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Mac users eagerly recommend importing Linux tools (Docker, Brew) to make MacOS a tolerable dev environment. But they completely miss the fact that Apple makes it illegal to do the reverse: I can not run a MacOS VM on Linux.

I can't understand the mindset that makes that kind of company behavior acceptable or the tradeoff worth it.



You don't want to anyway. OSX is slow without hardware graphics acceleration.

EDIT: I've hit my comment quota, here's my response: You don't need OSX for that, just their headers and libraries. People have built the build chain for Linux but it's useless without those and they cannot be redistributed.


I just need to build iOS apps without any added absurdity. It can run at 640x480 VGA for all I care.


I didn’t know Homebrew was so successful on Linux that someone would think it’s a Linux tool; that surprised me

(Homebrew started on Mac OS X)




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