![]() ![]() What I'd really like to see is a slower operating system development cycle. In the past I've gone months between restarts, but now I can't go more than a week or so. I'm not sure of the cause, but I've seen Mission Control and the Dock randomly freeze/crash in some weird state and make the system completely unusable, or for some memory leak (I think) to just randomly cause the system to slow to a crawl even with all Apps killed and necessitate restarts much more often than reasonably necessary. I've noticed more minor UI bugs than usual, but what's really glaring to me is system stability. In other words, this is not a controversial or contrarian view. ![]() Many old OS X hands feel that from 10.0 to 10.6 it got better and better, and since then, it's deteriorated and it's still doing so. When Riccardo said that he felt that the experience had degraded since "Snow Leopard", he is merely expressing a widely-held view. I'm still in those fora and their modern continuations. I've been doing this stuff for more than a third of a century, and that's professionally, after nearly a decade as a hobbyist.) In addition I'd add that I started using Mac OS X with 10.0, and on unsupported old Macs because new ones were too expensive for me to afford back then, so I hung out in various fora for people running unsupported kit. Otherwise you look ill-informed and ignorant, and to be judging on that basis of a lack of understanding. The first one of them, particularly, went viral and TBH I'd expect you to have known that, and to have read those earlier posts, before you start passing judgement. He knows this subject area exceptionally well. He has written about this extensively before, in January 2021:Īnd then revisiting it a month later after it received a lot of comment and attention: As such, I think his assessment is sound.Īdditionally, this piece does not stand alone. What he's saying is that he's tried later versions of the same OS and he doesn't like them. I found this blog post really resonated with me, but your comment reads to me like you feel we haven't given it a fair enough crack of the whip and our opinions are thus invalid. Its menu bar uses a different font, is a different size, Settings has been completely revamped - and I don't use iPhones for reasons: I've had 3 of them, and I prefer Android - so the last thing I want is my Mac to be more iOS like. In fact, this week, I spent half an hour trying out macOS 13 on some M1 machines in an Apple reseller, and I didn't like it at all. That means it doesn't take me long to try one and see if I like it. I mean, I've been using Macs since System 7 came out. Is this somehow not enough for you? That we have to install it and personally use it day-to-day in order to qualify our opinion enough? Because I've tried friends' machines, and tried each version in Apple shops and so on, and I don't like what I see. My own iMac runs 10.14 and what I've seen of each newer version puts me off more and more, so I too have a machine that could run at least macOS 12, but it doesn't. Which means he has used newer versions, and you cited him saying so. > What I’ve seen on other people’s Macs or borrowed Macs has been enough > He hasn't used a new version since High Sierra It's become a very frustrating OS to try to love. Now we still have total lack of output of what's happening, and things just fail silently all the time. You didn't need it because everything worked. ![]() That was the excuse for having far less verbose output of what's happening. In the early aughts when I asked macOS to do something there was no question, it would work. The thing that really gets me is just reliability. In the current state, given the existence and relative decent usability of WSL2, given the choice today rather than twenty years ago, I may have never switched. The difference between macOS and Windows though isn't as big as it was when I switched 20 years ago, and most of the gap was closed by macOS getting worse and not by Windows getting better. It's still the best UNIX desktop, end of story. This treadmill yearly release cycle of half finished OS's released not because it was a good collection of well built features ready to be released, rather released because it was time for a release, have done nothing but tarnish the OS. I really miss the days of a rock solid release every ~4ish~ 3ish years - when it was ready. ![]()
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