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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of macOS Monterey to Developers
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Would be interesting to hear of this problem occurs on M1 hardware too. My M1 mini is connected to monitor with DP.
I've been running Monterey solely in a VM (VMWare Fusion Player 12) since beta 4 as I've got an unsupported late 2013 MacBook Pro. The VM originally had Mojave installed which I snapshotted to be able to roll back if necessary and then installed the beta profile onto. Betas 1 to 3 all went through the install process but booted to a black screen. From beta 4 Monterey installed and was usable, if a bit sluggish although betas 7 and 8 do seem to have improved the performance a bit.
I just hope that if and when the full installer is released for beta 8, that the SharedSupport fiasco will be resolved.
For those not aware of this, in beta 7 a major part of the full installer was missing and there were various ways of fixing it - some more successful than others - and until you fixed it you couldn't make a bootable usb.
For beta 7 you downloaded an 11.7GB full installer only to end up with a 34.8MB installer app - only to then have to re-download the 11.7GB SharedSupport to fix it.
I do hope that apple won't say something stupid like it's a new feature, not a bug - because if it is a feature, it is a REALLY STUPID FEATURE!
For those not aware of this, in beta 7 a major part of the full installer was missing and there were various ways of fixing it - some more successful than others - and until you fixed it you couldn't make a bootable usb.
For beta 7 you downloaded an 11.7GB full installer only to end up with a 34.8MB installer app - only to then have to re-download the 11.7GB SharedSupport to fix it.
I do hope that apple won't say something stupid like it's a new feature, not a bug - because if it is a feature, it is a REALLY STUPID FEATURE!
Dunno, after the awful everything I had with MacOS 11 "Big Slurp", I have had nothing to say but "Thank God"
(or, if one wants to be really accurate, "Thank the software engineers at Apple") for the MacOS 12 betas which made my Mac Mini 2018 behave itself again.
Having said that: I don't use any of the in-built Apple apps beyond TextEdit and the Calculator.
And beta 8 is not "here" in Bulgaria yet, but as beta 7 is super I can "cope" until it arrives.
(or, if one wants to be really accurate, "Thank the software engineers at Apple") for the MacOS 12 betas which made my Mac Mini 2018 behave itself again.
Having said that: I don't use any of the in-built Apple apps beyond TextEdit and the Calculator.
And beta 8 is not "here" in Bulgaria yet, but as beta 7 is super I can "cope" until it arrives.
For some weird reason, I've been running Microsoft Edge on my M1 (naive) and iPhone and really like it. Can't get on with Safari for some reason.
Great, and yet most people have the dock at the bottom instead of the side, wasting much more vertical space than could ever be reclaimed by making Safari less usable.
The dock on auto hide means it takes up no space regardless of where it is on the screen. You are also assuming that Safari is somehow less usable, yet the dev tools remain near the best and not wasting space on having the tabs on a separate row does not impact usability at all while giving more vertical space that was lost to the new macOS 11 UI changes.
I still can't get "Copy Link" to show up in Safari's Share menu. This one seems so simple.
Even on Safari 14.1.2, 'Copy Link' never shows up even though it is checked in Sys Prefs.
What have you done...now it happens to me as well
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Thankfully, I am not experiencing these issues. Using a Apple 27" Thunderbolt Display attached to a 2020 27" Intel iMac. All seems to be working properly under beta 8.
I am on the other end, I hate the way it worked before, seems like a huge improvement.