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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by hnarn »

dual_dingo wrote: post #473
crawrey wrote: post #444

I just upgraded to Monterey on my Macbook Pro 2018 15-inch and after rebooting, all of the USB-C ports stopped working, including the power adapter. I spent some time on the phone with Apple Support trying to figure out how to fix it. After about an hour and a half there was about 18% battery left before I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. After panicking, the 3rd Apple Support Re…

> I just upgraded to Monterey > I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. Upgrading to a new OS on release day without a prior backup. You like to live dangerously, do you?

This isn't Arch Linux we're talking about, it's the presumably tested and released operating system for the most premium personal computing hardware in the world. I'm not saying you shouldn't back up your stuff but your expectation on user behavior is unrealistic to put it mildly.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by sneak »

Big Sur is the first macOS since I have been using macOS (I distinctly recall being extremely excited to install System 7) where the next major version (Monterey) came out before I had installed it onto any of my daily driver systems.

I'm not really sure what this says about macOS product management decisions, but I don't think it's a good thing.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/fucking-apple-4/

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/can-light-gray-text-on-ligh...

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by williamdclt »

pier25 wrote: post #202
X6S1x6Okd1st wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I hate that aspect

Same. I never use spaces or apps in fullscreen (except when watching videos). I find it way easier to do CMD + TAB to switch between apps, than having to switch between spaces until I get to where I want to be.

cmd+tab does search across spaces though, doesn't it?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by concinds »

josephg wrote: post #322
0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you…

People need to be very careful with this, because not only are there some PDF formats that only work with Acrobat, but I've encountered issues where the PDF opens correctly in Preview, and you can fill them just fine, but if you save it and send it, and the person opens your filled PDF in Acrobat, the text you entered will be completely jumbled.

If a PDF is meant to be printed, who cares, but if you're sending it to someone, make sure to open it in Acrobat and check if it's formatted correctly; ideally, make it in Acrobat.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by popcorncowboy »

dual_dingo wrote: post #473
crawrey wrote: post #444

I just upgraded to Monterey on my Macbook Pro 2018 15-inch and after rebooting, all of the USB-C ports stopped working, including the power adapter. I spent some time on the phone with Apple Support trying to figure out how to fix it. After about an hour and a half there was about 18% battery left before I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. After panicking, the 3rd Apple Support Re…

> I just upgraded to Monterey > I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. Upgrading to a new OS on release day without a prior backup. You like to live dangerously, do you?

At what point do we start to hold software and software providers to a higher standard?

A multi-trillion dollar company releases an upgrade to its flagship operating system and "anyone who knows anything" smiles and nods because we understand that actually USING the upgrade runs a high enough chance to brick your device that doing so without a backup is a rube cliche.

I get it. But my question stands.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by pps »

moretti wrote: post #366

Can anyone confirm if the final build number is the same as 12.0.1 RC2 (21A559)? You can run `$ sw_vers` from the CLI to check it.

Yes, it's the same build version

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Angostura »

mulmen wrote: post #246
Waterluvian wrote: post #121

I've been away from MacOS for about 10 years. Big Sur now. Kinda hate it. I keep accidentally invoking extra layers of UI everywhere. That's fine I guess. But what I ran into that I LOVE is making EVERY app full-screen, pretending there is no desktop or window management, and just swiping right/left among them. I wish there was a way to smooth out the UX so that this feels first-class and I stop accidentally breaking…

I have been using Macs daily for a decade. Big Sur is a big reversion in usability. Easily the worst MacOS update I can recall. The UI is a lot clunkier and slower and just harder to make sense of. They will throw it all out in 2-4 years and start over, that's about how long the UI stays stable.

I think the obsession with making everything white, with no clear distinction between window contents and window chrome makes it quite confusing. I'm hoping they revert this. Not everything has to be flat.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by karolist »

nsonha wrote: post #389
tfsh wrote: post #300

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If you're looking for a good OSX window manager, Yabai [1] is excellent. If you're willing and allowed too you can get greater control by disabling SIP. However even with system integrity enabled (which bars access to certain WindowServer APIs - space control, removing shadows, multi-monitor integrations) Yabai functions great. It uses a messaging passing API to interface with a local service, so it's completely prog…

> binary space partitioning instant put off seriously why is this a thing? Who looks at their messy desktop and think to themselves: "man it would be nice to have all of this organized... with binary partitioning algorithm"? I tried amethyst as well as i3 on linux, gave up on tilling. I prefer to do it myself according to the need at the time. Just need hot keys.

Look into Rectangle if you just want the snapping resize ability or BetterSnapTool as a more advanced utility. In BetterSnapTool you can define custom snap areas and associate just specific apps with them, specifying window sizes and positioning per snap area. I’ve tried binary tilers and it only really works on text heavy workloads for me.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by tyilo »

SKCarr wrote: post #394
fingerlocks wrote: post #349

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I've never seen this before, and I've been using the Preview method described above for 15+ years. I have also never installed an Adobe product on a mac, ever. Do you have a link to a file that can produce this error in Mac Preview? It would be fun to learn how to bypass that.

Here's an example of a file that won't load properly in Preview and requires Acrobat: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...

You can use Firefox to fill that in.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by afro88 »

AnonC wrote: post #442
Synaesthesia wrote: post #418

It runs really well on my 2012 Macbook Pro thanks to OCLP. Better even than Big Sur so far.

How did you get it to run on a 2021 MBP, since macOS Monterey drops support even for the 2013 and some 2014 models?

I think OP is referring to this when they say OCLP: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
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