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I switched from Mac to WSL last year and yes, in some ways it is smoother. Having for example apt-get on top of the NT kernel is better than Homebrew on Darwin.

I switched from Mac to WSL last year and yes, in some ways it is smoother. Having for example apt-get on top of the NT kernel is better than Homebrew on Darwin. It's worse in other ways that are slowly getting fixed, such as the sad state of terminal emulators on Windows. At least one thing will probably always be better on Mac: Settings/Defaults system with Plist files vs. Windows settings and the Registry. But to me that doesn't justify the lack of good laptop hardware choices anymore - PC laptops are so much better nowadays.

acdha 7y ago
> Having for example apt-get on top of the NT kernel is better than Homebrew on Darwin Can you go into more detail about why that's the case — package selection, versioning policies, etc.? The main thing I've typically found is testing version-matched deployments and Docker has made me care about that a lot less.
- m_mueller 7y ago
  Sure, we're heavily docker based too, but for development toolchain it's really valuable to have such a well supported package manager as apt. It's not just about package availability but community support - you have the same tooling locally that is widely used server side, so lots more documentation exists for it. Same goes for Linux userland vs. BSD.