Earthquake in Lincolnshire :-)

It's finally happened, though I think I swore for about 12 years that it never would: I've only gone and bought an iMac! I got the 10-core green machine you see at the left: delivery Thursday, assuming we all survive the torrential rain that is threatening to drown all of us in the UK right now! I've been using my old 2015 iMac for a couple of months now and though I still find the operating system quirky as hell, it's acceptable… and I still get to use all the open source software I got familiar with on Linux. It is, however, the first time I've changed operating systems since about 2010 (when I switched full-time from Windows to Linux, of assorted distro flavours), which is still a bit of a shock to the system! I've even gone and bought an old iPhone 12 (delivery tomorrow!): if one is going to jump down the rabbit hole, one might as well do it with both feet!

I don't know whether it's sensible or not, but there it is: and it makes rather a difference to my software developments! Giocoso and Semplice will become Tier 1 support on macOS now, because I'll finally have an Apple Silicon iMac and a current OS to run things on, no Open Core Legacy Patcher required. Updates to the documentation for Giocoso and Semplice will come in due course.

I'm not sure about Niente: I don't run that on my desktop and it's not really suitable for running on an interactive desktop in any case. It's meant to chug away in the background, doing quite a lot of disk I/O and CPU computations: that's the sort of thing best suited for servers and Apple don't have a server product! We'll see; but it's certainly not a priority.

Anyway: the world's most passionate user of the command line interface is now a confirmed Mac-ite. Wish me luck!