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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur With Fresh Design, Control Center, Safari Privacy Report, Messages Updates, Maps Overhaul and More
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Horrible UI. Toolbar is too thick and takes too much vertical space.
best example that comes to mind immediately is sidecar --- there were (are) apps that filled this need, but it became a feature. why keep garbage in library? so goes for that piece of software you tried and didn't really like it... not saying you NEED to do this, but I very much prefer it and thats reason enough for me.
I have more free space now than I did a few hours ago, everything works the way it should, and icloud did most of the work.
I am a bootcamp user as well. Other than some launch day glitches (and forgetting to allow my mac to boot to external media before nuking it -- oops!), it's also a clean install.
I'll spare you the sob story about how parallels desktop pollutes macos by infecting every corner of your disk with some artifact...
Have you ever experienced the annoyance that each time you plug in at work, or at home, or one of any of your various hoteling spaces OSX (and now macOS) seems to think it's some brand new device? have you ever tried to get macOS to forget the 'special' background it thinks it needs to apply each time you plug in another display?? I don't know about you, but 5 copies of the same network adapter begging apple to figure out how to make macOS forget the desktop picture i used on that one monitor that one time for fun is, again, reason enough for me.
Sure enough, clean install -- poof. no more. gone. reason enough for me.
I have no doubt there are knowledge gaps in my reasoning, and some of the 'snappiness' that's returned to my almost $3000 computer is probably my imagination, but rather than spending my time learning terminal commands and the inner workings of the operating system, i have found a way to overcome it -- one that i happen to look forward to.
Anyone who downloaded full installer check build number in system report software if its 20B28 check your installer the one I Downloaded Last night was version (Right click Get info) 16.1.02 the one I downloaded today is 16.1.03 see one on right is correct
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Sounds like you were previously running the beta and downloaded the update, as it is that size.
I didn’t notice this change, but it looks like they want the menu items aligned with the menu title now. Can’t have both things aligned at once without adjusting the spacing, so one of the alignments has to give. Personal preferences will vary, but I think it looks better this way...probably because I saw it this way first after needing to compare it to Catalina to see what the heck people were talking about.
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Ops, the solution is here: terminal: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
I was able to successfully download the update using terminal! Finally!
Code:
REDACTED@REDACTED ~ % sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.0.1
Password:
Downloading and installing 11.0.1 installer
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
Installing: 19.0%SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
Install finished successfullyI had that pro even got new installer and it was still RC 2 finally got it this morning UK time don’t know how someone else misted they had a small delta update. Get VMware fusion player create a virtual Mac Catalina then update that to get new installer right click get info and it should be version 16.1.03 created nov 6 or 7
Apple should have waited till next week and launched at midnight on Tuesday then by time zones it would have had less impact and it would have Avoided Friday the 13th completely. (My sense of hummer Do not take too serious)
Really glad you pointed this out, what a total pathetic waste of space, i need as much useful space as possible on my 12" Macbook.
That alone is enough to stop me downloading Big Sur, I am not very interested in any of the new features anyway.
sorry I have eye site and orientation problems I try my best. as long as you understood what I meant sorry.
I wasn't at home last night, so i was kinda bummed that I couldn't download and install Big Sur the minute it came out. So kind of Apple to wait for me to release it until I came back home 😁
I don't get you guys that are saying this. Didn't you notice they blended the windowframe with the toolbar, *saving* space? In fact, what this does is finally frees the UI from the Windowframe elements which date back in UI design 35 years. We gained so much space back from this. This should become the standard across platforms and likely will.
