What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux?
I get it on Windows systems, at least when someone wants to use Linux-type tooling. But macOS already supports pretty much all of that natively?
What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux?
I get it on Windows systems, at least when someone wants to use Linux-type tooling. But macOS already supports pretty much all of that natively?
Comparing to Linux is too general. You need to say what distro and what install level. I really only use headless Linux, but I've never logged into a fresh install and not had to do some sort of 'apt install devel-packages' equivalent for which ever distro being used. That's the same thing with macOS after choosing which package manager to use. I don't see how Linux vs macOS is very different
> What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux?
For starters, the source code.
And why would you need that to run LLMs?
Apart from that, for the UNIX part, the source is available for quite a few components:
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions
notably also the kernel
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
> Apart from that, for the UNIX part, the source is available for quite a few components:
Strictly speaking, Apple can claim to ship a UNIX® operating system:
* https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm
* https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
Darwin is still available. Open source no one’s picked up the gauntlet…
Yeah for a while they used that in marketing copy actually, but it's been a while I think.
> And why would you need that to run LLMs?
kokonokko1337 already said it was good enough to run LLMs, presumably RunSet isn't saying the source code is needed to run an inference server.
They say, not doing anything with Linux’s source code other than mentioning its existence.