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criddell on Nov 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Te...

What can you do on Linux that you can't do on macOS?

choward on Nov 17, 2020 | [–]

Automate the entire set up of my computer using a declarative language. I use NixOS. Mac OS isn't even close.

toast0 on Nov 17, 2020 | [–]

Have a TCP stack with synflood protection? (The mac stack was copied from FreeBSD in 2001, before syncookies/syncache were added, and not meaningfully pulled since)

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