• Matt The Horwood
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    -33 days ago

    Why do you need WSL?

    MacOS is BSD, so you can do most Linux things with an issue. But some of the BSD tools have different options the the GNU tools.

    We moved to Mac years ago and it makes doing almost everything I do a simples

    • lime!
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      113 days ago

      because docker. it hard requires a linux kernel and is extremely slow on mac, just like it was on windows until they integrated with wsl.

      • Matt The Horwood
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        -23 days ago

        I see, I don’t use docker all that much on my works Mac. So haven’t noticed the speed.

        Also is it the storage share that’s slow? As docker desktop is a VM

        • lime!
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          23 days ago

          well docker on mac is a fully emulated x86 vm. everything is slow.

          • Matt The Horwood
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            43 days ago

            Looking at the docs, I think the current docker desktop is native arm. QEMU is now deprecated

            • lime!
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              13 days ago

              yeah last i worked with it i was the first person in the company to evaluate the arm macs, and it basically couldn’t run our application at all. took a full 40 minutes to spin up, then crashed.

          • The_Decryptor
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            13 days ago

            That’s only if you’re running an x86 container right? It should be native with an ARM64 one.

            • lime!
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              23 days ago

              yeah. last i had a mac there were no arm containers though.

    • @[email protected]
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      No. Mac is NOT BSD. Mac took the BSD user space from 20+ years ago. That’s all.

      I’m not sure why this myth keeps being repeated over and over.

      If that’s all it takes to “be” BSD, then windows is also BSD since the entire windows network stack was lifted from BSD

      • Matt The Horwood
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        33 days ago

        it looks like a unix system enough that I can run most of my shell scripts, Windows on the other hand can get in the bin please