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Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by prawn » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 9:57 AM UTC

eridius wrote: post #131

prawn wrote: post #63

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I have been using the Yosemite beta and it has been pretty horrible. Constant visual glitches in Photoshop CS6, crashes with display glitches in Sublime Text and really long pauses anytime I try to save a simple document for the first time. e.g., save a new 100KB JPG in Photoshop? 1 min or more. Save a 100MB+ PSD that's already been saved? Instant. Would've happily avoided the beta but the only way to screen record d…

I've been using Yosemite since the early betas and it's been great for me. I don't use Photoshop, and I can certainly believe that Adobe might be doing nasty things, but all the apps I do use have been fine. > really long pauses anytime I try to save a simple document for the first time Is that actually what's happening, or is it a really long pause when trying to show the open/save dialog? I have a couple of NAS vol…

No, really long time to save after actually hitting the Save button. Something to do with creating a new file maybe?

On Friday when I went to reboot, after coming back up it spun overnight without finishing the boot. That started a process which took three days to get Internet Recovery working, restore from Time Machine and then upgrade to Yosemite and finally ditch that awful beta. Absolute waste of time and when I could least afford it.

The long saving times and visual glitches have disappeared with the full Yosemite by the way. Phew!

Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by mattgreenrocks » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

junkblocker wrote: post #230

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #212

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Me too. I suspect Chrome to be involved, if only because they had this problem back in 2012 as well, around the time the rMBP came out.

I noticed Chrome crashing whenever I was in the Chrome store too many time. The 'graphics error happened' message after the crash was another clue. So I turned off native graphics acceleration in Chrome's setting and it's not crashed since then.

Yeah, I hate posting "I think it's such and such" without looking at logs, but realistically, very few apps are trying to be their own OS.

Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by mrottenkolber » Wed, Oct 22, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #159

acdha wrote: post #101

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> FYI, there are OS distributions that do not crash. Yes, I have heard that LepriconSoft's UnicornOS runs quite well on the Hypothetica-9000 processor but everything else has the same real-world problems with faulty hardware and drivers. You might have a stable setup but that's also true of well over 99% of Mac users – they just also don't tend to go on forums and say “Yeap, everything's still fine here!”.

I'd say LepriconSoft's UnicornOS is actually Windows 8.1, as strange/infuriating as that's going to sound to many HN readers. I used Xubuntu or Fedora (dev), Windows 7 (Office), and OS X (XCode) for hours every day for years. I had two self-built machines running Linux, a laptop and a self-built machine running Win 7, and OS X running on a Mac Mini and later a MBA. Since then, I've also had another desktop and a lapt…

I was actually talking about LepriconSoft's Slackware Linux :)

But your argument holds, stable, well tested, non-fancy software is the way to go regarding stability.

Yes my OS might be boring and my Desktop UI looks like 1999 but I can say in good faith that my system never crashed on me.