High Sierra the buggiest macOS ever?

[tomtendo]

My iMac has never frozen (actual froze, with forced shutdowns) so much since macOS High Sierra (I am on the latest build too).

Also, Chrome and Slack seem to hate it too with them always goes berzerk with windows and text going bananas. (I will update/post a screenshot when it happens again).

Never have I experienced such a ****** OS from Apple.

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[hwojtek]

No. I am running HS on 4 computers from a Macbook Air to a Mac Pro. Perhaps you should backup your data and install from scratch, making sure your RAM and disks are in working order beforehand.

 

[Princess Cake]

My Mac was flat out hanging every 6 seconds. No matter what action I did it resulted in the spinning beachball. Eventually I formatted the drive (after making a full TM backup of course) reinstalled High Sierra and my Mac's been running tip-top ever since, I'm back to my biggest problem with it being that it lacks the skeumorphic UI I want back so damn bad. But anyway, took me about 6 hours to do it all so I just played video games and watched movies all morning.

Its a pain in the butt but sometimes reinstalling from scratch is just the thing to solve all your problems.

 

[hawkeye_a]

I have not upgraded. This is the first time I have actually been "afraid" to upgrade. It's mostly to do with the change in default file system(no small feat IMHO). Surprisingly, i wasn't this worried when they made the switch from PowerPC to Intel or 32-bit to 64-bit.

I'll probably hold of on upgrading. And i really wish they would put a freeze on new features, and just debug & optimize and trim the fat. Personally i'd like to see a smaller footprint on the startup disk, lower memory usage and snappier performance.

I remember when a new OS meant better performance on existing hardware. Not sure when that changed, but it seems like these days a new OS serves to make existing hardware obsolete faster.

 

[Princess Cake]

You don't HAVE to update to APFS when you install High Sierra. I didn't install it at all, having files copy/paste faster isn't worth the risk of ruining a million other things that work correctly right now.

 

[prisstratton]

I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with this upgrade. My experience has been quite the opposite. Everything that you are talking about is very much what I experienced when I tried to update to Yosemite and El Capitan, they were totally horrible for me. So much so, that I did not even look at Sierra and just settled back with my Mavericks installation.

I jumped on board with High Sierra Public Beta 6 (because of security concerns with Mavericks) and everything ran totally perfect for me. After the official release I upgraded my Mavericks installation to High Sierra and everything is running great. All around this has been a totally positive experience for me.

I am not sure what accounts for these wide swings in user experience's, but I am happy to be on the upside for a change........and hope you find a resolution to your problems soon.

 

[BurgDog]

I spent a month trying to get it to work properly and that included fresh installs on the fully wiped 1GB internal SSD on my 2013 Mac Pro with nothing copied from my backups, just using icloud for all my data.

I finally had enough, wiped my internal disk again and reinstalled from scratch the latest Sierra version. The sense of relief and comfort of having something that worked again was almost palpable.

I have an external Thunderbolt SSD that I have High Sierra installed on that I do test runs with. I plan to keep it upgraded to the latest released versions and when the bugs I saw go away, install High Sierra on my main disk. It took until the .6 version of Sierra for it to become as good as it currently is. High Sierra may take as long.

 

[flowrider]

No issues for me

Lou

 

[SaSaSushi]

It's a common refrain with every new OS release how horrible it is along with the advice to hold off until the fifth or sixth revision when it will finally become good and "usable".

On the other hand, there are users (raising hand) who are experiencing absolutely stable performance with no issues whatsoever from revision 0.

I'd caution against believing the hype. Have a backup (always advised) and upgrade with confidence.

 

[tomtendo]

I formatted the iMac and started fresh. Seems to be so far working much better and spotlight seems to actually work now without beach balling and/or not finding apps that are clearly on my computer. But as far as freezing.. so far only one work day of use, but no issues.