Re:Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
by abhixec on Friday July 18, 2025 @08:05PM
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If you you can single command in Linux, what prevented you to do the same on Macos?
brew install <the_commandline_tool> and you should have been able to run the command in macos too.
Re:Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?
by herbst on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:37AM
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That's a weird assumption. I am not talking about cd and grep I am talking about one of the thousands of tools available in any Linux repo.
It's more likely to get it run on WSL than assuming it would just work on a Mac.
Not to mention that it looks and feels old, which most people likely don't care as it's still more modern than windows ever was since 95.
You will constantly pay the differences. In the 1 year or so I worked with a Mac I bought like 10 <$5 tools for things that would be a single command in Linux.
Depending on your hardware and what you do it will be slower, or slightly faster. If it's faster in anything it will likely run hot enough to cook some eggs on it.