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macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
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I’ve used Linux as my main OS for most of the last 16-17 years and switched full-time to Mac a year ago.
It’s absolutely foolish to compare the two OSes.
Does Linux give you a lot of flexibility? Sure. But I can trash my Mac laptop’s install and be back up and running exactly where I left off with a restored-from-backup install in an hour.
Can you get that with a homebrew setup where you archive BTRFS/ZFS snapshots elsewhere? Sure. But I’m at the point of my life where I simply do not care anymore to fuck with it.
The extra $500-1000 or whatever is a completely meaningless amount of money for an out-of-box experience that “just works” without fiddling with stuff.
Admittedly, NixOS fixes this with a single config file that can rebuild your system in minutes, then the built-in backup tool can restore your files. So yes, absolutely. That being said, that's limited to a few declarative distros
I haven't messed with NixOS but just using Nix is fantastic. I've been meddling with it on-and-off in VMs for the last few months and I'm a big fan.