They totally destroyed audiobooks in what used to be iTunes. No smart lists, can’t edit MP3 tags, can’t delete or listen to single tracks, can’t store files on external drive. I don’t understand how anybody could think this was a good idea. Why destroying functionality that worked and replace it with something that barely works? This is a huge disappointment.
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
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#12Installed the first beta, had some issues in beta 3 or so with actually deleting files when emptying the bin, but that’s why it’s called beta. Had zero problems with later betas, have no idea why podcasters and other influencers are negging on it so much.
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#13I have an issue with my iMac 5k 2017 not staying in sleep when I selected so.
Randomly wakes with the display off. But I can tell because there’s a very low fan noise and some heat from the back.
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#14"why mess with Mail’s classic layout? It’s been my preferred layout since Mac OS X 10.0, and that type of layout has basically been the one I have used since I started using email more than twenty years ago" This seems to be the heart of the post. I see the value in stable, unchanging things, but I also have to believe the designers at Apple are trying to make things better, and I think that is honorable.
From what I have seen the designers aren’t making things better but different for its own sake or dumbed down.
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#15That reads less like a reasonable, well-thought breakdown and more like a whiny diatribe coming from an entitled teenager. If the entire argument boils down to "I don't wanna!", then what's the point? Don't upgrade. Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade at all. If you need to run all your old software, don't upgrade. That's not a fault of the new OS. Technology changes. That's a fact of life. Even the example of Aperture is a little far-fetched. It's literally been years since Aperture was discontinued and taken off the shelves.
I dunno... to me it sounds like someone complaining that their new computer can't run DooM anymore because it didn't come with a 3.5" floppy drive. Yes, you can run DooM still but not in the very specific, needlessly encumbered method you want to run it in. Times change, technology changes, and it's just not productive to lock yourself in to something and then complain when what you've locked yourself into doesn't work out the way you predicted. Keep using the old OS. Just don't act surprised and attacked when it doesn't work anymore years from now.
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#16Selling a computer with spinning rust as main drive in 2017 is extremely shameful.
Why? Time and I/O speed isn't as relevant for everyone as you might think. I sure don't want a system without flash memory, but I know not everybody is me and not everybody will care.
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#17For what its worth, Catalina has made my 2019 run slightly smother and less buggy. This might be because it reset all the preferences or its just in my head. All my "pro" audio stuff seems to work and my Apogee Groove works like before. My usb hub network port/driver would fail/crash randomly on Mojave needing a reboot but this has not happened on Catalina. Edit: And someone else replied, the DPI/font stuff seems to…
FWIW, many (most?) audio developers[1] are advising that folks wait to upgrade to Catalina for legitimate reasons.
[1] https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2019/9/...
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#18"My point is, I’ve been into technology for more than 30 years, and I feel that Apple’s software culture has become progressively more user-hostile than it used to be."
Supporting the upgrade process at an enterprise level is especially difficult. PPPC's must be created to get anything connected to the camera, mic, keyboard or screen. The walls to the rose garden of macOS are higher.
Could OS software be built like Ubuntu? With LTS in the model for 5 years? + Security patches when necessary?
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#19My iMac Pro went into reboot loops every 20 minutes. Even after a clean install. Then I lost a lot of mail even on a clean install.
Its pretty much crap. I'll wait until 10.16 is out and then upgrade to the 10.15 that isn't crap.
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#20I always wait a minimum of a few months after major updates are released to install them. Nothing I hate more than having my dev environment hosed because some binary I depend won’t build correctly or something in my stack starts throwing runtime errors. A couple months usually all of these type issues to get ironed out.