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> Meanwhile, my Windows machine updates itself whenever, often even in the middle of overnight computing tasks. This pushed me to Mac. Being more Unix-like, it
by FredPret 3y ago
> Meanwhile, my Windows machine updates itself whenever, often even in the middle of overnight computing tasks.
This pushed me to Mac. Being more Unix-like, it's vastly better in terms of the control I have over the system. But I'm still not a 100% owner of my platform, so I now use an actual Linux server to run compute tasks.
There's a nice synergy between using Mac and Linux - many of the same scripts, commands, and concepts work identically.
- magnio 3y ago> There's a nice synergy between using Mac and Linux - many of the same scripts, commands, and concepts work identically. I switched to a Mac a few months ago from Windows and I kinda hate the small differences with Linux, I like WSL much better. On top of my head, - No systemd - No native docker - No valgrind (there is https://github.com/LouisBrunner/valgrind-macos https://github.com/LouisBrunner/valgrind-macos though) I basically have to install a Linux VM on Mac just for this, at which point WSL on Windows is a much better tradeoff IMO.
- FredPret 3y agoI'm not super familiar with WSL; does it allow you full access to all your files, or is it a fenced-off environment? On my Mac I have various cronjobs and scripts running that work copy-paste the same as on a real server. I even have Nginx serving static files for local development!