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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by ushakov » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:30 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #75

Sort of a mini review. Using it at home on my MacBook Pro 2015 Intel Machine. Big Sur on M1 was fine ( if not great ), mostly because M1 is extremely fast. But Big Sir on x86 was slow, really slow. I am in the group that reported Big Sur was slower than Catalina, and Catalina was slower than Mojave. That is with both the OS itself and Safari. So Big Sur was not a smooth experience for me. Monterey so far brings back…

that's great to hear

i have a MacBook Pro with Intel as well

Big Sur feels sluggish, it's not that it's slow, but it feels slow. I don't remember what OS my MacBook came with, but every update made it slower, especially Mail.app, which takes good 10 seconds to launch. Downloading Monterey now, hopefully will see improvements!

edit: but my biggest macOS complaint yet has to be the space used by "Other", which at the moment is about 50GB and 70GB at times

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by brink » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:31 PM UTC

xu_ituairo wrote: post #80

brink wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was hoping someone would mention this. Shoving everything into a sub-menu made device statuses invisible and involved extra clicks to interact with them. It's user-hostile design.

Did you know you can drag the controls out onto the menu bar?

No, I did not.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by blondie9x » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:35 PM UTC

Has anyone shorted Zoom yet? Believe ticker is ZM.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:35 PM UTC

mrgalaxy wrote: post #4

How stable is Monterey for those that have been using it? Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina. I think I'll probably wait again to let 3rd-party apps catch up.

It's been pretty good, although it still has some strange bugs, but those might be a me problem. Namely, Mission Control crashes on me about 15 times a day. I have to 'killall Dock' to bring it back. Also, using Cmd-Space to launch apps is janky -- if I type say Saf, it will say "Safari.app" for about .7 seconds and then the autocomplete goes away. So I have to enter in those .7 seconds.

Other than those two things, it's been pretty solid lately.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by movedx » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:35 PM UTC

brink wrote: post #102

xu_ituairo wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you know you can drag the controls out onto the menu bar?

No, I did not.

Not to be rude, but this has been a thing for some time now.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by concinds » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:36 PM UTC

mrgalaxy wrote: post #4

How stable is Monterey for those that have been using it? Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina. I think I'll probably wait again to let 3rd-party apps catch up.

SharePlay to Mac is utterly broken, see my other comment.

Other than that, it seems more stable and faster than Big Sur, and that's without a clean install. Notes used to take 4 bounces to open on M1, now opens instantly. Haven't seen any crashing. No broken features that aren't brand new. I've only found one bug: Safari reopens private windows even if you turn that off. But no problem if you don't use Safari.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by paxys » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:36 PM UTC

A lot of these changes seem to be pandemic-driven, which makes sense, but it's telling that smaller competitors hacked together all these same features within weeks of WFH and the largest and most advanced company in the world is finally here 18 months later.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by bowmessage » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:38 PM UTC

Surprised they are opening the Walled Garden™ to allow FaceTime from Windows and Android.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by quitethelogic » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:38 PM UTC

TameAntelope wrote: post #97

I'm not sure I need yet another macOS version, feels like they've opted for a more frequent release cycle. I (genuinely) wonder why...

> feels like they've opted for a more frequent release cycle

Their OS releases have been yearly for about the past decade I think.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:39 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #107

A lot of these changes seem to be pandemic-driven, which makes sense, but it's telling that smaller competitors hacked together all these same features within weeks of WFH and the largest and most advanced company in the world is finally here 18 months later.

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