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After installing this second beta, I found that Safari, Mail, Notes, and TextEdit all QUIT just after launching. Had to switch to Chrome and SublimeText. How can a beta be released with such deficiencies? Is it because my MBP has an i9 Intel chip?
Yes, multiple Feedback filed! Feedback also Quits but is (barely) usable…
 
Is there an off switch for the glass nonsense? It's a usability nightmare.
I would hope not. Maintaining legacy features and code is not Apple’s priority and often causes issues. You are, of course, free to not upgrade to Tahoe. That's your decision to make. In the same vein Macworld is reporting that macOS 26 Tahoe drops support for Firewire. The IEEE 1394 format is no longer in any major use but there will be user complaints about legacy hardware like cameras (photo/video) that use the IEEE 1394 format and legacy Firewire drives as well. My understanding is that the current Thunderbolt 3->Thunderbolt 2->Firewire 800 adapters will no longer work in macOS 26. Time marches on.
 
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I have been using it and I understand that this is a very early developer beta, (I'll honestly probably hop over to the public beta later) but this is a much bigger change than I previously thought but a lot of things still can be tweaked obviously.

I am glad that they reverted the little Mac Man as to me it felt like disrespecting the brand almost. I mean after Apple itself, Mac is it's oldest product.

As someone else mentioned, dark mode is completely broken in Safari in an almost jarring way. Some other apps I use are broken, but it isn't a huge deal for now as I am sure they will update their own apps shortly to work with it.

A few other things I feel that don't make sense is just unusual separations in the design, lines that just seem to be there to be there, and the dock seems oddly smaller and spaced out now.

Not everything is terrible though. They definitely have some interesting improvements with AI (although Siri is still Siri), and a lot of the other design flourishes actually don't look bad at all.
 
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