2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test

Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:14PM (#25126319)

Well... That's why I have a ThinkPad, that is certified on Linux. (So your prejudice is dated)

I'm literally trying to figure out how to install Python 3.6 alongside 3.9 in MacOSX .... right now, and it's not a one line command.

So... No. It has massive issues with developer friendliness. New OSX stalls with bluetooth mice and randomly locks my keyboard(MBP 2020). The only thing I can commend OSX on - battery life on a MacBook and nothing else

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by rootusrootus on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:58PM (#25127065)

> install Python 3.6 alongside 3.9 in MacOSX .... right now, and it's not a one line command

To be fair, that's not easy on any OS (well, maybe Windows). Certainly on CentOS it is a chore to get two versions of Python installed simultaneously.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:14PM (#25127337)

I'm on Ubuntu - it's not as mindbogglingly hard as on MacOSX.

Unsupported versions - harder, but still a few commands...

Supported versions? sudo apt install python-3.6 and done.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by wenc on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:27PM (#25128450)

Python: another way to do this is to install Anaconda and then spin up virtual environments with specific Python versions.

  conda create -n myenv python=3.6

Having multiple versions of system Pythons can be complicated. I've learned not to touch the system Python.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by heavyset_go on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:55PM (#25130446)

pyenv[1] might help you out in this department. It's also cross-platform.

[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

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