Hey Friends,

Any other Mac OS users here? Anyone excitied about Big Sur or planning on holding off? I know a lot of changes were made to accommodate the new ARM processors in Big Sur, making me thing that for the first time I might hold off































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































on the upgrade to see how it goes for others.

My primary platform is Mac OS Catalina, and I run Parallels for various linux containers. My Synchronet BBS is running in Parallels on Ubuntu. I thought about running it in native MacOS, which is supposedly possible but I wanted to isolate it somewhat and a container seemed like a good way to do that.

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On 24 Oct 2020, Bob Roberts said the following...

Hey Friends,

Welcome to the network, Bob! =)

Any other Mac OS users here? Anyone excitied about Big Sur or planning
on holding off? I know a lot of changes were made to accommodate the
new ARM processors in Big Sur, making me thing that for the first time I might hold off on the upgrade to see how it goes for others.

I have a Macbook Pro late 2012 with Mojave I think, I hardly use it now, but I used to use it as my daily driver not too long ago. I don't know anything about Big Sur, what's new in it?

My primary platform is Mac OS Catalina, and I run Parallels for various linux containers. My Synchronet BBS is running in Parallels on Ubuntu.
I thought about running it in native MacOS, which is supposedly possible but I wanted to isolate it somewhat and a container seemed like a good
way to do that.

Containers are pretty rad on the whole, have you used Docker at all? I know that we have somewhat of a Docker expert amongst us in Deon, I installed Parallels once for some people I used to work for so they could get some Windows apps working on their Macbooks, but aside from that I don't think
I've ever used it.

I really enjoy how Apple have presented the OSes and especially how switching workspaces is with the trackpad gestures.

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Re: MacOS USers?
By: Bob Roberts to All on Sat Oct 24 2020 10:58 am

Hey Bob,

Any other Mac OS users here? Anyone excitied about Big Sur or planning on

holding off? I know a lot of changes were made to

accommodate the new ARM processors in Big Sur, making me thing that for

the first time I might hold off on the upgrade to see how it

goes for others.

I'm a Mac user (and fan) - and do all my dev work on either my imac or macbook.






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































When BugSur is out, I'll ultimately update - probably sooner rather than later as well...

My primary platform is Mac OS Catalina, and I run Parallels for various

linux containers. My Synchronet BBS is running in Parallels

on Ubuntu. I thought about running it in native MacOS, which is

supposedly possible but I wanted to isolate it somewhat and a

container seemed like a good way to do that.

You could run Synchronet in docker on the MAC - which is what I do when I'm testing stuff. It works well, but probably not as fast as in Parallels because of the filesystem access.

I havent used Parallels ever - I'm a VMware guy as well - although I dont seem to use VM that much anymore on the Mac (since docker came so easy to use).

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Re: Re: MacOS USers?
By: MeaTLoTioN to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 2020 09:06 pm

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Re: Re: MacOS USers?
By: MeaTLoTioN to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 2020 09:06 pm

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So this message came through all messed up for me - and this is all I could quote.

You really should get off that buggy Mystic, it seems to be getting worse... :P

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Re: MacOS USers?
By: deon to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 2020 01:03 pm

I havent used Parallels ever - I'm a VMware guy as well - although I dont seem to use VM that much anymore on the Mac (since docker came so easy to use).

For Docker on Mac are you using Docker Desktop? I haven't played with it yet but it's probably something I should checkout.

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Re: Re: MacOS USers?
By: MeaTLoTioN to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 2020 09:06 pm

I have a Macbook Pro late 2012 with Mojave I think, I hardly use it now, but I used to use it as my daily driver not too long ago. I don't know anything about Big Sur, what's new in it?

Big Sur is a big update to Mac OS mainly because it includes support for their new ARM powered custom Apple Silicon (to replace Intel CPUs). It also has some






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































big UI updates that make pretty big changes to the look and feel. Apple even bumped the version finally, so it's Mac OS 11 instead of Mac OS X.

Thats basically why I'm thinking of holding off. I usually update on day 0 of any Mac OS release because I'm a fanboi but a lot of the beta testers are complaining about issues....

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Re: Re: MacOS USers?
By: deon to MeaTLoTioN on Sun Oct 25 2020 01:05 pm

You really should get off that buggy Mystic, it seems to be getting worse... :P

Yeah it cut off his message after the second quote block.

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Re: MacOS USers?
By: Bob Roberts to deon on Sat Oct 24 2020 10:30 pm

For Docker on Mac are you using Docker Desktop? I haven't played with it

yet but it's probably something I should checkout.

Yup... I've been using it for a couple of years now. Works well..

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Re: MacOS USers?
By: deon to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 2020 04:59 pm

Yup... I've been using it for a couple of years now. Works well..

I'll check it out. Probably a marketable skill for the resume anyways. :-)

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Bob Roberts wrote to All <=-

Hey Friends,

Any other Mac OS users here? Anyone excitied about Big Sur or planning
on holding off? I know a lot of changes were made to accommodate the
new ARM processors in Big Sur, making me thing that for the first time
I might hold off

Hey - I am :-)

We use them at work, and I love it! And yes, I updated to Big Sur as soon
as it was availabe.

on the upgrade to see how it goes for others.

My primary platform is Mac OS Catalina, and I run Parallels for various linux containers. My Synchronet BBS is running in Parallels on Ubuntu.
I thought about running it in native MacOS, which is supposedly
possible but I wanted to isolate it somewhat and a container seemed
like a good way to do that.

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|07

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Re: Re: MacOS USers?
By: Jimmy Anderson to Bob Roberts on Mon Feb 22 2021 09:44 am

Any other Mac OS users here? Anyone excitied about Big Sur or
planning on holding off? I know a lot of changes were made to
accommodate the new ARM processors in Big Sur, making me thing that
for the first time I might hold off

We use them at work, and I love it! And yes, I updated to Big Sur as soon as it was availabe.

I did finally upgrade to Big Sur 2 weeks ago, when 11.2 came out. No problems at all with the upgrade, which took about an hour. Everything seems fine so far. Even all my shell customizations survived... usually a major OS update wipes them all out.... so that was cool.

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Bob Roberts wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

I did finally upgrade to Big Sur 2 weeks ago, when 11.2 came out. No problems at all with the upgrade, which took about an hour. Everything seems fine so far. Even all my shell customizations survived...
usually a major OS update wipes them all out.... so that was cool.

Cool! I've been pleased with it...






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