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How do you check if you're running any x86 apps?
by prewett 1y ago
How do you check if you're running any x86 apps?
- thijsvandien 1y agoThere's this Silicon app that scans your disk for them: https://github.com/DigiDNA/Silicon https://github.com/DigiDNA/Silicon.
- timsneath 1y agoIn macOS 26, you can see every Rosetta app that has recently run on your machine by going to System Information and then Software / Rosetta Software. It includes the "Fallback Reason" (e.g. if you manually forced the app under Rosetta or if it was an Intel-only binary).
- alwillis 1y agoFWIW, I have zero Rosetta apps on my M1 laptop and I've been a Mac user since the earliest days. I'm super aware of the issues involved--I oversaw the transition from PPC to Intel at a university back in the day, using OG Rosetta. Even then, we had users who would only stop using their PPC apps when you took them from their cold, dead hands.
- brycewray 1y ago1. From the Apple menu, click "About This Mac." 2. In the resulting window, click the "More Info..." button. This will open the System Settings window. 3. Scroll to the bottom of that window and click "System Report." 4. In the left side of the resulting window, under "Software," click "Applications." This will provide a list of installed applications. One of the columns for sorting is "Kind"; all apps that are x86 will be listed with the kind, "Intel."
- latexr 1y agoYou can replace steps 1–3 with “Open /System/Applications/Utilities/System Information.app”.
- 1718627440 1y agoDoes the MacOS shell not split at spaces, or how does that work without quotation?
- latexr 1y agoThat’s not a shell command (otherwise “open” would be lowercase), it’s just an instruction.
- 1718627440 1y agoCan you explain where you type that for non macOS users?
- scottmf 1y agoNo it's an instruction for humans
- 1718627440 1y agoFunny, that didn't occur to me at all. :-/ Maybe that's because I'm used to the FHS and I expected a path starting with /System to be either a path that is interpreted by some command or a description of an UI flow, not a path in the file system. So the thing you would type in the shell is just '/System/Applications/Utilities/System Information.app'? Does the Finder support starting programs by typing the path in the pathbar, like MS Explorer on Windows?
- dmix 1y agoAdobe Acrobat, Steam, and PDF Reader Pro...
- drob518 1y agoTo see what’s running, 1. Go into Activity Monitor 2. From the CPU or memory tab, look at the “Kind” column. It’ll either say “Apple” or “Intel.” If the Kind column isn’t visible, right-click on the column labels and select Kind.