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Apple Launches macOS Sequoia With iPhone Mirroring, Passwords App, Window Tiling Updates and More

poematik13 said:
Updating to a new macOS is always a bad time. Tons of bugs and workflows breaking randomly.

Never update macOS unless you get a new mac and you're forced to
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Terrible advice.

It's true that "point-0" releases should be avoided by people who don't know what they're doing… but by the "point-three" releases, you're missing out on tons of bug fixes and security patches.

The path-to-happiness for most Apple users is "ignore releases between September and October, but otherwise auto-install everything," but that requires too much effort for most people.
 
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I think I’ll wait. I always do a fresh install of any new OS version. I want to make sure it’s stable before I get that started.
 
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Who green-ligthed the ERASE DISK option right next to Eject???

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Eric_WVGG said:
Terrible advice.
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Nah, I know exactly what Im saying and doing. Been in the mac environment longer than you

macOS has been trash since Lion, where they started prioritizing features and bloat (to impress shareholders) over optimization and fixes.

I always stay one major release version behind, or update with new hardware, whichever comes first.
 
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poematik13 said:
Nah, I know exactly what Im saying and doing. Been in the mac environment longer than you

macOS has been trash since Lion, where they started prioritizing features and bloat (to impress shareholders) over optimization and fixes.

I always stay one major release version behind, or update with new hardware, whichever comes first.
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I've literally just gone through nearly 100 test cases I have here and it works fine. I am happy to use it.
 
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Any idea if after upgrading. If one boots into the bootloader, the OS for recovery to be downloaded after being Activated is going to be Sequoia or Sonoma?
 
While I would never update the OS in the middle of some important work, I've done major updates of macOS maybe eight times and never once had a problem. YMMV
 
Just updated, and I have pretty much no internet connection even though I'm connected to my normal wifi. Anyone else having network issues?

edit - internet seems to be working, but Firefox is 100% broken. Won't load anything.
 
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Could anyone check whether quicklook is working with docx and xlsx files after upgrade ? Many thanks !
 
cjsuk said:
Yes Paragon NTFS is. It works fine!
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Interesting... what Paragon NTFS version? I didn't get a MacOS final update over RC, so I assume both are the same and Paragon NTFS got got broken since RC. M1 MacBook Air.
 
A fun surprise when I updated to Sonoma 14.7

1 of my old Expresses that I couldn't get to work, came to life again - wonderful!

I had almost accepted that it was dead and put the speaker cord into the MacStudio in the headphone jack, and it worked at a lower volume than with the Express.
I did a restart earlier and it was no difference. Thank you Apple!

Hope it still works in macOS 15 - I-m waiting to .1 anyway
 
Royksöpp said:
I think I’ll wait. I always do a fresh install of any new OS version. I want to make sure it’s stable before I get that started.
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I've upgraded and/or migrated my OS ever since I used the OS X Public Beta on My PowerMac G3 in 2000. No stability issues. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
 
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Eric_WVGG said:
Has anyone here been on the beta? What's your impressions?

I feel like these feature-driven updates (as opposed to the ones with big under-the-hood changes) are usually quite safe… not looking forward to the changes on the security model.
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Unreliable on my Intel Mac Pro 2019 with dual W6800X Duo cards. Constant GPU related kernel panics that never happen on Sonoma. It is okay on single W6800 32Gb cards.

I didn’t see anything referencing fixes for those crashes so won’t install it. Guess they don’t care about users of their second most expensive GPU.
 
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Update took a long time. Could be the slower WiFi at the cafe as it took much longer to download. But it took nearly 15 minutes to install. But it's working fine so far except for a bunch of permissions I had to allow.
 
Cirillo Gherardo said:
I always laugh at these people who do "fresh installs". You must not even use the thing. I haven't done a fresh install in probably 5 or 6 years. Way too many things to redo if I had to do that.
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true. The only way I would do a fresh install is if I started having all sorts of problems that can't be fixed any other way -- hasn't happened yet. I've done that a few times with Windows over the decades.
 
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