ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 26 days agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down16 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·25 days agoFeels very arbitrary. Why would I care about say MacOS versus FreeBSD or say NeXTSTEP (just to be provocative)? Anyway I’m being pulled away from the actual argument, the “bare metal” argument is about performances, isn’t it?
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-224 days agoYes, the systems people actually use vs every system that exists. Very arbitrary
minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 days agoWhat I mean is that MacOS is proprietary and runs on specific hardware, it’s by design not meant to be interoperable so it’s not “just” popularity.
Feels very arbitrary. Why would I care about say MacOS versus FreeBSD or say NeXTSTEP (just to be provocative)?
Anyway I’m being pulled away from the actual argument, the “bare metal” argument is about performances, isn’t it?
Yes, the systems people actually use vs every system that exists. Very arbitrary
What I mean is that MacOS is proprietary and runs on specific hardware, it’s by design not meant to be interoperable so it’s not “just” popularity.