Man... I know this post will have some real "angry old man shaking his fists at the clouds" energy, but this latest OS update, even 27.0.1, is just so freakin' janky.
Spaces... the windows don't layer right. So I can't always move them to a new space. When I bring up the various desktops, some windows just freeze at the original size and refuse to move.
Similarly, the desktop previews for other desktops don't work. They start out working, but as soon as I resize a window, the previews in the virtual desktops go blank, so I can't see which desktops have files and applications running.
Also, probably the most annoying, my laptop (M4 Max MBP) battery life is just gone from what it was a week ago. It used to last a day; now it's maybe 4 hours -- I've noticed the fan is on a lot more which is likely the cause.
The laptop went from always being quiet, cool, to being warm when I pick it up.
And yeah, I've tuned all the settings, fixed what I could, but Spaces and virtual desktops are just broke.
As someone who has been using virtual desktops for as long as Apple has had this feature... man, it's just a total drain on productivity to try and shoehorn everything into one desktop. I hate it. Might as well be using a computer that isn't my own.
And as someone who has used Mac for 40 years at this point... I'm just not used to Apple breaking this much. They were sticklers for detail, and that's why I love their products. But this latest OS feels untested. Do they only care about users using one application at a time? Feels like they just gave up on advanced users. Anyone running Spaces / virtual desktops would have noticed all these bugs.
The last OS added a ton of bullshit transparent glitter; this one broke how I use my computer. It sucks knowing that even Apple can't get things right today. Flat out just sucks.
Wish I could just roll back. Left waiting for them to maybe, hopefully, someday put in a patch to fix all the stuff they just broke. Just maddening.
chrisweekly•32m ago
Yikes! I'm still on Sonoma and sticking with it as long as I can. Thanks for sharing. Good luck.
dbg31415•10m ago
Yeah I can't name a single feature I liked that was introduced Tahoe on.
macOS Tahoe (26) was the one where they introduced transparent everything, and it flat out sucked from a usability standpoint.
Design was busy for the sake of being busy, glossy for the sake of being glossy. And no attention at all was paid to usability.
Anyway stay on Sonoma mate, upgrading has killed my productivity and that just makes me way too angry. Ha.
But seriously, the real advantage to open-source software I think will be that you can just tell Claude, "Make this work the way I want it!" and boom it does.
I have loved Apple products for so long, and I can't imagine a world where I don't love their hardware, but since they shat the bed on usable design, and shat the bed on testing, I am starting to fantasize about a world where we could just send our PRs to fix MacOS. =P
rythmshifter•13m ago
iOS 27 has also been very buggy. Both releases are frankly embarrassing for Apple. I really really hope it’s not happening because of vibe coding…
dbg31415•43m ago
Spaces... the windows don't layer right. So I can't always move them to a new space. When I bring up the various desktops, some windows just freeze at the original size and refuse to move.
Similarly, the desktop previews for other desktops don't work. They start out working, but as soon as I resize a window, the previews in the virtual desktops go blank, so I can't see which desktops have files and applications running.
Also, probably the most annoying, my laptop (M4 Max MBP) battery life is just gone from what it was a week ago. It used to last a day; now it's maybe 4 hours -- I've noticed the fan is on a lot more which is likely the cause.
The laptop went from always being quiet, cool, to being warm when I pick it up.
And yeah, I've tuned all the settings, fixed what I could, but Spaces and virtual desktops are just broke.
As someone who has been using virtual desktops for as long as Apple has had this feature... man, it's just a total drain on productivity to try and shoehorn everything into one desktop. I hate it. Might as well be using a computer that isn't my own.
And as someone who has used Mac for 40 years at this point... I'm just not used to Apple breaking this much. They were sticklers for detail, and that's why I love their products. But this latest OS feels untested. Do they only care about users using one application at a time? Feels like they just gave up on advanced users. Anyone running Spaces / virtual desktops would have noticed all these bugs.
The last OS added a ton of bullshit transparent glitter; this one broke how I use my computer. It sucks knowing that even Apple can't get things right today. Flat out just sucks.
Wish I could just roll back. Left waiting for them to maybe, hopefully, someday put in a patch to fix all the stuff they just broke. Just maddening.
chrisweekly•32m ago
dbg31415•10m ago
macOS Tahoe (26) was the one where they introduced transparent everything, and it flat out sucked from a usability standpoint.
Design was busy for the sake of being busy, glossy for the sake of being glossy. And no attention at all was paid to usability.
* It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me // https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Anyway stay on Sonoma mate, upgrading has killed my productivity and that just makes me way too angry. Ha.
But seriously, the real advantage to open-source software I think will be that you can just tell Claude, "Make this work the way I want it!" and boom it does.
I have loved Apple products for so long, and I can't imagine a world where I don't love their hardware, but since they shat the bed on usable design, and shat the bed on testing, I am starting to fantasize about a world where we could just send our PRs to fix MacOS. =P