The Big (Sur) (Upgrade) Questions
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krpalmerAware in advance “32-bit Macintosh applications” wouldn’t run under a future revision of their operating system, I sought out alternatives for some, bought upgrades for others, and just sort of stopped using some neither option seemed possible for. As it turned out, the more or less simply amusing application I’d spent the most time getting running command-line-driven and Python-powered alternatives of a sort for received a substantial upgrade in the end. When system 10.15 did arrive, though, the “never upgrade under any circumstances ever” crowd had bugs to feast on and I lapsed into supposing that while I hadn’t installed systems 10.7 or 10.10 on my computers, I’d gathered the courage to move on to their successors (even if this would keep me from titling a post about upgrading “Catalina Caper.”)
When Apple’s latest World Wide Developers Conference took place as online presentations I counted on summary reports from others as I usually do. It got my attention the system software version number has advanced to “11.0” after two decades, but that just got me remembering all the cautions about installing Mac OS X 10.0 and leaving my G3 All-In-One the way it was. It took buying my first iMac with system 10.1 preinstalled to start booting back and forth, after a while of which I managed to find new versions of a last few types of programs and commit to the new operating system. With the announcements of a fourth processor transition beginning, I’m wondering if personal history will repeat, but also if Dosbox and Wine in particular are processor-dependent.
At the same time, thoughts of “you might have to find an alternative” have come to mind before in the face of the indignation of others. Having to use Windows 10 at work (kept secure by corporate IT) keeps leaving me with reactions between “blah” and “bleah” (for all that I’ve already mentioned making some use of Wine), but I have wondered if there might be some way to customize it with a more robust system font and other visual transformations sufficient to push away merely aesthetic reaction. I suppose, though, this is also linked to idle diversions about “worlds that never were” and what a last few reluctant refugees might have had to do with some hypothetical “Windows Victory Lap.” I do know “Big Sur” could be as big a visual adjustment as leaving system 10.9 “Mavericks” behind, but there I’m already able to contemplate adapting.
When Apple’s latest World Wide Developers Conference took place as online presentations I counted on summary reports from others as I usually do. It got my attention the system software version number has advanced to “11.0” after two decades, but that just got me remembering all the cautions about installing Mac OS X 10.0 and leaving my G3 All-In-One the way it was. It took buying my first iMac with system 10.1 preinstalled to start booting back and forth, after a while of which I managed to find new versions of a last few types of programs and commit to the new operating system. With the announcements of a fourth processor transition beginning, I’m wondering if personal history will repeat, but also if Dosbox and Wine in particular are processor-dependent.
At the same time, thoughts of “you might have to find an alternative” have come to mind before in the face of the indignation of others. Having to use Windows 10 at work (kept secure by corporate IT) keeps leaving me with reactions between “blah” and “bleah” (for all that I’ve already mentioned making some use of Wine), but I have wondered if there might be some way to customize it with a more robust system font and other visual transformations sufficient to push away merely aesthetic reaction. I suppose, though, this is also linked to idle diversions about “worlds that never were” and what a last few reluctant refugees might have had to do with some hypothetical “Windows Victory Lap.” I do know “Big Sur” could be as big a visual adjustment as leaving system 10.9 “Mavericks” behind, but there I’m already able to contemplate adapting.
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