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Mac ships with their own posix subsystem, WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux and have access to a lot more bleeding edge packages.


To clarify, Mac ships with a native Unix [1], derived from BSD, not a posix subsystem. It has its own init (launchd) and its own GUI, but most of it is a Unix.

Using Macports or homebrew gets you most of the packages that are available for the various Linuxes, GNU utilities etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29


> WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux

Oh, I didn't know that, that does make it a bit more interesting to me!

I still think I'd be frustrated (as I am on Mac) with the lack of a configurable (or even of a choice of) window manager though.




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