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Just listing technologies that sound kind of similar isn’t enough to actually answer the problems people want solved. The “good old days” were basically just people crying about being unable to have any of the features we have now because they don’t match up or differ in subtly different ways.
Best way to solve problems is not to have them in first place, like getting a Linux laptop for doing Linux work.
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Lima ssh and you have WSL more or less. What are people missing?
For me, the primary draw of OrbStack is that it is very fast, which matters for me, as I wind up doing a lot of compute-bound things in containers. The fact that it provides a great dev experience similar to WSL2 is just a bonus.
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Yes, the macOS way, with Virtualization Framework.
The insane stability of the Linux ABI is partially what makes containers useful. The fact that containers can reliably depend on the ABI contract, thus placing almost any clib they wish they want inside the container is fairly unique. That extreme stability of that contract is awesome for namespace decoupling. Unfortunately Apple and Microsoft do not have such stable interfaces. Remember containers are just namespace…
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MacBook Air M2 16gb ram leasing: 30€ per month orbstack pro business license: 10€ per month I don't think the hardware cost is prohibitive here. It's the death of a thousand paper cuts of a startup. I agree that orbstack would be a good investment, though.
> MacBook Air M2 16gb ram leasing: 30€ per month How/where does one do this?
It's a 5 year contract, but the now 4 year old M1 16gb ram is still perfectly capable of running regular containerized web dev workloads (e.g. running supabase + 4 node applications)
I'm not sure I fully understand the technical differences between an OrbStack VM and a container, as both seem to use a shared kernel. What would be the closest alternative on Linux? LXD? I've grown accustomed to the convenience of OrbStack.
In fact, LXD is a bit better. The command line is more powerful, it supports snapshots, the network configuration is more comprehensive, there's a direct access to the host kernel, and the web UI is a nice touch since it can work from a headless VM if needed.
This was one of the few things I was missing on Asahi and Linux in general. Feels good.