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Re: macOS 13 Ventura review

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Post by nioj »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #85
orr721 wrote: post #46

Anyone else noticed that the Preview app was tinkered with again ? Now it lost the ability to open PostScript files. This feature worked from the very beginning of Mac OSX up till Monterrey. The command line PostScript tools are still present though. Also all Ruby gems with native extensions stopped working for me, even the pre-installed system ones.

Thank heavens someone else noticed that Preview lost its ability to open PostScript. I occasionally use Preview to render manpages as PDF so I can print them out and using the Ventura beta made me think it was just a bug. It's a shame that it is missing in the final release -- I even filed several Feedback reports with basically no response. I am not sure at all what utility there is in removing features from Preview…

I’m also still on Monterrey, but I just discovered that Skim supports viewing both PostScript and eps files (I assume that functionality also works on Ventura), so that could also be a solution if you don’t want to switch between machines for viewing ps files.

Re: macOS 13 Ventura review

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Post by simplotek »

runjake wrote: post #180
simplotek wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It reduces legacy cruft. What you chose to describe as "legacy cruft" is actually the luxury laptop people spent over $2K close 6 or 7 years ago. > The alternative is you get to keep 20-30 year old legacy cruft, as with Windows. It's not a choice between bricking perfectly good computers after 6 years or maintaining them for 30 years.

Apple is bricking perfectly good computers? As far as I know, they keep running with the last supported version of macOS. And heck, Windows 11 doesn't really support pre-Coffee Lake CPUs without hacks similar to OpenCore's.

> As far as I know, they keep running with the last supported version of macOS.

During the past 3 years I was forced to upgrade from Mojave to Big Sur to Monterrey, each and every single time because otherwise my 2019 MacBook pro would not be allowed in the network as it was running unsupported OSes.

No, they do not keep running with the last supported version. Having a successful boot sequence and seeing blinking lights is not the end goal of spending over $2k on a luxury computer.

Re: macOS 13 Ventura review

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Post by gsinclair »

pwinnski wrote: post #109

I hate System Preferences, have hated System Preferences for years and years. I cannot seem to get used to where things are, no matter how often I use it. The order doesn't make sense to me, the grouping doesn't make sense to me, and the icons aren't visually distinct enough for me. I might be the only one, but it's hard to imagine any overhaul of System Preference not resulting in an improvement. I'm sure it's just…

The thought of using System Preferences (or Settings — I couldn’t tell you the difference, if there is one) to access anything, when Alfred or Spotlight can access it instead, is anathema to me.

Re: macOS 13 Ventura review

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Post by mldbk »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #85
orr721 wrote: post #46

Anyone else noticed that the Preview app was tinkered with again ? Now it lost the ability to open PostScript files. This feature worked from the very beginning of Mac OSX up till Monterrey. The command line PostScript tools are still present though. Also all Ruby gems with native extensions stopped working for me, even the pre-installed system ones.

Thank heavens someone else noticed that Preview lost its ability to open PostScript. I occasionally use Preview to render manpages as PDF so I can print them out and using the Ventura beta made me think it was just a bug. It's a shame that it is missing in the final release -- I even filed several Feedback reports with basically no response. I am not sure at all what utility there is in removing features from Preview…

JFYI, you still have a CLI man-preview utility, which basically converts man page to PDF format.
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