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Mac - best light laptop. e: and ML station
Linux - best server/programmer workstation.
Windows - best gaming machine.
It’s been like that for some years.
I do ML stuff on my Mac that even the most expensive RTX 4090 could dream of being able to do, because of a buttload of shared memory
As a developer I’ve been missing most of my tools on Linux, and the OS is just catching up.
Friendly remember that macOS is a Unix system that can run any Linux software, meaning that anything done on Linux can be done on macOS.
Proton makes Linux a perfectly fine gaming platform, with sometimes even better performance on Proton than native Windows…
Anyway Windows sucks, that we can agree on
macOS isn't Unix and doesn't contain Unix code. It was based on FreeBSD which is "Unix-like" but has moved further and further away from that.
macOS also can't just run all Linux applications. That's nonsense. It doesn't use the Linux kernel or its APIs and ABIs.
I am interested in what tools are missing on Linux that exist on macOS?
Literally UNIX. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
Windows NT also used to be POSIX complaint. Is it Unix?
Maybe I care about things other than API and ABI compatibility, like I dunno actually having Unix code?