How about running Big Sur on a VMWARE (or similar) system? There's some Hackintosh links around as well, for running it directly on non apple hardware. I'm getting tired of the Apple ecosystem refusing to allow updates, and apps refusing to upgrade unless you have the latest sparkling new Apples.
https://shaadlife.com/macos-big-sur-on-vmware/?amp Mike On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 05:25 Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > After more research about the dependencies around the Xamarin.iOS > ecosystem I am pretty sure that I have hit a wall of dominos 5-deep. It > goes like this: > > VS2019 Community for Mac 8.10.11 (8) > comes with --> Xamarin.iOS 15.0.0.6 > needs --> Xcode 13 > needs --> macOS Big Sur 11.3 > needs --> *(some iMac)* > > My iMac is a 27-inch, Late 2013, 3.2GHz i5 running Catalina 10.15.7 and I > am not being offered or allowed any more OS updates. I've asked a Genius > friend to confirm this. If true, then I actually have hit the wall and will > need a new Mac. > > If I could downgrade to Xamarin.iOS 14.14 then everything would be back > in-range again, but apparently that would require downgrading VS2019 as > well and it gets really messy. > > *Greg K* > >>
