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Love to see upgrades with a negative net size lmao. Software should get more optimized with time, not more bloated. Oop, just got the gnome console popup notification saying that my install command finished running, sweet -- it took as long as making this post
Might happen again one day if they decide to drop x86 support. Which they likely will.
in maybe 30 years, lol
idk, apple is very trigger-happy when it comes to discontinuing things (outside of the iphones, strangely.) i think by 2030 we will be long gone from apple x86 machines.
Well they haven't made a single x86 machine in what, 4 or 5 years?
The 2024 version of MacOS doesn't support anything older than 2017 and for most models it's more like 2018-2020
I'd say in 2-3 years they'll drop support for all x86 machines, at which point first party binaries can stop shipping with x86 code. Then eventually, several years later, they'll drop support for x86 emulation via Rosetta 2, so that's another thing they can drop from the OS. And once xcode stops giving you those fat dual-arch binaries, other software will also take a bit less space.