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| Windows is a bit of a special case, because it probably runs Semplice just fine… but I have no means of knowing that for sure. Windows 10 reached end of Microsoft's official support back in October 2025, so all the hardware I have running Semplice on Windows 10 is now no longer representative of anything supported by the operating system's own manufacturer. Windows 11 is, of course, fully supported by Microsoft -but I literally have no hardware that is officially supported for running it. I can hack Windows 11 onto a bunch of spare hardware, but it will be an unsupported and unrepresentative platform. The principle, however, is that if you get Windows running the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) then you can install one of the supported distros on that (for example, Ubuntu or Fedora) and Semplice will run perfectly well in that environment (except for CD ripping functionality, which requires direct access to the relevant hardware). So, it's not that Semplice won't run on Windows: it's just that I now expend zero development effort proving it does so. Any issues arising as you try to run it are therefore really yours to resolve. I will certainly offer advice and help if asked, but it will be merely on a 'best efforts' basis. In the meantime, I have written installation instructions for Windows 11 here. | Windows is a bit of a special case, because it probably runs Semplice just fine… but I have no means of knowing that for sure. Windows 10 reached end of Microsoft's official support back in October 2025, so all the hardware I have running Semplice on Windows 10 is now no longer representative of anything supported by the operating system's own manufacturer. Windows 11 is, of course, fully supported by Microsoft -but I literally have no hardware that is officially supported for running it. I can hack Windows 11 onto a bunch of spare hardware, but it will be an unsupported and unrepresentative platform. The principle, however, is that if you get Windows running the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) then you can install one of the supported distros on that (for example, Ubuntu or Fedora) and Semplice will run perfectly well in that environment (except for CD ripping functionality, which requires direct access to the relevant hardware). So, it's not that Semplice won't run on Windows: it's just that I now expend zero development effort proving it does so. Any issues arising as you try to run it are therefore really yours to resolve. I will certainly offer advice and help if asked, but it will be merely on a 'best efforts' basis. In the meantime, I have written installation instructions for Windows 11 here. |
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| Semplice from Version 2.12 and up //does// run on Apple macOS: I use Monterey on a 2015 iMac as a daily driver and so can confirm it works (apart from the CD ripping functionality). You also have to do quite a bit of installation work yourself ahead of time (such as installing Homebrew or Macports, a newer version of Bash and the wget utility): this stuff is taken care of automatically when running on Linux, but on Mac, you have to do it manually. Semplice on Apple remains a Tier 4 installation, however, with little or no support, because I don't know enough about macOS to be sure that my installation advice and techniques are in any way sensible. I also don't own Apple Silicon iMacs or Mac Minis: my Apple hardware is all second-hand and as old as the hills, resolutely using Intel CPUs: who knows if my installation process even begins to work on Apple Silicon? Without any appropriate hardware to hand (and no prospect of getting it any time soon), it would be foolish to say I can meaningfully support that platform. I certainly know it works for real with my particular setup, which I've happily documented, but as a Tier 4 platform, it's very much: give it a go and see how you get on. | Semplice from Version 2.12 and up //does// run on Apple macOS: I use Monterey on a 2015 iMac as a daily driver and so can confirm it works, including CD ripping functionality. AccurateRip checking of rips does //not// work, however. Automatic detection of the correct read offset for your optical drive also doesn't work //if// that drive is an Apple SuperDrive; it works fine with non-Apple drives, however. You also have to do quite a bit of installation work yourself ahead of time (such as installing Homebrew or Macports, a newer version of Bash and the wget utility): this stuff is taken care of automatically when running on Linux, but on Mac, you have to do it manually. Semplice on Apple remains a Tier 4 installation, however, with little or no support, because I don't know enough about macOS to be sure that my installation advice and techniques are in any way sensible. I also don't own Apple Silicon iMacs or Mac Minis: my Apple hardware is all second-hand and as old as the hills, resolutely using Intel CPUs: who knows if my installation process even begins to work on Apple Silicon? Without any appropriate hardware to hand (and no prospect of getting it any time soon), it would be foolish to say I can meaningfully support that platform. I certainly know it works for real with my particular setup, which I've happily documented, but as a Tier 4 platform, it's very much: give it a go and see how you get on. |
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| Semplice definitely does __not__ work on the Solus Linux distro. | Semplice definitely does __not__ work on the Solus Linux distro. |