Yeah, I meant unlike with Linux you can’t change certain core functionality of your OS. Stuff like just entirely replacing the window manager for a different one. You can do a lot of powerful stuff with kernel extensions, but even those are limited (and apple made it a lot more complicated to install kernel extensions on Apple Silicon compared to how it worked on Intel Macs)
Yeah I meant to exclude those types of OS level changes, good point.
I quit web dev before Apple silicon took over (I bought one of the last intel laptops because I’m a Luddite about losing my old apps and weird projects.
Yeah, I meant unlike with Linux you can’t change certain core functionality of your OS. Stuff like just entirely replacing the window manager for a different one. You can do a lot of powerful stuff with kernel extensions, but even those are limited (and apple made it a lot more complicated to install kernel extensions on Apple Silicon compared to how it worked on Intel Macs)
Yeah I meant to exclude those types of OS level changes, good point.
I quit web dev before Apple silicon took over (I bought one of the last intel laptops because I’m a Luddite about losing my old apps and weird projects.