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Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by illusive4080 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:20PM (#45661863)
I agree that Debian beats Homebrew. But wouldn’t a persistent Debian container on Mac be better? WSL is nothing more than a container on the system, no?

The Mac hardware is vastly superior to most Windows laptops, especially enterprise Windows laptops.

Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by spankibalt on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:52PM (#45663276)
> The Mac hardware is vastly superior to most Windows laptops, especially enterprise Windows laptops.

Man alive, what you mean is normie "Apple-style" Windows laptops with a bit of an "enterprise" makeover. Mobile enterprise workhorses (e. g. Panasonic, Getac)? Apple has no hardware in this segment. Detachables with extended five-year warranties plus certified dual-OS support? Nothing. Some of you fruit afficionados need to get out more.

Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by dpifke on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:36PM (#45662036)
With Windows 11, WSL has X and Wayland support, so you can run graphical applications as if they're native (e.g. share the same cut-and-paste buffer, switch between windows using alt+tab, and so on). It's also much easier to attach USB devices like Yubikeys to an already-running container than the last time I tried to do the same with Parallels. (That was quite a few years ago, so maybe it's gotten better.) You can also launch Windows applications from Linux, which is makes it trivial to control my (Windows-native) browser from within WSL.

I strongly disagree about Mac hardware vs. Thinkpads or Framework, but to each their own.

Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by Wingy on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:34PM (#45664309)
You can do that at least for CLI apps with OrbStack. Not sure if it has X or Wayland support.
Re:Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via S... by pjmlp on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:18AM (#45667417)
My Thinkpad has CUDA and native Vulkan support, with hardware specs that are 1000 euros cheaper than getting the same capabilities on a Mac laptop.