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I think Apple is really sleeping on making this run a Linux server. These things are very capable and draw very little wattage when idle. It would make an excellent homelab device, but MacOS currently holds it back in this regard.

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i use linux a ton too, but still wonder what you want in a Linux server that macos as a BSD server does not have.

I'll probably manage with Mac OS well enough, but my linux distro comes out of the box with all the latest OSS tooling I'm familiar with, plus a package manager, and it has linux cgroups and namespaces that power the container technologies we all know and love.

If I switch to Mac OS, I have to sort out a package manager and install all the stuff that's missing, and when it comes to containers... they're just linux VMs. I'd happily cut out the weird proprietary middleman if I could.

Linux for argument’s sake, may have a few things that are better than Mac OS but Apple being the last vertical computer company from the 1980s, I don’t think they have any interest in using Linux, not after Next, Motorola, IBM, Intel and Nvidia in the past. They don’t need to they appear to navigate thru tech very well in comparison to Microsoft or Intel, for example.

i know what you mean; just in case you hadn't seen this (which is recent)

https://github.com/apple/container

Interesting, thanks for the link. Hopefully this will all become very relevant for me soon!

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