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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by jamil7 »

alwillis wrote: post #319
_fat_santa wrote: post #155

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I have similar feelings. On the one hand I would love to check out the new version of MacOS. On the other hand I use my machine for work and can't afford any downtime. I upgraded to Catalina 5-8 months after it was released, mostly because the initial rollout was so rocky (at least according to the articles on HN). Going to keep my eyes peeled for reviews here in the next few weeks. Hopefully this is a more stable re…

Going to keep my eyes peeled for reviews here in the next few weeks. Hopefully this is a more stable release than Catalina. I had several problems with the early releases of Catalina, including my Apple-made USB keyboard not being recognized. Even after it seemingly was fixed, a dot release would break it again. I did at least two clean installs to resolve the problem once a stable version of Catalina was released. I…

I’ve been on it since one of the earlier betas for testing reasons and it’s been a bumpy ride, I’ve filed more feedback than before. It’s definitely stabilised a lot though and feels reasonably solid today. There’s a few nagging visual bugs and weird performance spikes floating around though.

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Post by FullyFunctional »

egypturnash wrote: post #209

Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.

32-bit apps. I have 32-bit apps where the developer is either gone or will not update, thus if I wish to keep using these I have to stay on Mojava. This applies to four Macs which will likely never move away from Mojava.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by alwillis »

jdeibele wrote: post #67

The look and feel of Big Sur is like a breath of fresh air. It definitely feels related to iPadOS with the colors and buttons that seem destined for a touchscreen but as somebody who uses multiple Apple devices it was comforting rather than annoying. There are ongoing issues with Apple locking down potential security problems and this makes some people unhappy. Carbon Copy Cloner didn't work with creating a bootable…

Carbon Copy Cloner 5.1.23-b1 is available as a universal app and can make bootable backups on Big Sur as well: https://bombich.com/blog/2020/11/03/yes-you-can-have-bootabl...

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Post by floatingatoll »

tobr wrote: post #224
enriquto wrote: post #183

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> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?

How do you not get there? There’s no point in the “core gameplay loop” of browsing the web where you are encouraged to close a tab. They just disappear among the other ones and you don’t really have a reason to stop and think about whether you’re done with them. At some point there are hundreds.

I close a tab when I want to stop thinking about it, and if I hit fifty tabs, I’m so distracted I don’t have time to think about any of them and just close the entire set.

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Post by greedo »

pkulak wrote: post #285
lukifer wrote: post #130

Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.

Same here. I eventually upgraded to a Linux distro and couldn't be happier. What finally did it for me was when I did an "ls" in a terminal after an upgrade, accidentally hit the wrong button when the OS asked for permission, and locked my terminal out of file system access. Mac OS is no longer any good for professional use, outside of media creation.

Any "professional" who can't spend two minutes googling how to reset this doesn't deserve the title.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by pier25 »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

A lot of Apple users also have devices outside the Apple ecosystem. It really doesn't matter how good Safari is if you can't use it in your Android phone or Windows machine.

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Post by ImaCake »

spenvo wrote: post #249

PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps' windows are when plugging back into an external display https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/651131?answerId=64... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jt0gjk/big_sur_forge... I've been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there's still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors. If you unplug a…

Thanks, this is actually my favourite MacOS feature and I don't wish to go without it until they fix it!

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Post by justinator »

pishpash wrote: post #250
layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #214

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

It's actually abnormal to actively throw away things. It's not how the brain works. Do you actively try to "forget" things? Very rarely. We only need to throw away physical objects due to space constraints and rearrangement/search cost. Mental and virtual objects can decay away and there is no rearrangement cost when they are already organized by relevance.

There’s literally a movement of affluent people to move into tiny houses. It may seem strange to some but maybe what’s abnormal is all this want for more more more is just marketing and one has to admit that they’ve fallen prey to it. I don’t like stuff and I loathe acquiring things. Getting rid of a car, for example changed my life for the better. Needing one in the future leads me anxious, no matter how much money car manufacturers spend to tell me I need to do just that to fit in with their status quo.
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