I tried running a 2nd instance of Roblox simultaneously on macos 15 with another account but this shows up, if my mac can handle it then why can’t it just let me do it? If I have two copies of an app like Roblox in separate User/Applications folders, macos moves them to the /Applications/ folder.
Sometimes it won’t run apps claiming to be corrupted, so I then have to do sudo xattr -cr /Applications/someapp.app in the terminal and they run perfectly fine. It always nags me if I download apps from anywhere but mac app store. Some of these messages can only be gotten rid of by disabling system integrity protection, but then macos blocks you from running MAS apps due to having “permissive security”.
I don’t daily drive macOS anymore, I switched to Linux on my M1 mac where I can do whatever the hell I want.
Well, you won’t have a great time trying to run Roblox on Linux either.
half the reason to use linux
Sober works
I dont think it has a native arm version
Now you can enjoy not playing roblox at all on linux :/
was there a recent issue? i DEFINITELY had a working roblox launcher back before i distro-swapped this last time. it MIGHT’VE been through lutris? i can’t remember specifically now :/
Yup
What you’re refering to is (was) probably Grapejuice, which worked great until roblox said “nope” and there it lies dead now.
yeah, fuck, i remember the icon. that’s the one :/
The most tragic thing about MacOS is, it’s almost good
I don’t like Apple, but I like Macs. Obviously macos is better than Windows, but it’s also Linux without the time spent figuring out why something isn’t working.
I say that as someone who’s had a go with Linux a lot over the years, but for a daily work machine I need the reliability.
They can piss off with their iClouds and iOS stuff though.
I think this is only conditionally true… A good AMD based system on say Fedora with a GPU that’s at least a year old … you really won’t have much of a problem on Linux in my experience or much to fix.
How to take unix and make it worst.
My dislike for MacOS started with this. I had a WordPerfect document, and WordPerfect, but it wouldn’t let me open it because it insisted that it wasn’t a WordPerfect document. And despite the fact that I could open it in WordPerfect on other computers.
It’s always been this “I know better than you, idiot” mentality that drove me away. I went back, briefly, when businesses started letting employees request MacBooks instead of Windows - given those two options, OSX is preferable. Plus, it was Darwin by then, and the important UI - the shell - was essentially POSIX.
I well always resent MacOS having the temerity to think it knew better than me, especially in cases when it was wrong but you just could not force it to do something.
While the app running permissions of macOS have become extremely obnoxious, you don’t need to disable system integrity protection. After macOS refuses to open an application, open system preferences -> security and there will be a button that says „open app anyway“, which you then confirm via password or fingerprint.
My memory is probably hazy (it’s been a while since I used macOS) or it might’ve been removed but I recall that you were able to hold a key on the keyboard to bypass it as well. You’d have to right click the application, then hold down the key, and while holding it down click “Open”.
Said key I believe was the “option” key
It’s an extra step in macOS 15. You need to go into System Settings now.
Used to just be able to use the contextual menu to open it and get an approval dialog.
Ah gotcha, that’s a bit unfortunate - good to know though!
How’s Linux running on ARM for you, and what distribution?
Is there more than 1?
There are several different distro’s built on asahi IIRC, asahi is more of a Mac platform for distro’s than a distro itself if I understand the project correctly.
Correct, from the Asahi Linux website:
Is this a Linux distribution?
Asahi Linux is an overall project to develop support for these Macs. The majority of the work resides in hardware support, drivers, and tools, and it will be upstreamed to the relevant projects. Our flagship distro is Fedora Asahi Remix, which is a collaboration between Asahi Linux and the Fedora Project, and serves as both a polished end-user distribution and a reference for other distributions who wish to incorporate our work.
Other distributions are already working on implementing support for these platforms, and we expect to have more options officially available in the future. Check out our Alternative Distros page for a list of ongoing distro integration projects.
I only know this because I’ve been seriously looking into running Linux on my M2 MacBook Air and trying to peel myself out of the Apple ecosystem but found there isn’t many options right now where everything works – especially TouchID. I’m not new to Linux, I just needed dependability and stability that I always seemed to mess up in my Linux days in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and got sick of Windows.
I have definitely looked into Asahi awhile ago, and knew that was the big one. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that’s the only one, but didn’t know if maybe there were more.
Asahi is not only a distribution but a modified kernel which in theory can be added to nearly any Linux distribution
I’ve never HAD to turn off system integrity for any reason, and I download all sorts of dodgy software from disreputable authors. It’s annoying as heck to micromanage permissions for non-MAS apps but I don’t think disabling integrity is worth it
i remember on OSX elcapitan I just had to duplicate and rename an app to launch it twice and run it in parallel. But maybe you can’t do it anymore ?
You have made the right choice!
