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Re:HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silic... by lokar on Sunday December 25, 2022 @02:43PM (#34130459)
I’m not sure it’s fair to cite breaks due to hardware arch changes as evidence that the OS is bad at backwards compatibility. If anything apple has been better then average for compatibility across hw platforms, offering translation
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Re:HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silic... by fragmede on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:21PM (#34130852)
The breaks I mentioned are just whilst on Intel though. The change to Apple Silicon assuredly broke an ton of stuff but I'm not even counting those.
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Re:HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silic... by duped on Sunday December 25, 2022 @08:20PM (#34133485)
DAW developers have historically advised users not to upgrade MacOS versions until it is explicitly supported and professionals in the space resist updates at all costs.
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Re:HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silic... by KerrAvon on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:55PM (#34134059)
This is the only reasonable advice for any OS — DAWs are business-critical and every project is severely time-sensitive and you cannot rely on software vendors at any level of the stack to not break something.
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