124673)
There's an extremely experimental/feature limited 3rd party implementation of macOS native containers. It requires disabling all sorts of security features, though.