ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square106linkfedilinkarrow-up1188 cross-posted to: nix@programming.dev
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minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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-21 year agoYes, the systems people actually use vs every system that exists
minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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
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.