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Re:macOS Tahoe by setopt on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:08PM (#45254942)
I got my first MacBook at Catalina, and still miss it. For a while, I downgraded my Intel Mac to Catalina again; I love the aesthetic compared to the newer releases, and it’s fast and snappy.

But the situation now is: No recent apps work on Catalina since it’s considered obsolete (except open-source apps you compile yourself). But Big Sur and higher are ridiculously slow on Intel hardware, to the point where it’s unusable. I now have an otherwise perfectly good 2019 Intel MacBook that has been gathering dust for the past years.

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Re:macOS Tahoe by ryandrake on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:41PM (#45255284)
I’ve got a MacBook and Mac Mini stuck on Monterey (12), and an iMac stuck on Big Sur (11). I’m pretty much dead in the water when it comes to software compatibility, unless I want to put Linux on them. Even homebrew gives me a warning that they’ve stopped support and to expect everything to break. It’s a sad state of affairs.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by heavyset_go on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:59PM (#45257573)
This[1] worked well to upgrade old Macs that were stuck on old versions of macOS for me, if you're not choosing to stay on older versions for other reasons.

[1] https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

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Re:macOS Tahoe by Synaesthesia on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:36AM (#45260453)
OCLP is the solution.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by christophilus on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:00PM (#45255490)
Linux runs fine on my wife’s old (2013) MacBook. It’s more than fine, actually. I have Arch and Niri on there, and it makes a great SNES emulator.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by leakycap on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:38AM (#45272525)
Yes, but 2016-2020 Intel Macs use T1/T2 chips that make installing Arch or Niri a bit more of an aspiration for most people.
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