| 20 Feb 2026 |
 raitobezarius | fyi, nixpkgs cache will also start dropping x86_64-darwin soonish | 21:59:36 |
| raitobezarius | cc emily who knows better the timeline than me | 21:59:44 |
 shoe | long as its around for at least another year i'm good :p i was going to buy a new laptop but i decided to wait a little longer | 22:00:33 |
 leona | After 26.05 branchoff, I.e. the full 26.05 support cycle still supports it, but not 26.11 | 22:00:35 |
| raitobezarius | so this basically means that in Oct 2026, Intel macOS is no more in the cache | 22:00:56 |
| raitobezarius | for stable releases | 22:01:02 |
| raitobezarius | and no more in May 2026 for unstable | 22:01:07 |
| raitobezarius | * and no more in June 2026 for unstable | 22:01:11 |
| leona | No, End of December? | 22:01:20 |
| leona | * No, End of December 2026? | 22:01:23 |
| raitobezarius | true | 22:01:32 |
| raitobezarius | * so this basically means that in Dec. 2026, Intel macOS is no more in the cache | 22:01:44 |
 emily | more to the point, we already do not support Monterey in Nixpkgs | 22:01:44 |
| emily | macOS 14 is our baseline requirement | 22:01:58 |
| emily | (it may work, but YMMV) | 22:02:04 |
| emily | it's out of security support from Apple fwiw | 22:02:20 |
| emily | maybe consider OCLP if your hardware doesn't natively support newer releases | 22:02:32 |
| shoe | my hardware supports up to macos 14 but 'supporting' and 'being usable' are two different things | 22:02:58 |
| shoe | its a 2019 air | 22:03:08 |
| shoe | i've been slumming it out with sonoma but atp i'm fed up. i tried ventura first but that doesn't really offer an improvement. meanwhile monterey is butter | 22:04:18 |
| raitobezarius | anyway, welcome at Lix, just wanted to set expectations straight :) | 22:09:04 |
| emily | the Intel Mac experience is pretty miserable at this point | 22:13:12 |
| shoe | complete horses*** luck buying this ewaste right before apple silicon | 22:13:53 |
| shoe | thankfully i have a desktop and a work laptop, i couldn't imagine this being my primary system like it was in college | 22:14:26 |
| raitobezarius | i wonder if the linux port experience can salvage Intel Macs these days, T2 for Linux IIRC? | 22:14:46 |
| shoe | nope | 22:14:51 |
| shoe | went there first | 22:14:55 |
| shoe | u close the lid u have to force restart lmao | 22:15:02 |
| raitobezarius | I don't know well the Mac ecosystem, so I believe you | 22:15:05 |
| shoe changed their display name from Shurjo to shoe. | 22:48:12 |
