Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
by tailspin2019 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:47PM
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Sounds a bit painful! Useful to hear your experiences. Things will hopefully continue to improve over time.
I do already have a NUC running Docker and had thought about using that if needed when I move to an M1 so it’s interesting you’ve had the same idea.
I use homebrew, and a number of stuff is still on x86 only, needing to run in a Rosetta terminal. My ruby install is one of these.
For php, php-brew couldn’t build the version I need till the end, so I bailed out of it and moved it to docker. Same for mysql 5 (upper versions seem to be available for the M1).
That was right when Hashicorp announced the Desktop pricing change, and I didn’t know what my org would do so I started checking the other options. Except docker-machine/engine is supported independently only on Intel, M1 chips need docker desktop to run containers (at least that’s my take, I’d love to be wrong).
Basically right now my local dev relies on Rosetta and docker, and I seriously think about buying an intel NUC as a side machine where I’d remote into.