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Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

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Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

#11

As someone who hasn't upgraded yet, what is causing the 15s wait after a locked system? That sounds terrible.

I wish I knew!

Guys, the cause is the new OS. It wasn't happening 1hr before it started happening with the new OS, it never happened before.

Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

#12
post #9

It's not a great release and there are indeed a few bugs, but it's kind of okay. There's a lot of good stuff like container support! I don't know, but it seems to me like people are overreacting? Do y'all really care that much about how the desktop looks? It doesn't seem that different to me if I'm being honest. That's probably why they don't let me do frontend...

I think if anyone cares about desktop looks should go to Windows, where you can customize your desktop in many ways (not necessarily officially).

Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

#14
The most annoying thing for me currently is that when connecting to local smb shares with Finder and adding favorites (directories on shares), after a reboot they are still there under favorites, but it won't connect to them when clicking on them. So I have to manually reconnect to the server every time. This wasn't happening before.

Other than that, of course some things got slower, but overall it's an OK release. For example he new system settings were bad before, now they got a bit worse, but macOS 26 didn't introduce those changes.

Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

#16
post #9

It's not a great release and there are indeed a few bugs, but it's kind of okay. There's a lot of good stuff like container support! I don't know, but it seems to me like people are overreacting? Do y'all really care that much about how the desktop looks? It doesn't seem that different to me if I'm being honest. That's probably why they don't let me do frontend...

I think if anyone cares about desktop looks should go to Windows, where you can customize your desktop in many ways (not necessarily officially).

If that's what someone is looking for in particular, I'd lean Linux. I've found linux desktop customization is so much more flexible than Windows.

That said, I don't have much experience in that area on Linux or Windows anymore

Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I knew!

Guys, the cause is the new OS. It wasn't happening 1hr before it started happening with the new OS, it never happened before.

The cause is probably related to the new OS, but I don't have that same wait on my multiple Tahoe systems, so it's not just because: Tahoe.

If you're a Linux user, or were a Linux user, check the logs, close programs, uncheck login items 1 by 1, run "launchctl list", etc to identify the specific cause.

Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs

#19
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think if anyone cares about desktop looks should go to Windows, where you can customize your desktop in many ways (not necessarily officially).

If that's what someone is looking for in particular, I'd lean Linux. I've found linux desktop customization is so much more flexible than Windows. That said, I don't have much experience in that area on Linux or Windows anymore

There isn't really "it just works" in Linux. Linux is of course more flexible.
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