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Instal the last version for ipod QEMU1/29/2024 And each of the last two updates-the “trash can” Mac Pro in 2013 and the reforged “cheese grater” version from 2019-have reflected a total shift in design and strategy. It has been a very long time since the Mac Pro was updated on anything close to a predictable cadence, especially if you don’t count partial refreshes like the 2012 Mac Pro tower or the addition of new GPU options to the 2019 model. Waiting for news in the face of uncertainty isn’t new to Mac Pro holdouts it has been a constant for the last decade-plus. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple continues to work on a new version of the Mac Pro, alongside other as-yet-unreplaced Intel Macs like the higher-end Mac mini and the 27-inch iMac, but that a planned “M2 Extreme” chip that would have powered the Apple Silicon Mac Pro has “likely” been canceled. The Mac Pro is one of the few remaining Intel Macs with no Apple Silicon replacement ready to go, even though we’re a little past the two-year deadline that CEO Tim Cook originally set for the transition in summer 2020 (and to be fair, it has been a hard-to-predict couple of years). Since NixOS seems to be popping up in comments all over the web, I’m trying to keep an eye on it and understand what, exactly, it offers over competing products. I’m just not entirely sure if it’s of any value to most regular desktop Linux users, or if it is almost exclusively aimed at developers. NixOS seems incredibly cool, but at the same time, it also seems obtuse and complex, and like any Linux system, it has its share of problems, too. What you’ll read in the rest of this post is the result of our conversations. So I did what I usually do when I suspect there’s a better way of doing something in Nix land and pinged Mic92. I didn’t now exactly what that better way looked like just yet, but I could feel in my bones that it existed. But I wasn’t just content with firing up the NixOS installer and getting to work. And like with any new piece of hardware I get these days, my first instinct was to put NixOS on it. This week I received a new 12th Gen Intel laptop from Framework. The most popular operating system in the world by a huge margin, and yet, it still gets ridiculed by users of platforms that still have to manually install drivers and update applications by hand while getting spied on left, right, and centre. I’m too tired to dig up all important milestones and dates, or references, but here’s highlights of the timeline as I have experienced it (years may be a little off). Over time, the goal posts of success keep being moved by the naysayers. It’s the end of a long year for me, and I though I’d let off some steam myself. I’m not claiming to be targeted at that, but I’ve been around and active for long enough that things accumulate. A lot more people have, of course, pontificated along those lines in public, and not directed it at me. Over the years there’s been many people telling me directly that Linux is silly or wrong or imperfect, or that free and open source software is foolish or pointless. I’ve been part of the Linux community since before Linux was called Linux. A rant about “year of Linux on the desktop” from a tired old man.
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