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I've pretty much stopped using Signal since they said they're not going to port it to M1. Probably would have done this otherwise.
by drcongo 5y ago
I've pretty much stopped using Signal since they said they're not going to port it to M1. Probably would have done this otherwise.
- vageli 5y agoSignal runs without issue on my M1 Macbook Air.
- ArchOversight 5y agoIt runs under Rosetta 2. Not natively.
- vinay427 5y agoI assume they mean native ARM support rather than depending on Rosetta 2, which from what I can tell [1] is still the case. [1] https://doesitarm.com/app/signal/ https://doesitarm.com/app/signal/
- bilal4hmed 5y agoI also think it was more about ARM.....I dont like using it since it wont work on my ARM Chromebook, there are also the huge battery drain issues on Android and mediocre video/audio calling
- GekkePrutser 5y agoWell they'll have to port it eventually. Rosetta isn't going to be around forever.
- drcongo 5y agoI didn't say it doesn't run, and thanks for the ill-informed downvote.
- mdaniel 5y agoWhile that certainly squares with my mental model, do you happen to have a link to that decision?
- drcongo 5y agoSorry, yes. There's multiple sources, but a lot of it collected here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461 They keep shutting down tickets about it, refuse to review a PR that implemented it for them, and won't even tick the box on the Signal iPad app that would make it available on M1 Macs (where side-loaders have already confirmed for them that it works perfectly. 90% of my Signal usage was on desktop, so this has left such a bad taste that I'd rather use almost anything else now.
- wlesieutre 5y ago> won't even tick the box on the Signal iPad app that would make it available on M1 Macs Isn’t that box ticked by default? I think what Signal has done is gone in and deliberately unticked it to make you use the Intel Mac app in Rosetta rather than the iPad app. Edit: yup > After you sign the updated developer agreement, the App Store automatically makes compatible iOS apps available to users of a Mac with Apple silicon. However, if you’re already planning to ship a macOS version of your app, or if your app doesn’t make sense on the Mac, you can change your app’s availability in App Store Connect.
- drcongo 5y agoWow. That's even more user-hostile then.
- wlesieutre 5y agoI can see it making sense if you're a cross platform shop and a high quality Mac app is something that you're prioritizing. You might not want people to inadvertently happen on an iPad app that will run on the Mac but is worse than the Mac app. But it doesn't sound like Mac is a big priority here, so who knows why they would do that.
- willk 5y ago> tick the box on the Signal iPad app that would make it available on M1 Macs This annoys me the most. I don't see the downside of them enabling it. It would bring the Mac client into feature parity with the IOS client and eventually reduce complexity. It seems like it would be an easy win-win.
- tapoxi 5y agoI really don't get their hostility to low hanging fruit. They continue to only publish a Debian package, if you're on any other distribution you need to use a community built Flatpak. They could improve the security of everyone by just building the same Flatpak themselves!
- headhasthoughts 5y agoThe Signal xbps package works fine, and Flatpaks are security hell.