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Mac 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
by me551ah 8y ago
Mac 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.