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macOS Big Sur Features: Everything New in Today's Release
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Big Sur doesn't have Spaces? To me, your comment implies Apple "ditched" the feature in the past. Catalina includes Spaces, though it has been poorly crammed into Mission Control thus initial configuration/enabling is confusing and clumsy compared to macOS versions that touted the capability.
Apple already forced us to convert from Dashboard to the sidebar-style Today widgets, which are okay but certainly not as convenient in serval cases as the fullscreen Dashboard.
I'm not going to be happy if Spaces is gone and I need to do a physical multi-monitor setup.
Apple removed the grid overlay of Spaces years ago for the current implementation that is clumsy. I’ll find a link. The Spaces of yesterday was a superior version.
Here’s a link to TotalSpaces and what Spaces used to do:
PhaseOne specifically recommends against upgrading to Big Sur until they release and update for it, and I’m not going to risk a mission critical application just to play with the new bells and whistles. I’ll stick with Mojave a little longer.
That being said, I’ve been testing Big Sur on a secondary drive for months, and it seems way more stable than Catalina ever was for me, so once C1 is updated I’ll have no problem upgrading.
That must have been a few major macOS versions ago because I don't recall it at the moment. Even so, I guess, I've adjusted. Besides having macOS auto-shift to the appropriate Space when selecting an app/window, I use the key combo Control + left (arrow) / right (arrow) to move among them.Apple removed the grid overlay of Spaces years ago for the current implementation that is clumsy. I’ll find a link. The Spaces of yesterday was a superior version.
Here’s a link to TotalSpaces and what Spaces used to do:
Actual Reaction: Says he, a "newbie", without stating the reason *why* with some other totally unbiased observations. No real reason for you to be here, then, right?
Hoped for Reaction: Oh man, you're absolutely right! Big Sur is s***! Thank god you showed up, man. I almost wasted my time downloading and upgrading. Thanks to you, I've realized my error in judgment and will never buy another Apple product again based on your wonderfully shrewd and insightful observations!
I don't ever plan to upgrade past Mojave. It will break too many things I need
Yes. My 2014 Mac Mini (still on Mojave) just popped up a notification in Software Update advising me to upgrade directly to Big Sur.
EDIT: Since typing this, the download has progressed from 0 to 2.4 GB, with an estimated finish that had been about 10 minutes. And then the slowness kicks in. It just cannot get past that ~2.4 GB point.
anyone else getting this? File was almost complete with download, then this:
Guess I need to somehow delete the download and start over? Keep getting error message when I try and start the update each time. So, back to being stuck
anyone know where the download is kept? Guess I'll clear it and start again, if that's possible...
It download 11.01 of the 12.18 GB, then the fail occurred, also curious if the kill point is the same for others... 11.01 GB...