I bought a new M5 MacBook Air and want to return it because of Tahoe.

[Nik]

I just bought an M5 MacBook Air. I like the hardware but really dislike MacOS Tahoe. The user interface is unfinished, distracting and it wastes space. I think other people covered these issues in detail.

The thing is: I thought that I would be able to downgrade to Sequoia somehow, unfortunately I have not found a way to do so for an M5 machine.

Hence, I am on the verge of sending the machine back for a refund.

Has anyone come across a solution to downgrade an M5 machine to Sequoia? Has anyone else considered NOT upgrading to new hardware due to the lackluster MacOS?

 

[BSDnostalgia]

You can turn off/adjust things also, which helps. Try to make some adjustments before you return. No way to turn off the rounded window corners, unfortunately. Yet. I'm hoping there will be a way before too long. Regardless, some of it is dumb, but, I don't really notice any more.

 

[dmr727]

There's no way to downgrade, so your best bet is to return your Air and find a good deal on an M4 model. That's still a pretty rockstar machine (I have one, and love it).

 

[gilby101]

Old versions of macOS are never updated to supported newer hardware. In your case Sequoia was no longer fully supported when your MBA was released.

If you want stay with a Mac, I suggest you need to find ways of making the Liquid Glass interface tolerable.

 

[Nik]

Well, apparently a downgrade is indeed not possible. 🙁

 

[pax-eterna]

tbh, I really do not see the issue with LG...seems perfectly acceptable to me, and certainly nothing to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" attitude I seem to keep reading about here 🙂