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well asahi is going to bring M4 support eventually and there is https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon

also you could just Containerize All The Things on macos idk

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There's no container support on macOS unfortunately, except for the frontends for linux virtual machines.

(Well they do have a thing called containers, but it's a desktop app security/sandboxing feature that does something conceptually different)

There's an extremely experimental/feature limited 3rd party implementation of macOS native containers. It requires disabling all sorts of security features, though.

Ya like i get the love for linux, but seriously give MacOSX a try for a while, its pretty damn good lol

macOS simply doesn't work if I want to run this as a home server, which is my primary use case for an Apple silicon Mac. Most server applications are first class citizens on Linux, like Docker and Kubernetes and caddy/nginx (I know ports exist but there's more documentation and experience on Linux). Furthermore, systemd is a lot more documented than launchd and generally speaking it's easier to do things like upgrading headless, setting up NFS, and the like. I wish Apple offered these machines with official Linux support, but that's antithetical to their philosophy.

For most developer things it's slightly worse, so to have to pay extra for it is a bit silly.

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