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Look into having separate downloads for Intel Silicon and Apple Silicon

Open GarboMuffin opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

The universal binary is very large. Architecture specific builds would be half the size

GarboMuffin avatar May 30 '22 07:05 GarboMuffin

This could cause confusion for non tech-savvy users. I suggest that you should keep the universal binary, but for those who know what their architecture is, they can download the one for their specific arch.

kccuber-scratch avatar Jun 04 '22 17:06 kccuber-scratch

it's possible this will end up being reverted, yes

GarboMuffin avatar Jun 04 '22 17:06 GarboMuffin

This could cause confusion for non tech-savvy users. I suggest that you should keep the universal binary, but for those who know what their architecture is, they can download the one for their specific arch.

It's easy to find out though (Apple logo > About This Mac, look at processor/chip) Keeping the universal binary is fine though (Windows has some installers that install both x86 and x64 specific versions)

Dhuls-Scratch avatar Jun 04 '22 17:06 Dhuls-Scratch

~~It's probably possible for the website to detect the system's CPU architecture and prioritize the correct download link~~ doesn't seem like it

GarboMuffin avatar Jun 05 '22 19:06 GarboMuffin

let's ponder this for one more major release

GarboMuffin avatar Jun 11 '22 23:06 GarboMuffin

With the new website layout, I guess we can have a Universal download at the very top for everyone, and if they scroll down we can show Apple Silicon and Intel Silicon options. I'm not sure if having 3 separate downloads for macOS is really a good idea though

GarboMuffin avatar Jan 14 '23 20:01 GarboMuffin