Ventura graphics Mac
Chris Menzel
chris.menzel at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 17:20:47 UTC 2023
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:13 PM Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam at lisse.na> wrote:
> Please don't argue unnecessary points,
Well, our judgments differ as to relevance. :-)
Finding an ARM Linux is an issue for itself, as is installing it,
> finding a recent version of LaTeX for it and keep this all current.
>
I'm afraid this is just misinformation on every point. There are ARM
versions of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Kali, among others, and installing
any of them under Parallels is a complete no-brainer — basically point and
click, as Parallels offers them to the user in their installation
assistant. And every distro has an update daemon that keeps the user
completely current (and this is of course also easily done manually with a
simple terminal command or two). The Kali maintainers, in particular,
are really on the ball; the LyX package was updated to 2.3.7 almost
immediately after the release. And as for keeping TeX/LaTeX up to date,
here is the version output for pdflatex on my just-now updated version of
MacTeX (with some boilerplate removed):
$ pdftex --version
pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (TeX Live 2022)
kpathsea version 6.3.4
Compiled with libpng 1.6.37; using libpng 1.6.37
Compiled with zlib 1.2.11; using zlib 1.2.11
Compiled with xpdf version 4.03
And here is the output of the same command under my just-now updated
version of Kali Linux:
$ pdftex --version
pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (TeX Live 2022/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.3.4
Compiled with libpng 1.6.39; using libpng 1.6.39
Compiled with zlib 1.2.13; using zlib 1.2.13
Compiled with xpdf version 4.04
Note the version numbers are identical; the only difference is that the
Linux version was compiled using slightly more current libraries. :-)
Makes even less sense for this small issue, for which there is s simple
> workaround and which I am confident will be fixed soon.
>
It makes very good sense if you've already got Parallels installed,
especially if you are working on a document with lots of graphics. My
suggestion wasn't meant as universal advice but simply as another
possibility that a few folks might find helpful. There is rarely just One
Right Way to do things.
I have been using Virtual Box on an Intel iMac (for many years) as my
> practice software runs on (Intel) Windows only. They have an early beta
> for ARM, but for if and when I have to replace the iMac (with an ARM
> iMini or Studio)
>From what I've been seeing, a Mac Mini together with a 27" LG 4K monitor
would be a much better choice than an iMac, both re cost and performance.
That's what I plan to go with when my beloved 2014 iMac is no longer viable.
> But, make no mistake, nothing else will be installed on that thingy, I
> will not use Microsoft products if there is any way around it and would
> not dream of even trying LyX on Windows.
>
I'm happy that works for you. I used a Dell laptop for a while a few years
back when Mac hardware development was in a terrible doldrums and found
Windows 11 to be quite good (especially with the Linux subsystem activated)
and LyX on Windows worked just fine, basically as well as it does under
MacOS (although neither can match the performance of LyX under Linux).
Cheers!
-chris
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