• nesc@lemmy.cafe
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        Anyone can become an official unix system if they would pay up. Random rhel rebuilts were ‘official unix system’ at one point or another.

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        If you access the guts of a Mac through CLI tools, I have some questions. Is it legal from the Apple point of view? Will it void your warranty?

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          No, using a Mac won’t void the warranty. It’s not a secured platform in the way iOS or a game console is.

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          There are a couple of safeguards, but by and large you can. And terminal is a pre-installed Apple app, of course it’s Apple “approved.”

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            And a lot of those safe guards (like the System Integrity Protection) can be turned off, if that’s what you like. The terminal together with the homebrew package manager make macOS a really good place to be, if you can’t get rid of some software that won’t run on Linux (like the Adobe suite).

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      MacBooks are legitimately just superior laptops, especially now that apple silicon is well supported. I don’t like iPhones or their desktops, but the laptops are pretty much unmatched in terms of portability, features, battery life etc

      I am an unabashed Linux stan but I use a macbook to ssh into my Linux boxes because there is no Linux laptop which is half as good.