Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by geerlingguy on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:01PM (#23604397)

I found the same problem when I tried running off Pi OS 64-bit for a day—almost every app that _did_ have a Linux binary available was only able to run under x86_64, not on arm64... More here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook...

Zoom, Bluejeans, Dropbox, pretty much all the popular apps I used where I could find a Linux version for my Dell laptop, I couldn't find a way (though got close at least, with Dropbox) to run them on an ARM64 CPU.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ThatPlayer on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:56PM (#23606540)

Have you tried box86? https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 Let's you run x86 (not x86_64 though) programs on ARM Linux. It does a neat thing where system library calls are converted to ARM system library calls rather than using x86 ones for better performance.

Lots of games work fine with it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4aGNqZ724

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by the-dude on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:26PM (#23606057)

For Dropbox, you could quite trivially get by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by geerlingguy on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:34PM (#23609070)

Rclone is what I ended up using and it worked decently well.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by anthk on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:38PM (#23605213)

Dropbox could run relatively well with qemu user mode.

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