Nina KalininaI know what I'm going to use when I finally decide to ditch MacOS
Guru_Meditation@nina_kali_nina Why ditching macOS?
@Guru_Meditation I don't want to update to MacOS with AI, and the one without AI will be unsupported soon. And even if I update to the latest available MacOS, I think my model will be unsupported in a couple of years tops. And it's perfectly good laptop otherwise. So I'm thinking it's not a bad idea to prevent e-waste by keeping my hardware running
@nina_kali_nina Oh i see! Good arguments. I'm also against AI, and since my 2019 MacBook Pro is at the very end of Tahoe's compatibility list, it will probably become unsupported with the next major release.
For the moment i still use Sonoma, because i'm a little afraid that some important things could break with next releases, like LTFS (and i now know that Firewire support is gone). But i will probably update. If i don't actively use AI related things, i hope they don't run in the background.🤞
For the moment i still use Sonoma, because i'm a little afraid that some important things could break with next releases, like LTFS (and i now know that Firewire support is gone). But i will probably update. If i don't actively use AI related things, i hope they don't run in the background.🤞
@nina_kali_nina And switching from Intel to Apple Silicon is also a big concern. Performances improvements seem to be great, but i use VMWare Fusion a lot and i'm uncertain of what i will loss because of new CPU. Being unable to upgrade the RAM anymore also means you have to anticipate future needs when buying new Mac, and repairability is lower (even if, to be honest, i never had a failing RAM yet).
@Guru_Meditation I'm on an M1 Mac already. When I first got it, VirtualBox worked great, I had a really useable x86 Linux guest in it. But a few OS updates later, Apple dropped the support for something kernel-module related, and now VirtualBox can only emulate Arm, which doesn't help me at all. Qemu still works, but its emulation of x86 is far slower. So, beware :(
bitzero@Guru_Meditation @nina_kali_nina
Asahi was an interesting project to keep using “old” M1 Macs (a M1 MacBook Air is still my job-related road warrior) but its actual status is meh, I think.
Asahi was an interesting project to keep using “old” M1 Macs (a M1 MacBook Air is still my job-related road warrior) but its actual status is meh, I think.
@bitzero @Guru_Meditation it's better than the alternative of not using the device at all, I think
@nina_kali_nina @Guru_Meditation
Definitely. And tbh, it's been a while since I tried a new install. I should give it another chance, and check what's new, good, bad.
Definitely. And tbh, it's been a while since I tried a new install. I should give it another chance, and check what's new, good, bad.