you do realize that USER has to install those. How about you keep the responsibilities to the user?
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Apple Begins Warning Users That 'Legacy System Extensions' Won't Work With a Future Version of macOS
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Yeah, the user installs them, never patches them (or worse/more common - the third party vendor never releases updates for security holes) and then the user gets totally owned by a vulnerability in said kernel extension.
Stuff that can run in user space should run in user space.
If you want to run whatever you like on your hardware and be 100% responsible for your platform, run linux on a PC. That's not the product Apple are selling; never have since the Apple II.
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If you use pirated software, java related software, DLL style programs, unsigned open-source software or if you modify a signed software, those software will crash upon opening on macOS 10.15.4 and above, aka this update. So far, there is no way you can fix those issues other than manually resign the software, which can solve some of the issues, but if the program has other signature or hash protection in place, it's very difficult to deal with.
I didn't see the point in upgrading my machines past Sierra. More headaches and broken software compatibility in exchange for what?
Eventually, softwares running on Sierra won’t get feature and security updates. Like as soon as this fall.
Sierra (and its version of Safari) itself hasn't received a security update since last fall.
Who cares? Still running 10.9.5 Mavericks here with absolutely no problem whatsoever.
If you're "in the ecosystem" (which is a large part of the reason to run apple gear in the first place - for the device integration) you're going to run into issues with that when you try to integrate that with newer iOS/tvOS/ipadOS devices.
Right now for example i'm looking forward to my new macbook air so i can finally use my ipad as a second display when away from the office...
I have tested. Those are my findings. I spent 11 hours restoring 10.15.13 from Time Machine.
Well..everything has to go eventually. With so many alternative ways to run older OS's as an option. that pays the way.... usually.
Unless your confronted by that one aggressive user. The safer haven for me is running older OS's and be educated.
Understandable, allot don't recognse that, and instead want Apple to keep them safe.
Unless your confronted by that one aggressive user. The safer haven for me is running older OS's and be educated.
Understandable, allot don't recognse that, and instead want Apple to keep them safe.
So I guess all those unending posts about how secure the Mac and OSX are is baloney?
I upgraded my 7,1 from X.15.1 to X.15.3 and it killed my ASUS card/SSD (the system recognized and I could use the SSD in X.15.1 but when I upgraded to X.15.3 it was no longer recognized or visible in Disk Utility). I wasted a ton of time trying to "downgrade" to X.15.1 from Time Machine only to have all of my programs unusable. Spent @ an hour with a support rep, then her supervisor and still couldn't get the issue resolved. Ultimately, I had to re-install X.15.1 from the internet to get my system working again and I now have my ASUS card/SSD back.
Looking back at Apple's "ground breaking" 1984 commercial (yes I was around then), it turns out Apple has become the monolith they were railing against in that commercial.
With regard to the App Store, it's a joke. I spent another 45 minutes with a rep trying to log into the App Store. Ultimately, he said I had been locked out by their "automated" security system and there was NOTHING he could do. I would need to wait @ 8 hours for their automated system to unlock my account then try again. I contacted Blackmagic Design directly and was able to download the software I needed directly from them - and haven't bothered to waste any more time trying to get into the App Store.
I upgraded my 7,1 from X.15.1 to X.15.3 and it killed my ASUS card/SSD (the system recognized and I could use the SSD in X.15.1 but when I upgraded to X.15.3 it was no longer recognized or visible in Disk Utility). I wasted a ton of time trying to "downgrade" to X.15.1 from Time Machine only to have all of my programs unusable. Spent @ an hour with a support rep, then her supervisor and still couldn't get the issue resolved. Ultimately, I had to re-install X.15.1 from the internet to get my system working again and I now have my ASUS card/SSD back.
Looking back at Apple's "ground breaking" 1984 commercial (yes I was around then), it turns out Apple has become the monolith they were railing against in that commercial.
With regard to the App Store, it's a joke. I spent another 45 minutes with a rep trying to log into the App Store. Ultimately, he said I had been locked out by their "automated" security system and there was NOTHING he could do. I would need to wait @ 8 hours for their automated system to unlock my account then try again. I contacted Blackmagic Design directly and was able to download the software I needed directly from them - and haven't bothered to waste any more time trying to get into the App Store.
I think in my case the only extension that was loaded and not from Apple was Little Snitch. I will query it with them.
As a Hackintosh user this is worrying. Of course Apple owe Hackintosh users nothing and don't have to consider our needs so we can't complain. However most Hackintoshes rely on Lilu/WhateverGreen etc that are kexts.
Is there a way to disable the notifications? It warns me about legacy extensions on my 2012 MBP, but there is no future version of macOS for this mac so it makes no sense...