One of our website visitors asked if ThinLinc supports Mac M1.

Hello @jeanz We have no native client built for the Macbook M1 (ARM) architecture, but MacOS ships with Rosetta2 which enables x86-64 emulation on these Macbook’s. We have users successfully running the Thinlinc Client on these machines, so it shouldn’t be a problem to download and use the regul…

Can you please comment when native support for Apple Silicon (M1) is to be expected? It would really be a good move to have a native Apple Silicon version of the ThinLinc client available for macOS and it should be quite straight forward to compile a version with both (x86_64) and ARM in the same bi…

Hello @j.maus Thank you for your feedback! Could you elaborate a bit on how having a native client for M1 would be beneficial / give more advantages compared to running the client w/ of Rosetta? Do you notice any slowness/glitches/bugs with using the x86 client on M1? We do have Bug 7520 - ThinL…

It’s been 8 months since the previous discussion on this thread… any progress yet on a native ThinLinc client for Apple Silicon? My company issued me a new laptop and the ThinLinc client is the last piece of software that is keeping me from being able to use it in the field. Yes, I know about Rosett…

I’m afraid M1 support will not happen until our tooling supports it. Right now I can only find experimental support for gcc, so it is likely still some time away. Once that support is stable, we will also need to look at upgrading our internal systems, which can take some time as these things are co…

[image] ThinLinc client on Apple silicon and the Rosetta end-of-support warning Knowledge Base If you run the ThinLinc client on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later), recent macOS versions have started showing a warning when you launch it, saying the app relies o…

Does ThinLinc support Mac M1?

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Does ThinLinc support Mac M1?

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