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> Users had about ten years of warning before 32-bit went away. Citation needed. I remember 32 bit being deprecated just 12 months before its support removal a
by terramex 6y ago
> Users had about ten years of warning before 32-bit went away.
Citation needed. I remember 32 bit being deprecated just 12 months before its support removal and there were no signs earlier. I just had to recompile my apps to x64, but some 3rd party tools I use never got an update and my 2013 Macbook will stay on Mojave forever.
- Bud 6y ago64-bit apps debuted something like 12 years ago on the Mac. The writing has thus been on the wall for circa a decade, as I said. You figured 32-bit would be supported for what, 20 years? 30?
- terramex 6y ago> The writing has thus been on the wall for circa a decade, as I said. So do you say that there is writing on the wall for removing 32-bit support in Windows and Linux too? I certainly don't. If Apple deprecated 32-bit while introducing x64 then the writing would be on the wall but they kept supporting and updating 32-bit. > You figured 32-bit would be supported for what, 20 years? 30? At least one hardware generation lifetime from moment of deprecation (5 years would be bad, 10 would be great). There were 32-bit AU plugins still being sold in 2018 and some of them never got an update. KORG never updated some of their synth control apps for synthesisers that are still on sale - they just updated docs and wrote that macOS is not supported anymore.
- lsiebert 6y agoI saw someone post on a non work slack about their steam library, where they had a bunch of games that previously ran on mac, being decimated, and they meant decimated literally by catalina. 90% of their games were 32 bit.
- chongli 6y agoThe good news for steam users is that you don’t have to purchase the game separately for each platform. The decimated users can build their own Windows gaming PC and easily regain access to all of their old games. I doubt they had any Mac-exclusive games that also happened to be 32-bit only. Do such games even exist? Maybe.
- joncampbelldev 6y agoFunnily enough that is the inverse of the historical meaning of decimated (to destroy 10% of something).
- lsiebert 6y agoGood to know, thanks.
- im3w1l 6y agoSounds like the writing is on the wall for 32bit linux but you still have some time. https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-for-ubuntu-19-10-and-20-04-lts https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-fo...