• Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud
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    2 days ago

    Why do you need WSL?

    MacOS is BSD, so you can do most Linux things with an issue. But some of the BSD tools have different options the the GNU tools.

    We moved to Mac years ago and it makes doing almost everything I do a simples

    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      No. Mac is NOT BSD. Mac took the BSD user space from 20+ years ago. That’s all.

      I’m not sure why this myth keeps being repeated over and over.

      If that’s all it takes to “be” BSD, then windows is also BSD since the entire windows network stack was lifted from BSD

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      2 days ago

      because docker. it hard requires a linux kernel and is extremely slow on mac, just like it was on windows until they integrated with wsl.