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

Never experienced the 15 second wait for an unlock myself -- sounds like something has to time out for you before unlocking, e.g., some network thing.

As for the UI, meh -- I suppose it's personal taste. I could take it or leave it, but I wish they'd focus on substance over form, i.e., addressing bugs and fixing functionality (e.g., Mail's search remains useless, particularly compared to something like infoclick) instead of gratuitous appearance changes that no one asks for.

But form over substance seems the norm in our industry (see e.g., Windows 11)

I've noticed some things running slower too, but I wasn't sure if my computer was getting older. As for the interface/asthetic, it's pretty terrible in every regard.

Big changes have always been a little rocky. Over time I expect they will refine it and work out the bugs. We’ve been through this before, and every OS goes through things like this from time to time.

Those who exchange freedom for convenience deserve neither.

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...

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.