Comment by watermelon0

1 month ago

Are you implying that a 6 year old hardware is as good as a paperweight? Outside of the Apple fairyland this is just bonkers.

I'm not blaming the Homebrew project/developers here, but the fact that many people are okay with deprecating perfectly fine hardware.

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nebezb  1 month ago

No, he’s asking what you think a reasonable support timeline is. An open source project supporting hardware 6 years old is pretty awesome.

  • ryandrake  1 month ago

    6 years is really not a long time at all. You can probably find heaps of open source software out there that compiles and runs perfectly on 20 year old PCs. It's not like the maintainer has to do much to retain support--they just have to not make the software dependent on new operating systems.

    Bits don't rot.

    • nebezb  1 month ago

      Bits certainly don’t rot and you’re welcome to stay on the latest stable version that runs on your architecture.

      And if you want new bits with the new features, those aren’t the same bits and that work isn’t free.

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    • richwater  1 month ago

      How many of those 20 year old projects had to go through an architecture change that the manufacturer no longs supports? Come on man be reasonable.

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  • yjftsjthsd-h  1 month ago

    NixOS is an open source project that runs great on my 2013 Dell laptop. I think the real point of distinction is that brew depends on Apple's OS and SDK, which somewhat ties their hands, while other OSs don't.

  • hn_throw2025  1 month ago

    I managed to sell my battered old 32-bit Thinkpad on eBay last year. I couldn’t put Trixie on it, but Bookworm installed fine.

rplnt  1 month ago

There's been a huge step up in basically everything going from intel to apple silicon. It's not a comparable hardware in any sense, and as such, it really does feel like it became a paperweight? I know I never wanted to see an intel macbook ever again the moment I tried M1. It's maybe hard to comprehend how different it is if you haven't used both. And at the same time I'm happy with my x86 desktop for 10+ years. Only thing that really improved in that span was storage.

So I wouldn't say this applies globally to apple users/products, but the post-intel era is a special case. If nothing else, they are helping the environment by not feeding that (literally) hot garbage with more electricity.