Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions
by bangonkeyboard on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:14PM
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> More people have to suffer usually if software ends up long lived without being pushed to upgrade when there are newer technologies that improve the experience - it's a heavy price of others you're asking for a lot of times when choices have to be made between compatibility and improvements that often get discounted unreasonably.
I look at all of the Mac software I've lost and will lose to upgrades over the years, including the offline-only parts of my workflow that held back only myself, and weigh them against this bright new future of low-effort blown-up tablet apps on my desktop that they were sacrificed for. A heavy price certainly has been paid here.
Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions
by alacombe on Saturday June 22, 2019 @07:25PM
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Just think of all the software infrastructure you rely on is probably running COBOL or very, very old tech, you really don't want those to be re-written today. Also, the industry (think CNC controllers) relies on tried and true interfaces that are just unavailable today (USB is utter rubbish in high electrical noise environment) and there is barely replacement either. Not to mention the cost of training blue-collars operators...
Real world is not the web cocoon, even there, switching front-end every 2 years is not acceptable.
disclamer: I know that for a fact as I'm in the process of replacing a CNC control system with modern parts, trust me it's HARD.
Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions
by erik_seaberg on Saturday June 22, 2019 @09:45PM
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If only IE can render a web page, that's not a problem only because IE got old, it was always a problem with bad work on that page, and people were rightly complaining back when it happened.
It's crazy that we can't run old software on vastly more powerful hardware. Imagine if we suddenly couldn't read old books.
More people have to suffer usually if software ends up long lived without being pushed to upgrade when there are newer technologies that improve the experience - it's a heavy price of others you're asking for a lot of times when choices have to be made between compatibility and improvements that often get discounted unreasonably.