Um when I talk virtual machines it's so I can get environments I control onto my machine. I'm not hosting people I don't trust on my laptop...
In that environment the risks of running something in a a VM or container are the same as running it directly on your desktop - or less. I use Mac laptop and Emacs as my primary Dev environment. Certainly there are differences between that and a Unix distro but I find them minor. The Mac is POSIX compliant, but the UI is certainly different from linux's GUI. I think it's better, but obviously mileage varies. For me the "killer app" is my photo workflow using Lightroom and Photoshop, I can well believe you might have some native linux app or customisation you can't live without. On Sat., 30 Sep. 2017, 3:53 pm Tomasz Rola, <[email protected]> wrote: > Alok, Charles - thank you for the answers. Very much appreciated, > because there is no way I could run "MacOS experiment" on a spare > *puter - no time, no money. > > Well, so it looks like even though Emacs works without problem, there > would have been some limitations if I moved to MacOS and I would have > to redesign good part of my dataflow, and not quite for the better. I > have kind of suspected that, but it is good to have some info on the > subject. > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 03:38:23AM +0000, Alok Singh wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 02:22 Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > would that be under MacOS - I mean, virtual desktops, ram disk, > > > lots of windows? > > > > > > > Haha. [...] > > Haha? Oh my. > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:42:23AM +0000, Charles Haynes wrote: > > > > You didn't include virtual machines. [...] > > Yeah. VMs were very cool and sexy (technologically), but after hearing > of escaping code, rowhammer, ime and who knows what will future bring, > they have lost almost all of their technological charm. Certainly, a > rational actor will not waste time to have my archive of emails (and > most of it is on gog already), but irrational actor will be happy as > hell when destroying a decade or few of somebody's life. And I can > easily envision a future where rational actors will be minority. Thus > carelessly running alien code in VM, even one as well written as > Windows [0], is gradually becoming a non-option. Just MHO and I am not > sure yet how to react to this. > > [0] ... > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** >
