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The obvious answer: you can't. I work in constrained environment with an IT department that provides the hardware and (most of) the software I develop on. I a
by FeloniousHam 1y ago
The obvious answer: you can't. I work in constrained environment with an IT department that provides the hardware and (most of) the software I develop on. I agree with all the WSL cheering here, it integrates almost seamlessly.
But you're asking the wrong question. It should be "why not use MacOS?" if you need a stable UI with UNIX underneath :).
- bayindirh 1y agoThat's another sound option, but as a person who doesn't like Homebrew and stuffing /usr/local with tons of things, a lightweight Linux VM becomes mandatory after some point on macOS, too. Other than that, macOS plus some tools (Fileduck, Forklift, Tower, Kaleidoscope to name a few), you can be 99% there.
- p_ing 1y agoHomebrew on arm64 installs to /opt/homebrew.
- bayindirh 1y agoOh. They changed it at last? This is good news. Thanks for letting me know.
- rcleveng 1y agoYup absolutely. I use macos as my daily driver, but any real work on it happens on a linux container or VM. Using one of {cursor, vscode, windsurf} with a devcontainer is a much better approach for me.
- skydhash 1y agoCurrent macos is going the windows direction with some architecture choice (default uninstallable software, settings panel mess, meaningless updates,…)