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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by threeseed on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:48PM (#38103883)
Because having worked at Apple and seen Radar.

The issue has never been finding the bugs. It's having the capacity to fix the bugs.

And when you are this early in the OS release cycle (we are only at 14.1) there are inevitably a lot of P1 issues that limited resources are competing to fix.

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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:24PM (#38104561)
But I have to imagine an issue that renders Macs unbootable would have been considered blocking, had Apple known about it.
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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by threeseed on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:49PM (#38104988)
It's an edge case with a workaround. P2 and definitely not enough to prevent a release.

Only 14/16-inch models where users have explicitly disable ProMotion and are desperate to boot into the RecoveryOS.

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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:59PM (#38105135)
My understanding was that if you disable ProMotion you can become unable to boot into your main OS.
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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by MichaelZuo on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:17PM (#38108581)
Like the other user said, this bug effects a much larger set of customers.

To ship this severity of bug in an X.6 release too is definitely very eyebrow raising.

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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by callalex on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:34PM (#38107387)
Who/what is limiting those resources? It certainly isn’t a lack of US Dollars. Is it executives on the financial team requiring a never ending increase in profit margins even though the margins from two years ago were also infinitely sustaining?
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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by SamuelAdams on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:15PM (#38107706)
Most likely people. As large as Apple is, there’s only so many programmers writing code. If you’ve ever read The Mythical Man Month, you know that throwing more programmers at a project does not nessesarily make it go faster.
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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by fomine3 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:55PM (#38108441)
QA is somewhat scalable than development. More test to find more bugs.
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Re:Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS... by troupo on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:48PM (#38108786)
> And when you are this early in the OS release cycle (we are only at 14.1)

I hope this was a joke :)

The worst thing that Apple did to themselves is force everything and everyone into a yearly release cycle

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