What can you do on Linux that you can't do on macOS?
Be hetero
>>106660074>Be hetero>linuxpick one
>>106659920Sourcing hardware from different vendors. Customizing the hardware. Using different user interfaces.
>>106659920Not have my laptop tell Tim Cook and Israel my location and everything on my hard drive whenever I turn it on
>>106659920view and modify its source code
>>106659920you cant start the docker daemon on a Mac without launching docker desktop
>>106660074Thigh high socks and a wig doesn't make it any less gay anon
>>106660257All that shit is optional anon. This isn't Windows, nobody is forcing you to log into your Apple account just to be able to use the computer normally.
>>106659920Linux offers several capabilities that are either impossible or significantly more difficult to achieve on macOS, primarily due to its open-source nature, modular design, and focus on user control. These include running on virtually any hardware, including very old or specialized systems, without vendor lock-in, extensive visual and functional customization of the desktop environment, and the ability to run the operating system from removable media on any compatible hardware. Linux also provides superior support for containerization, advanced system-level resource controls, and the ability to perform system upgrades without requiring a reboot.
>>106659920boot from external medium
run it on my computer
>>106659920Why did you replace the the beautiful PowerBook with this butterfly keyboard crap
>>106660074FPBPGNU/Linux focuses on user choice to be hetero or gay.macOS focuses on forcing you to accept the dogma, therefore default gay.
>>106659920I can type "I don't believe the Holocaust happened, but I wish it did" without my webcam turning on.
>>106659920Why does linux need to?
Was it ever confirmed the last powerbook g4 silicon had two cores with one disabled?
>>106661018>butterfly keyboard Apple got rid of that shit back in 2019 and went back to scissor switches.Always preferred the look of the ibook anyway, a shame the rubber base makes finding a good one now impossible. Powerbook just looks like a regular ass laptop, a holdover from the Sculley years.
>>106659920> ramajeet the spamming child sex offender mental breakdown thread #987938479853https://desuarchive.org/g/search/image/WMS8X7MbvM9hxck7Rj1E4g/
>>106659920- Avoid sucking crApple's diseased cock.- Get work done.- Easier to use OSs, like Ubuntu.- Potentially be using hardware with far better warranty policy, or really good machines from Dell, Asus, or Lenovo that aren't very likely to crap out on you, or be running your software on a custom, cherrypicked rig that will last you a long time, and you'll have equal or greater performance for less money than whatever crApple toys.- Tweak OS source code as needed or desired.- More flexibility in what kinds of tools you can use and what kinds of problems you can fix or tasks you can tackle in hardware and software. (This is why Linux is always win for me. Windows, too.)
>>106659920Use a vastly larger variety of hardware. Run most of the internet.
>>106659920Run it on a platform that's not x86 or ARM
>>106660858Bullshit
>>106659920Have privacy.
>>106660599use case?
>>106662021this. everything is backdoored to hell, but linux isn't finding a way to optimize selling me a new toothbrush and reporting how many times a day i press the tilde key.
>>106661854do you think a PowerBook G4 is x86 or ARM?
>>106660705https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
>>106659920why does linux need to do more while macos and windows get away with doing less
>>106663205obsolete. use upstream lima which now fully supports containers.https://lima-vm.io/docs/faq/colima/
>>106663104Writing a custom hardware driver and adding it as a module to your Linux system
>>106663230why not Podman?
>>106659920>What can you do on Linux that you can't do on macOS?big boy things
>>106663258https://blog.podman.io/2025/08/podman-5-6-released-rosetta-status-update/
>>106663287>Our Podman machine OS images for Macs are highly customized and derived from a Fedora CoreOS base image. The 6.13 kernel, which came into Fedora earlier this spring, has some new kernel structures added to it. When attempting to use Apple Rosetta with a 6.13 kernel, Rosetta is doing the equivalent of a segfault. This means if we released a machine image with anything above Linux 6.12, amd64 machine translation with Rosetta would not work for our users.kek. stubbornly using bleeding-edge fedora as their vm.
>>106660257You're thinking of microshit
>>106663287>>106663331
>>106663258you want macos's modern virtualization.framework not older, low-level hypervisor.framework.everyone but podman switched to virtualization.framework since virtualization.framework has Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) which makes shared filesystems between host and guest fast.https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisorhttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization
>>106659920Play Windows games
>>106663332Every breath you takewww.inverse.com/article/16929-apple-watch-will-now-remind-ou-to-breatheEvery move you makewww.stopspying.org/latest-news/2021/10/1/stop-condemns-apple-for-tracking-iphone-location-when-turned-offEvery bond you breakacecilia.medium.com/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-their-servers-for-every-piece-of-software-you-run-on-your-mac-b0bb509eee65Every step you takewww.komando.com/security-privacy/secret-map-tracking-apple/465598I'll be watching youarchive.is/2024.10.10-000653/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillanceEvery single dayhttps://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-nowEvery word you saywww.foxbusiness.com/technology/apples-siri-is-eavesdropping-on-your-conversations-putting-users-at-riskEvery game you playtechstory.in/apple-slammed-by-epic-games-chief-for-spyware-toolsEvery night you staywww.thehackernews.com/2017/10/iphone-camera-spying.htmlI'll be watching youwww.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/11/apple-sued-for-pervasive-and-unlawful-data-trackingOh, cant you seeYou belong to metruthout.org/articles/apple-employee-blows-whistle-on-illegal-spying-and-toxic-working-conditionsHow my poor heart achesWith every step you takenakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/13/siri-is-listening-to-you-but-shes-not-spying-says-appleEvery move you makegizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gatheringEvery vow you breakappleinsider.com/articles/16/09/29/apple-acknowledges-tracking-imessage-metadata-and-sharing-it-with-law-enforcementEvry smile you fakeabc4.com/news/tech-social-media/yes-your-iphone-is-taking-invisible-pictures-of-youEvery claim you stakewonderfulengineering.com/u-s-apple-store-employees-are-working-to-unionize-and-theyre-using-android-phones-to-keep-apple-from-spying-on-themI'll be watching youhttps://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours
>>106663437thanks for the input, didn't know that
>>106663147do you think current macos can run on a p-p-p-powerbook?
>>106659920Install a window manager that isn't garbage.
>>106663671yes?https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/xnu-1504.15.3[quote]$ ~rc/bin/buildit . -arch ppc -arch i386 -noinstallsrc -nosum[/quote]
>>106663683window managers are for unemployed people who have too much time
>>106663732i'm aware the kernel is oss, but i said macos, macos isn't linux in that it's (just) a kernel
>>106659920>run docker natively>run the os headless
>>106663449mac plays windows games about as good as linux now.
>>106663147macOS can't run on a PowerBook G4
Run a dedicated server with discreet hardware
>>106663242You literally can do that though. Kext are kernel module extensions (hence the name K(ernel)EXT(ension). Nobody is stopping you from writing your own drivers at home.
>>106663242not a macfag, but isn't that like, the one thing you can do in terms of system modification? like i'm pretty sure macos's kernel is open source, not much else is, but the kernel last i checked is
>>106659920Jump from GUI to terminal session.>handy when something odd happens>or driver gets jacked up>or whatever
>>106659920>What can you do on Linux that you can't do on macOS?software that Just Works (usually... just like on macOS) that doesn't nickel&dime youno fucking popups about random bullshitnobody trying to upsell you on their shit-ass servicesno endless screeching about updates, full of dark patterns to get you to agreewindows are actually square and not squircles with half an inch radius, and (whoa) they fucking snap to where you'd want them to without installing extra softwarelinux also allows you to run some crazy advanced software, like a music player with waveform seekbar, which just isn't possible on mac
>>106666602>macos just werksnoits not even conformant to its own documentation>>106666754its the literal worst
Why does Linux need to do more than the other OSes anywayPeople say it sucks because its free in which case wouldn't it be hypocritical to do that
>>106666888it needs to be good to the point people don't feel like they're missing out on a lot by using it instead of macos / winblowsand it's questionable whether it's true for 95% of the population
load kernel modules so i can properly talk to and control my $13000 wideband SDR setupuse a window manager doesn't suck dick and balls
>>106666602>linux>it just worksthese don't belong in the same sentence, linux exists because it doesn't just work
>>10666691795% of the population wouldn't be using computers if we weren't shitting up society by cramming them everywhere and making them do everything.
I prefer using a computer made by a company that's not evil™
>>106659920>Containers>Virtualization without hassle>Sandboxed environments>Vidya
>>106666917That doesn't answer my question because op isn't asking the general population
>>106659920run a dedicated server, other than that Linux has no other use cases
>>106660074FPBP
>>106659920Start an application with launch arguments from the dock without ending with two icons on the dock or getting it overwritten after every app update.
>>106666954works on my machine
have sex
>>106659920Install shit without having to play hide-and-seek with a faggot "allow install" button
>>106666978Try to use some actual quotes from Chromebook reviews. I'm certain they were not so positive.
>>106665610It's not open source. Darwin is a stolen freeBSD kernel, modified and later closed.
>>106659920Uninstall the default browser.
>>106666978>gimped keyboardThanks, but I'm sticking with ThinkPad/GNU/Linux.>TM and © 2025 Sneed's Feed and Seed, Inc. [...] For more information, visit >>>/g/kek
>>106668605You can't even uninstall the default chess gameYou also can't remove the default animated wallpaper that takes up half a gigabyteYou can't remove the gimped DAW for beginners that no one who actually wanted to produce music would ever use, but it takes up gigabytes of space
>>106659920Most retards don't even know who J. Hourihan is. He created Dynamation, which was later used as a base for Maya particles. He's a real genius unlike some other faggots.
>>106659920>Debian logo in an official Apple ad
Desktop ricing. Cli tools and dev support is largely the same. There is greater compatibility between macOS / Linux style workflows than there is between windows / Linux. And that’s including things like WSL2.
>>106666602>no fucking popups about random bullshitYou don’t really see that on macOS, but it’s all over the place on windows.
>>106660074fpbp
>>106670858he never used a mac
>>106668710>One of the key innovators during this time was special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen, who created his own unique brand of stop-motion model animation called “Dynamation.”so, who did it now?
>>106663732That's not macOS
>>106659920upgrade my storage by 256gb without paying $300+
