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docs: drop the obsolete Rosetta2 guidance for Apple silicon
bioconda has shipped native osx-arm64 builds since simpleaf 0.18.0, piscem 0.10.2, and alevin-fry 0.11.0, plus linux-aarch64 for all three, so telling Apple-silicon users to install under x86 emulation has been wrong for a while and now steers them onto a slower path for no reason. The "all x86 (Linux or Mac) users" framing on the conda recommendation is stale for the same reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VhyNvEWUgY8ALVacdJHxVJ
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## Recommended: installing from conda
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We recommend all x86 (Linux or Mac) users to install `simpleaf` from bioconda, because all its dependencies are also available on conda, and will be automatically installed (except `piscem`) when installing `simpleaf`.
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We recommend that Linux and macOS users install `simpleaf` from bioconda, because all its dependencies are also available on conda, and will be automatically installed (except `piscem`) when installing `simpleaf`.
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```sh
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conda install simpleaf piscem -c bioconda -c conda-forge
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**For Apple-silicon computers**, for example those with an Apple M-series chip, simpleaf should be installed under the x86 emulation layer, in other words, in shell with Rosetta2 enabled. See [this](https://combine-lab.github.io/alevin-fry-tutorials/2023/simpleaf-piscem/#:~:text=Attention%20Apple%20silicon%20computer%20users%3A) for details. Furthermore, if one would like to use `piscem` on apple silicon, one has to either download the [pre-built piscem executable](https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/piscem/releases) or build piscem from source **in the native shell (with Rosetta2 disabled)** using the commands described [here](https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/piscem#building). Then, piscem can be executed from both Rosetta2 enabled and disabled shell.
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**Apple-silicon and ARM users** need no special handling. bioconda ships native `osx-arm64` and `linux-aarch64` packages for `simpleaf`, `piscem`, and `alevin-fry`, so the command above works as-is in a native shell. Rosetta2 is not required, and installing under emulation is no longer recommended.
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## Installing with cargo
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