Article Do You Use It? How TidBITS Readers Install macOS Updates - TidBITS says that “Some people even wait until Apple announces or even releases the next macOS version, under the theory that it somehow isn’t fully baked until then.”. I wait until the next major release, but not under that theory. It used to be one reason to wait was that macOS updates have become so time consuming that I’d wait until there were just the faster security updates left. But now with the sealed system volume even ...
  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    4510·
    9 months ago

    Most of these are absolute whiny bullshit. Half of these are about progress. 32 bit app support? Yeah no shit, this isn’t windows. They’re gonna move forward at some point.

  • peskywarrior@lemmy.world
    191·
    9 months ago

    Didn’t forget the ability to uninstall pre-installed apps without compromising security and locking you out of updates (you need to modify the system image which affects SIP and also doesn’t allow you to use FileVault disk encryption once disabled)…

  • hydroptic
    203·
    9 months ago

    I’ve been using OS X / macOS for over 20 years now, often alongside some Linux or *BSD distro or another. For the past 10 I’ve been exclusively using macOS, but recently I’ve started thinking of ditching it for Linux.

    The OS just gets more closed down over time, includes more and more really fucking creepy surveillance features, loses actually useful features, and gains bugs. Apple also has an incredibly annoying habit of coming up with new and possibly useful features that they introduce and then just leave to languish, or replace with a similar but more broken one; Automator & Shortcuts is a pretty good example of this. Or Aperture & iPhoto/Photos.

    • realitista@lemm.ee
      71·
      9 months ago

      Yes every macOS and Windows upgrade I’ve done at least in the last decade has felt like a downgrade where I lost something significant I was using regularly and gained nothing useful whatsoever.

      • hydroptic
        11·
        9 months ago

        Oo, that seems useful, thanks for the tip

    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      63·
      9 months ago

      KDE neon is pretty slick. Plasma 6 is a big step. Still lacks a decent replacement for Photoshop (no, gimp sucks).

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        Why pay for Photoshop when Photopea is free and does what 90% of Photoshop users actually need to do? Also, GIMP has come a long way, it’s more usable than ever and gets better with every new release.

        • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
          71·
          9 months ago

          Photopea is ad driven, and web based. Which means it’s going to be slower. And I agree GIMP has come a long way, but it’s not a competitor. I use Affinity Photo on my Mac, and I’ve found it to be a good replacement. I do wish they would release a Linux binary.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m with you. It was always about the intuitive nature of the OS, and things just working, for me. All that seems to have gone out the window, and my ecosystem is just as frustrating as Windows at this point. I’ve been a MacOS user since 2007.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Anyone arguing for Mobile Me and PowerPC apps is a crazy person.

    This is a bizarre list that lacks context. Also, much of this functionality still exists, but it’s been rebranded or moved.

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 months ago

    The big one for me is Time Machine lost the ability to delete that has already been backed up.

    So if you work with very large files and they fills your backup drive… that’s it. You need to either buy a new drive or erase it completely (losing all your historical backups). With the old Time Machine you could go through it and delete half a terabyte of data that never really needed to be backed up.

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    8·
    9 months ago

    The missed Preview’s recent loss of the ability to open Postscript and EPS files. That was a real bummer

  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
    113·
    9 months ago

    10.10 Yosemite • A legible user interface

    Oh burn.

    In all seriousness, this is an enlightening list. I knew someone of these like save as, but not others, like loss of antialiasing on non-retina Mac’s.

    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      44·
      9 months ago

      I have a non-retina running 11, and it’s antialiased. So, lies.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteOP
        11·
        9 months ago

        The new font smoothing is not the same with the subpixel anti aliasing it replaced. Thin text on non-retina monitors looks worse now than before. Most people probably don’t notice it, but for those that do it was a major downgrade.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think this is a popular opinion, but for me Yosemite to Catalina was perfect looks wise. Mac OS became real ugly with Big Sur.
    I dunno, I just really miss the gradients and the new design language of merging buttons and titlebar into one thick ass titlebar is plain horrendous to me.