[tekknik]

you don’t buy a $6k base machine to swap the os to linux, the entire reason to buy a mac is macos. also there’s a lot of us who still don’t trust AMD procs. I personally don’t as the only CPU I’ve ever had burn up was a bulldozer while transcoding. I’ve never even had the slightest problem with Intel procs so until AMD somehow reproves themselves to me without me spending a dime (which obviously will never happen) I don’t even consider them when speccing out a new machine

[mantap]

K8s is kubernetes, Linux containers. If you want to run it on macOS or Windows it runs inside a Linux VM. You might as well buy a Linux computer and SSH into it from your Mac, is the point.

[Terretta]

Not really*, see xhyve.

https://github.com/machyve/xhyve

Meaning, it’s not a heavy Virtualbox or Vmware type VM, no ‘vagrant up’ needed.

Instead:

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/hyperkit...

[lliamander]

There's still overhead in running containers on MacOS. File I/O is especially much slower in containers on Mac vs. natively on Linux.

[tekknik]

yes i’m fully aware of what kubernetes is. and your point is exactly mine, don’t buy a mac with the intent to run linux on it so thanks for confirming that for me