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macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac" (www.apple.com)
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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It's not that slow. https://www.imore.com/tests-show-apples-m1-emulates-x86-faster-intel-can-run-it-natively

    Edit: actually I just benchmarked it and containerized x86 Linux runs at like 40% of native speed. So yeah, that's pretty freakin slow.

    FWIW arm64 containers ran at nearly native speed, so it's the x86 emulation that seems to be causing the slowdown.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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

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