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A 2500$ windows desktop will give you. 1. A much better discrete GPU which can run titles in 4k. 2. Ability to run games cause windows has DirectX. 3. Abilit
by me551ah 8y ago
A 2500$ windows desktop will give you.
1. A much better discrete GPU which can run titles in 4k.
2. Ability to run games cause windows has DirectX.
3. Ability to run Linux natively using WSL.
4. Expandability - You can add components like more RAM or an additional GPU.
- OJFord 8y ago> 3. Ability to run Linux natively using WSL. But what are you doing in WSL that you can't do on a Mac (or, of course, a Linux machine) without a 'subsystem'? Sincere question, because the 'Mac is not Linux' things that wind me up tend to require X11 to fix, WSL would be no different.
- me551ah 8y agoMac ships with their own posix subsystem, WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux and have access to a lot more bleeding edge packages.
- rswail 8y agoTo clarify, Mac ships with a native Unix [1], derived from BSD, not a posix subsystem. It has its own init (launchd) and its own GUI, but most of it is a Unix. Using Macports or homebrew gets you most of the packages that are available for the various Linuxes, GNU utilities etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
- OJFord 8y ago> WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux Oh, I didn't know that, that does make it a bit more interesting to me! I still think I'd be frustrated (as I am on Mac) with the lack of a configurable (or even of a choice of) window manager though.
- wild_preference 8y agoYet it doesn't have the one thing someone would care about: macOS.