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Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by cosmic_cheese » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

RowanH wrote: post #8

DrawTR wrote: post #3

Every time I see a comment on the state of Tahoe I look wearily at my current install of Sequoia. I'll have to update at some point. But I'll hold out as long as I can...

They've done something with the printer system in Tahoe. Brother removed support for native drivers on certain label printers on Tahoe (!!!) when you go searching you find other printer issues. Like, why. Why would you need to change the printer system? It works.. has worked for a very long time, there's no reasonable need to change it.

This might've been a side effect of removing support for third-party kernel extensions rather than something changing with the printer system specifically.

I have an old (~10 years old) printer that Cannon stopped supplying updated macOS drivers for several years ago. The installer for the drivers failed so I had to extract the files from the package and install them manually. In the end only the network drivers work, the USB drivers are kexts which won't run.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by dubya » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #14

egwor wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did it today. It took me thirty minutes to fix the networking because I couldn't get Little Snitch to uninstall since it didn't seem to be compatible. Basically I had to reboot in recovery mode to disable security features (csr) to uninstall Little Snitch (via systemextensionsctl). This is the worst update I've ever gone through on Mac, and I started using a Macintosh SE.

It's a bit unfair to complain about your OS being broken by incompatible software that modifies the kernel.

In the past, MacOS has automatically made a folder of incompatible software that it leaves on the desktop. Little Snitch seems like something that could have been tested.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by harikb » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

Apart from the mess it caused for iPhone and Mac, my watch upgraded last night to 26 flavor. I am not kidding - I can't see anything on the screen now before coffee. Watch has become completely useless for my early morning eyes.

What they did to Watch is much worse than what they did to iPhone and Mac

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #5

I've been running Tahoe since 26.2, after cowardly skipping 0 and 1. And... it's fine? Am I only using the happy path? Or are people just particularly confident about complaining about Tahoe after seeing everyone else do it. For sure it has glitches, but as far as I can tell, they're the same glitches that were in Sequoia. (If anyone at Apple is reading this, can you take a glance at your NFS client code? It does lik…

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Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by JackuB » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

I’m in a camp where Tahoe is just ugly, but worked fine on my mac and with my usage and devices. On the other hand, iOS 26 is so incredibly bad. Anything from anti-user choices, UI glitches, to keyboard… it’s tiring. It might be the one where I’m pushed to a different OS for the first time. I doubt Apple can fix itself in the near future, with the leadership they have.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by projektfu » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

I was a big Mac user. I had a IIcx and an LC, and I evangelized it even when apple stock was $0.95 and the wolves were at the door. I couldn't afford a PowerMac at the time, but I generally used them at the university when I could. I had a desk lamp iMac, then bought the first big screen iMac, which lasted me quite a while. I really liked everything up to Snow Leopard, probably a little beyond that, too.

But in a long time I haven't really enjoyed using the mac and I use other systems instead. They got rid of subpixel rendering and now text is blurry on my monitors. The interactions are much more of a chore. Features were removed from Preview and other apps that were better before. I quit using XCode for a few years and couldn't recognize it when I came back. So I use it maybe every 3-4 weeks now. I have no interest in buying another one.

I just don't know why they seem to be going out of their way to make the system unfriendly to existing users.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by lateforwork » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #5

I've been running Tahoe since 26.2, after cowardly skipping 0 and 1. And... it's fine? Am I only using the happy path? Or are people just particularly confident about complaining about Tahoe after seeing everyone else do it. For sure it has glitches, but as far as I can tell, they're the same glitches that were in Sequoia. (If anyone at Apple is reading this, can you take a glance at your NFS client code? It does lik…

> And... it's fine? Am I only using the happy path? Or are people just particularly confident about complaining about Tahoe after seeing everyone else do it.

That's like asking whether Jackson Pollock or Thomas Kinkade is the better artist. There is no objective measure for it. Some people will have a strong preference, others won't have a preference at all. The designers who made the changes in Tahoe clearly thought the changes are improvements. A lot of macOS users disagree, but some macOS users don't have a preference.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by freetonik » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

My partner’s iMac recently died (seemingly the Radeon graphics card had failed, which is not uncommon on 2017 model). It was frustrating to find out that Time Machine was not operational for 8 last months. It was always connected. There were zero indications of any issues. It just stopped backing up at some point. The disk had enough space.

In the past I had problems with network attached Time Machine destinations, but now I have zero trust even in the “native” USB-based method.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by zitterbewegung » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #5

I've been running Tahoe since 26.2, after cowardly skipping 0 and 1. And... it's fine? Am I only using the happy path? Or are people just particularly confident about complaining about Tahoe after seeing everyone else do it. For sure it has glitches, but as far as I can tell, they're the same glitches that were in Sequoia. (If anyone at Apple is reading this, can you take a glance at your NFS client code? It does lik…

I've only seen a performance hit in rendering all of the icons they have put throuhgout Tahoe and I have had dark mode on. My total experience is about the same and I do like I can color and change the icons easily like classic macOS. I do see the liquid glass changes as a bit weird and inconsistent and while that can be reverted I just got used to it.

Re: Welcome (back) to Macintosh

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Post by iamdamian » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

This has been the first year in a very long time that I’ve thought about leaving macOS. They seem to have lost the plot on software and documentation.

It might be nice for someone to crowd source a reasonable list of features they need to improve or document. Could get traction.