It's not the year of the Linux desktop just because your billionaire buddy is using it. If anything, it's been the year of the Linux desktop for many of us for years, you're all late to the party.

throwaway1482

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> How hard is it to emulate linux system calls?

Just replace the XNU kernel with Linux already.

throwaway1482

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Those can be emulated with the likes of SELinux, sockets, and bind mounts. It will take a lot of effort and some adaptation, but it could be done.

throwaway1482

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If they're going this way, why not just replace the macOS kernel (XNU) with Linux? They'll get so much more.

throwaway1482

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Well-known developer Enrico Weigelt just forked the X server from freedesktop.org after getting the boot [0].

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

[1] https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/

throwaway1482

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Qt*

QT == QuickTime.

throwaway1482

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Wim Taymans is the man!