Delta_VSep 29

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks

https://lemmy.world/post/36650786

Show threada_fancy_kiwiSep 29

Windows with an X2 Elite or Mac with an M5.

Let me know when these X elite chips have full Linux compatibility and then I’ll be interested. Until then, if I’ll stick with Mac, it has the better hardware.

Show threadclucoseSep 29
Friendly Question: has M4 full linux support?
Show threadSnot FlickermanSep 29
Not who you asked, but at bare minimum macOS continues to be certified UNIX.
Show threadmasterofn001Sep 29
GNU is Not Unix.
Show threadSiru
Absolutely ture, your comment being? I think they were simply referencing the fact that there is a lot more software out there that can be made to semi easily run on linux/unix based systems.
Sep 29 at 7:05pmWeb
Show threadSnot FlickermanSep 29
Also while Linux is not the same as UNIX, interacting with them is much more similar than, say, interacting with Windows. They use a lot of the same conventions and managing macOS can be a lot like managing Linux if you want it to be.
Show threadsilasmarinerSep 29
As long as you don’t try to use sed or grep. Literally the only reason I learned perl was because of the flag incompatibilities between macos Unix and Linux utils.
Show threadgalaxy_novaSep 29
Yeah true, but if you use macOS expecting Linux that doesn’t make any sense. Then it’d just be Linux with a different DE lol. Hopefully doesn’t come across as snarky but pointing these differences out always seems rather pointless to me, they do exist but I mean yeah it’s not the same os.
Show threadsilasmarinerSep 30

Yeah I guess, but it’s still annoying to have identically named tools that do the same job but aren’t compatible. Or, like, base64 -d on macos can gobble the last char of output. So then you have to homebrew coreutils or something, but it just means that stuff that you feel should work compatibly out-of-the-box doesn’t, and writing *nix scripts without perl is just a pita.

I forget what my point here is.

Show threadwoelkchenSep 29

Also while Linux is not the same as UNIX, interacting with them is much more similar than, say, interacting with Windows.

If you use only GUI, the underlying system philosophy is practically irrelevant.

If you use CLI, you can literally use the same distribution within WSL as you use on a Linux computer. I like using openSUSE’s zypper in WSL more than I like brew on macOS.

Show threadgalaxy_novaSep 29
Yeah brew sucks ass