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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by nojito on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:18AM (#25253015)
This isn't true. Apple donated Macs to Homebrew.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25188225

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by blinkingled on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:23AM (#25253039)
It's better than nothing but clearly it doesn't seem to be a priority for them and the rest of my point still stands - they don't do nearly enough outside of their priorities.
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by my123 on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:28AM (#25253066)
It is a priority. However, the macOS on arm64 port has only been revealed to everyone in June. These things take time.
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by zepto on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:55AM (#25255049)
You do realize homebrew has worked as well on Apple silicon since launch under Rosetta as it ever did on more Intel Macs?

There is essentially no regression, and Apple is donating hardware to enable Homebrew to do the work to extract more performance from the new chips.

What ‘more’ do you think they should do?

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by blinkingled on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:44AM (#25255728)
Contribute patches for all the blockers mentioned towards native homebrew in this post?
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by alwillis on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:02PM (#25256774)
Contribute patches for all the blockers mentioned towards native homebrew in this post?

This is classic of the all or nothing attitude that anti-Apple and anti-Mac people have. Unless Apple does some Herculean task that shows they're worthy, they're shit.

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by my123 on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:08PM (#25256062)
Homebrew does have a policy of not having downstream patches, so that source trees upstream have to have the Apple Silicon fixes.

That makes the process much more complex.

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by zepto on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:29PM (#25256339)
Why should they do that? How is it in their responsibility?

They haven’t impacted homebrew users negatively at all.

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