Sam Kusnetz
Active Member
The underlying problem here is that Apple, as an OS/Hardware vendor, is sticking up software developers like y'all, using non-OS add ons to yank you forwards off of old OSs and Hardware *they* don't want to support anymore, so that *you* take the heat from users like me... instead of them.
by no means am i trying to tell you how to feel about it, but i do want to say that i don’t felt “stuck up” by apple whatsoever. by and large i find apple’s OS releases to be centered around genuine improvements (technical problems like the mDNS fiasco notwithstanding.) i think apple gives folks good reason to upgrade, and plenty of space to NOT upgrade if they don’t want to. and i find it actually quite impressive how few macs get left behind with each release… big sur and catalina were both supported on an eight-year range of macs! the 32-bit to 64-bit transition was a notable exception to this, but there are meaningful technical advantages to apple cutting off 32-bit support, advantages shared by apple, developers, and users alike, so i don’t begrudge them that.
again, not telling you how to feel whatsoever. but for me, for us at figure 53, more has been gained by basing v5 on macOS 11 than has been lost, and i don’t feel forced into any corners.
And by "barefoot", I mean, "still able to run, but not supported by the vendor.
i’ve never heard that term before and i quite like it.