On Sunday January 05 2020 05:11:02 Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >One could always run one's preferred Linux distro under VirtualBox on macOS, >to have assured access to one's desired apps. That wouldn't help much for >really hardware-intensive graphics of course (a VM likely having at best >limited access to hardware acceleration), but for most others, should work, >even if not particularly conveniently.
I meant to add to a previous message that one can find PCs that will run a recent Linux distro plenty fast enough for a fraction of the price of a Mac. Even if the X11 server goes the way of the dodo, libX11, libxcb etc. will (hopefully) see continued development as long as there is demand for running X11 apps (and those can display via a Wayland compositor). Even those client-side layers have limitations on Mac that could be improved, making it possible to do the heavy-lifting on a Mac and the displaying on a remote X11 terminal just like that was the norm at some point. (I'm assuming here that on-GPU computing doesn't go through X11 APIs.) R. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list (X11-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
