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High Sierra WTF

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Damn they rushed through the little features fast. Barely anything new. I'm excited about the APFS for sure but wow nothing about better Siri integration, nothing about Dark Mode UI.

I doubt we can expect any major features until fall release?
 
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Dwalls90 said:
This release was definitely more about behind-the-scenes improvements. Changing filesystems is a big deal.
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This. I am ok with that b.c I honestly experience bugs pretty often on Sierra. Just fix something before jumping to a new OS.
 
sunapple said:
Isn't that already available?
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I think he's referring to a system-wide dark mode, not just for the menu bar and Dock or certain apps. Developers would of course need to support this in their apps, and I pretty much gave up hope and stopped expecting it with this release.
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Dwalls90 said:
This release was definitely more about behind-the-scenes improvements. Changing filesystems is a big deal.
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Apple File System is definitely the biggest feature of this OS. Even the OP mentioned that.
 
Don't care about the name .. I'm glad they're working on *behind the scenes* features, as opposed to just more eye candy!

APFS is ' Optional ' at this point.
 
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lol what a complete joke. what is this "update"? I'd be ashamed to go up on stage and pitch this thinly-veiled point update.

there's not a single new feature announced that isn't very trivial (APFS is already available and has been available for some time).

no dark mode is total kick in the nuts.
 
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He kind of lowered our expectations by saying they were going to build on Sierra and refine it; but there was nothing appealing to me at all in High Sierra. Even the name is a joke.
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imacken said:
Does it install with APFS by default? Do we get a choice?
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Default file system from install.
 
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If the UI is smooth, I'm totally fine. Right now it's much slower than W10, even on a new mac pro. iTunes animations a frequently laggy, like many windows while resizing.

But yeah, the features I would've looked forward to are:

- Improved Siri, merged with Spotlight.
- UIKit (could've been possibly the biggest advancement)
- Native window snapping

Xcode 9 is about speed and fixing too, I don't think it's bad at all. If we will see the improvements I'm going to be very happy about this release.
 
I hope that WebRTC is optional, like WebGL. There are some privacy concerns due to IP leakage caused by existing WebRTC implementations in other browsers.

Does anyone know whether Apple is switching users to case-sensitive APFS?
 
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Dwalls90 said:
This release was definitely more about behind-the-scenes improvements. Changing filesystems is a big deal.
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The last filesystem change was with Mac OS 8.1 (January 1998), which supported HFS+ for the first time.
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KALLT said:
...Does anyone know whether Apple is switching users to case-sensitive APFS?
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You can choose the conversion before you install High Sierra.
 
This isn't anything new:

Leopard->Snow Leopard
Lion->Mountain Lion->Mavericks (this took two generations to get stable b/c Lion was such a mess)
Yosemite->El Capitan
Sierra->High Sierra

Snow Leopard is always the one mentioned simply because it had a long life cycle and was VERY refined. People forget the first several versions were very unstable like most other releases, but overall it was the best version of OS X for its time.
 
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zooole said:
If the UI is smooth, I'm totally fine. Right now it's much slower than W10, even on a new mac pro. iTunes animations a frequently laggy, like many windows while resizing...
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The UI in DPs is usually a lot slower than in the final version. Do not expect to see Metal 2 improvements in the first DPs of High Sierra!
 
zedsdead said:
...Snow Leopard is always the one mentioned simply because it had a long life cycle and was VERY refined. People forget the first several versions were very unstable like most other releases, but overall it was the best version of OS X for its time.
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...and Apple uses the GCD (Grand Central Dispatch) API to optimize the performance of apps for their new 18-Core Xeon iMac Pro. GCD appeared first in Snow Leopard and Apple optimized apps for Snow Leopard via GCD.
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KALLT said:
You can choose between case-sensitive/case-insensitive?
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Not at this time, only between HFS+ and APFS, if you install the OS on a HFS+ volume.
 
Mr. Retrofire said:
Not at this time, only between HFS+ and APFS, if you install the OS on a HFS+ volume.
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Nobody seems to know what happens when you do the conversion. I am really anxious to know whether Apple finally makes the switch to case-sensitivity.
 
I already run case-sensitive HFS, so APFS will not be a problem. I assume you have to restore from a Time Machine backup to switch to APFS. It took years to get ZFS into perfect shape and APFS has some of the same features, so I shudder to think of the potential bugs lurking in APFS.
 
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Mr. Retrofire said:
The UI in DPs is usually a lot slower than in the final version. Do not expect to see Metal 2 improvements in the first DPs of High Sierra!
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Nah, I will be patient, if it's stable, I will install a public beta for Xcode 9 but that's all. Although I don't know if Xcode betas have public releases or only dev ones (sorry, I know it's off topic).
 
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