![]() ![]() Outside of a few niche apps like iOS/macOS CI or development, macOS is not designed to be a server. ![]() I'm not a Mac user, but macOS is a great desktop and a terrible server. Apple Silicon, where Linux is unfinished), and server software focuses on Linux and BSD and in the days of Docker, can ignore natively running on macOS. You can "use" macOS as a "server", but it's not worth it unless you have to (e.g. For enterprises, why limit yourself to overpriced Apple hardware and mediocre software when a Dell running Ubuntu can do the same? Especially if Dell is more committed to the server than Apple, and Ubuntu focuses on servers but not macOS? ![]() ![]() Something you can get from Ubuntu or the countless number of Linux and BSD distros. OS X Server (when it was a thing) was nothing more than a wrapper around FOSS packages. And there's no Apple Cloud Platform or new Mac Server hardware. Microsoft cares about the server as a platform, so that's why Windows Server is a thing, that's why Azure is a thing. Apple has given up on the server as a platform, both hardware and software wise. Inherently, Apple today is a consumer electronics company, not an enterprise IT shop. The reality is that unless you're planning to run Linux, *BSD, or Windows Server instead of macOS, you're gonna be disappointed. ![]()
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