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    7 months ago

    god forbid you ever want to run any 32 bit programs. you can’t even play the orange box games anymore

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      7 months ago

      They could’ve easily continue going the Catalina way (you can allow 32-bit programs to run after a warning if upgraded from an older OS), but they didn’t. I don’t understand why they forced 64-bit on Big Sur, it breaks so many old, non-updated apps and they know that.

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        7 months ago

        they have a history of Thinking Differently about backwards compatibility. it’s just like the headphone jack all over again