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I highly doubt it. Microsoft embraced Linux because they knew Windows couldn't compete in the developer OS space. MacOS on the other hand is built on Unix and i

• TimTheTinker 6y ago
  Linux has been taking serious dev mindshare (and market share) from Apple for several years now. And I think Apple knows macOS can't compete with Linux as a development environment against browser, Linux, and cloud-based deployments. Witness how they made a point of demonstrating a Linux VM running on Apple silicon during the M1 introductory keynote, and how they continue to remove dev-oriented tooling, allowing third-party setups like homebrew to fill it in. It seems their goal is increasingly to focus on their end-user platform only, which for dev tooling means only focusing on XCode/etc. and not the Mac's capabilities for other deployment targets. ... which leaves an obvious gap for Linux to fill. In fact, given how large and capable Apple is these days, I think there's a good chance they'll put a bit more effort into helping Linux integration along (especially Linux in VMs on macOS -- that's probably the main plan at the moment). They realize they only stand to gain from such efforts.