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Is it possible to run a Linux OS (NixOS) on M2 Macs and forget about MacOS toyally and expect reasonable performance?


The performance isn't the issue but the stability is. Anyways this is a hardware compat and tutorial on how to install nixOS on the M series of apple computers : https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...


Check out what Mitchell Hashimoto (from HashiCorp) does w/ Nix on Mac for developer setup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDMLoWz76U


In a word, no.

Apple has kicked errbody out of kernel space over security concerns, so even companies with 25 years of experience writing network virtualization kernel extensions must now instead use Apple's vastly inferior macOS facility that can reduce performance by as much as 80%.


..never mind if it cost the equivalent of several m2ultras discovering what I wrote, -1 doh.

OTOH, I don’t believe much of what I read on here because of such direct negative experiences like this (being downvoted on stuff I have first hand knowledge of) —and that truly is priceless.




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