The real hero's are the every day people in here who put the Beta's on their only computers as soon as they launch.
I salute you, you have balls as big as church bells.
I salute you, you have balls as big as church bells.
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macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
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Yeah, I lost some great Steam games around that time as well. Many of them were never upgraded to 64 bit so now they're lost for me on the Mac platform.
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If you are intersted in the new screen savers, then you are (by definition) the kind of person who is interested in screen savers. This also means you may be the kind of person who runs third-party screensavers (e.g. ones not made by Apple).
Public Service Announcement: in adding these new screensavers to Sonoma, Apple managed to totally break support for third-party screensavers.
So if you try to run non-Apple screensavers in Sonoma, you can look forward to all sorts of fun malfunctions, including blank screens, tons of dead/orphaned processes using zero cpu, orphaned processes using 100% CPU. I've even had the window manager crash completely, sending me back to the login screen.
It's... not good.
Apple is aware of the issues, but has no workarounds at this time, and appears to be intent on releasing Sonoma nonetheless...
Public Service Announcement: in adding these new screensavers to Sonoma, Apple managed to totally break support for third-party screensavers.
So if you try to run non-Apple screensavers in Sonoma, you can look forward to all sorts of fun malfunctions, including blank screens, tons of dead/orphaned processes using zero cpu, orphaned processes using 100% CPU. I've even had the window manager crash completely, sending me back to the login screen.
It's... not good.
Apple is aware of the issues, but has no workarounds at this time, and appears to be intent on releasing Sonoma nonetheless...
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I'll be sorely tempted to upgrade, but I will have to let my work computer sit with Ventura until I can be sure there are no issues with my mission critical apps like Illustrator and InDesign -- as well as the Google Drive client which we use to sync files.
Anyone on the betas using any of that software? Curious to hear how it's going. Thanks!
Anyone on the betas using any of that software? Curious to hear how it's going. Thanks!
I could go back to the 10.2-10.6 cadence, for sure
Some features are good, but the widgets are just annoying. It's an okay update, nothing significant for the majority of users that I have found.
Please please please Game Mode knock it out of the park in the coming updates!!
Just upgraded my M1 to Ventura last week. Even though Sonoma has some nice personalization features, I'm gonna wait a while, like until September 2024.
At this rate, 2021 iMac M1 will be Vintage or Obsolete in no time. LOL
That's not exactly right. They made it drastically easier for devs to port non-native games to Mac. We won't see the fruits of this for another quarter or two.
I was wondering if Baldur's Gate 3 was accomplished with this new tech, but it runs on macOS 10.15 "Catalina," so evidently not.
Desktop widgets…I’m sure they can be helpful but I can’t help but feel like it’s a reiteration of Windows V***a
They really do need to update that hardware
That was my thinking and it can't be too different, but there will be some difference even if it is slight as RC2 includes the Feedback Assistant app. It's not like the iOS RCs where they could be (and are) released as-is.
Time will tell if Wednesday's release is the same build without Feedback Assistant or another one with fixes but I'd probably hold off.
The Sonoma wallpaper still looks weird to me. I don't know why, maybe it's the green?
Didn't really see anything that made me think feature x would be a welcomed addition to my daily use. I am sure there will be more found nuggets in the coming days.
Just thought, because they are actively selling m1 in the air and iMac does that mean the 5 years of new os compatibility for older Mac’s starts from after it goes off sale? I.e an m1 Mac should be able to run the new Mac OS that comes out in 2028?
I've been running the betas on my test system to verify my production software. I've had no problems at all and will upgrade my test system on Tuesday and test my software again. If all is good, then I'll update my MacBook Pro later in the week and my Studio in a couple of weeks.
Hopefully they have full backups.
I'm just in the habit of testing my production stuff before upgrading my production systems.
Looking forward to Sonoma! I don't really care much about the new features as much as I care about stability, but I can definitely see myself using Web Apps and Profiles.
Besides those, I really hope Sonoma would be more of a stable, Snow Leopard type of release. I had quite a few bugs with Ventura and was not very happy with it. Can't wait to finally upgrade from it
Besides those, I really hope Sonoma would be more of a stable, Snow Leopard type of release. I had quite a few bugs with Ventura and was not very happy with it. Can't wait to finally upgrade from it
I am wondering how many apps have not been compatible in the past, say 7 years?
Just wondering what overwhelming updates your Windows machine has? The last major updated feature for Windows was in 2021 when they added multi-camera support for Windows Hello. Okay. This is so underwhelming then. 🙄
Apple can't win when half the people want amazing updates and the other half don't want them for several years.
Agree. It has done this forever. If it automatically resorted when resizing the window, they'd complain about that too.
I have not had a single problem with iOS17 or Apple Watch 10. For Watch 10, other than people complaining about battery issues (which happens on every release.. ever...) the only other complaints I have seen have been the interface changes, which I actually love. What devastating problems have you encountered?
Yeah me too. iOS 17 has been unexpectedly very stable for me so far, I even feel like it has slightly improved the battery life for me. No issues with it at all so far.
Definitely looking forward to Sonoma 👍🏻
So we had widgets in 2005….Apple said “no this is dumb” and got rid of them…..now in 2023 widgets are a new thing….again…oook