Comment on Qualcomm's Powerful PC Chip Is Worse for AMD Than for Intel
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months agoApple said EVERYBODY MAKE ARM APPS NOW
Uh, no. What they did is make sure x86 software still works perfectly. And not just Mac software - you can run x86 Linux server software on a Mac with Docker, and you can run DirectX 12 x86 PC games on a Mac with WINE. Those third party projects didn’t do it on their own, Apple made extensive contributions to those projects.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Only real issues that I’ve seen lately are upstream with QEMU, which will probably be sorted soon, if they’re not already. I’m absolutely amazed at how well they implemented the x86_64 compatibility.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If found that a few open source apps that are stubbornly Intel only binaries can be compiled as universal apps in Xcode. For example OpenEmu.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Any issues running those with Rosetta? I run x86 VMs regularly without issue.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It was about 50/50, but fortunately everything that didn’t work had upgrades to universal or Apple silicon available. I imagine things were rougher for the early adopters. What surprised me the most was being able to run Windows Steam via Whisky with very little drama.