Imagine MacOS SE

[Bazza1]

Imagine a Lite version of MacOS -

1. Imagine an OS that didn't have a bunch of "Squirrel!" apps built-in trying to justify AI, or aping features of / or connectivity to iOS.
2. Imagine having the ability to choose a simpler GUI - less horsepower involved. Not just a hobbled version of current one.
3. Imagine - much like the Store for iWorks and Garageband - have Books, Freeform, iMovie, iPhone Mirroring, Games, Maps, Music, Phone Booth, Phone, Photos, Podcasts, Safari, Stocks and TV all available for free download - if and when you need them.
4. Imagine while keeping the sync to Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, Notes and Reminders, an iCloud account would not be required.
5. Imagine the last - oh, say - decades worth of 'known issues' and bugs actually being resolved. This is a company that builds its own OS for its own hardware. Excuses hard to justify.

Time spent to develop a quality OS for those who want and need that, rather than finding a new way every couple of months to appease shareholders with gimmicks to create user churn.

Imagine.

 

[rebelo]

Dream on. Never gonna happen. The concept of a lite OS has been running around for 30 years with Windows. Every decade I update an article I wrote 30 years ago about "Windows Zero", my dream OS before moving to Apple. At least on Windows, there are a lot of third-party tools to reduce, slim and optimize Windows, including creating a new installation procedure to slim everything down. These tools actually work fine, although the last time I tested was on Windows 10. In Apple's ecosystem, we don't even have these third-party tools. Apple would never let them.

 

[chown33]

We called it "Snow Leopard".

 

[!!!]

I'd love to be able to uninstall Safari, Chess, Freeform, Home, AI crap, News, Stocks, Photo Booth, Podcasts, Reminders, Siri and the associated frameworks for those. I debated adding a comment on the recent BSR news article, asking why Apple doesn't actually split its OS and allow independent installs of different components. Like a package manager. Where apple can just update Safari instead of the whole OS, and users can choose what they want on their Macs.

With older versions of OS X you used to be able to selectively disable language packs and printer software. Why do we need to install all the languages today, when we have internet access for the rare case where one would need to install another language? I remember using Monolingual to remove langs in later versions of OS X, from both the OS and apps, and I saved a few gig.

Imagine while keeping the sync to Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, Notes and Reminders, an iCloud account would not be required.

I don't understand how you could sync stuff without some sort of account. Maybe iTunes still works for this?

 

[Bazza1]

....I don't understand how you could sync stuff without some sort of account. Maybe iTunes still works for this?

I'm not sure how instantaneously people need all that sync'd info to show up across their devices, but you simply use Bluetooth or a shared Wi-Fi to do the sync when all within proximity.