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> The recent 32-bit support drop killed a huge amount of macOS games. Now I have to bootcamp to play some of my favorite games.

I just see no reason to upgrade the OS to the version that dropped 32-bit support. High Sierra runs everything and feels great.

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Xcode 11.5+ runs only on Catalina. If you want to use it, you’re mostly forced to.

This is one of the real problems: Apple knows that a significant chunk of desktop/laptop users are iOS devs, and while they started to use Xcode as a carrot, it’s now very clearly a warship-mounted harpoon, dragging everyone along in to waters infested with piranha (biting in to freedom of speech, ability to use 3rd party tools, ability to hack away at the hardware of our choice, and many others).

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