Or perhaps this will be the perfect machine for the Asahi team to focus on…lots of demand at this price point, and a lean Linux install would make this machine fly.
I am curious how long Apple is going to continue to support XQuartz though. There seems to be no equivalent wayland project.
When forced to use macOS, a Linux VM provides a very convenient experience.
What really caught me out was I downloaded an x64 image once (there was no arm64 image) and it somehow just ran anyway in the arm64 VM. That may have been some qemu magic?
I love the macos/virtualised linux dev workflow, but is isn't better than plain linux. I'm just still not convinced GUI stuff works on linux as well as it does on macos and macbook hardware is so nice (if you're not paying for it).
> The standard specifies programming interfaces for the C language, a command-line shell, and user commands.
What else would be necessary to call it such?
[1] https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#macO...
Unix was a specific piece of software from a specific era. The experience of using it was very much unlike macOS for most users. Making it a "specification" was a later ret-con.
If someday Microsoft goes out of business and whoever acquires the trademarks makes a "Windows Specification", that you can meet and be legally considered Windows despite sharing zero code with the original, I would also think that was silly.
At most it makes sense to say that macOS has a sufficient set of features to emulate Unix, not that it is actually Unix.