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Comment by em3rgent0rdr | Hacker News Reader

I find it a little absurd and obscene that Apple users will have to code free software projects for the sole purpose of satisfying basic user needs such as creating a bootable ISO. At some point it makes sense to leave the abusive relationship with apple and switch to an FOSS OS.

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Apple have a command line tool (createinstallmedia) for creating installable disk images, this is just a nice GUI for it.

As for why hackers use MacOS, eh, it’s just a tool. It does some things better than Linux or Windows, and some things worse. It’s UNIX abilities are pretty decent. At this point operating systems are sufficiently advanced tha I don’t know why we’re arguing about them, from a technical perspective. From a OSS Vs proprietary tech I get it

Actually you don't need any third party software to do this, Apple does provide a way of doing it, and if you have a look at the code of this program, it seems to be just a wrapper of this functionality: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

I'm curious; what user need is there to create ISO's vs the current way updates are distributed?

I can think of a small handful of corner cases (making iso's for e.g. virtualbox, whose OSX support is extremely minimal), but nothing that most users, or even developers, would run into on a day-to-day basis.

Sometimes you need to do a fresh install of a particular version, eg I had to install Mavericks for a guy for Pro Tools 11. It’s also a good way to install onto fresh media or do a clean install, or repair macs.

Maybe to replace the hard drive or fresh install. Or want a backup to return to after testing out a linux install which might fail.

Upvoted. I will never understand why hackers use OSX in the numbers they do.

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