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macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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2603 points mattsolle | 3 comments | 12 Nov 20 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source
1. apatheticonion ◴[13 Nov 20 09:50 UTC] No.25080728[source]▶
After AMD released their Zen 2 lineup and the prospect of considerably faster compile times became attainable, I re-evaluated my relationship with MacOS.

I bought a new AMD PC and initially hackntoshed it. This actually worked out great but after some time I decided to jump over and see if I could live with WSL under Windows.

Windows is not as nice as MacOS, but WSL1 (tried WSL2 for a few months but still prefer WSL1) has allowed me take advantage of affordable high performance hardware and maintain support for the software I use daily.

I may buy a low powered MacBook laptop in future (because there are no Windows laptops with a trackpad that compares) but I don't think I will ever use it as a primary desktop environment again.

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2. m463 ◴[15 Nov 20 01:43 UTC] No.25097389[source]▶
This is inconsistent - microsoft is arguably many times worse than apple in regard to telemetry and things like forced updates.
3. Shorel ◴[16 Nov 20 00:54 UTC] No.25106686[source]▶
Why not running Linux directly?