MP 7,1 MacOS Tahoe on a Mac Pro 7,1

[penguinlust]

I know eventually I will install a Tahoe partition on my 7,1 as it's the last version of the OS the 7,1 will support. My question is, is it ready for prime time now? I figured I'd wait until the release of 26.1 before pulling the trigger, but is there any reason to avoid 26.0.1?
I'm on Sonoma 14.8.1 now; skipped Sequoia as I typically upgrade my OS every two years. Everything just works for the most part., so I'm in no hurry, but I suspect it's inevitable that I upgrade -- just want minimal drama.

 

[Bigwaff]

I'm in no hurry, but I suspect it's inevitable that I upgrade -- just want minimal drama.

I’m waiting. I find Sequoia to be rock solid. Plus, Liquid Glass just seems half-baked to me.

 

[Boppi]

The forums are fraught with stories of how 26.0.1 messed up this, that or the other. Since you mention you don't have a real itch for 26 point anything just yet I'd say hang tight and wait a few weeks after 26.1 goes live.

 

[flowrider]

For Me - I've been on Tahoe since the first Developer Beta. All issues seem to be fixed. It's solid and I luv it 👍

Lou

 

[avro707]

I know eventually I will install a Tahoe partition on my 7,1 as it's the last version of the OS the 7,1 will support. My question is, is it ready for prime time now? I figured I'd wait until the release of 26.1 before pulling the trigger, but is there any reason to avoid 26.0.1?
I'm on Sonoma 14.8.1 now; skipped Sequoia as I typically upgrade my OS every two years. Everything just works for the most part., so I'm in no hurry, but I suspect it's inevitable that I upgrade -- just want minimal drama.

I have the latest version on two 7,1 machines and it is working fine on both of them. I know that doesn't mean much in the face of all the negative reports elsewhere.

 

[SDAVE]

I'm on 26.1 Beta 4 and it looks alright. 0.1 was slower. Definitely feels a bit slower than Sequoia. If it's a production machine maybe wait for .3?

Since macOS 26 is the last macOS supported for 7,1, I assume Apple will get it to a great place.

 

[penguinlust]

So I installed the release build of 26.1 about 3 weeks ago and so far it mostly works.

Some observations and comments:

The dock does not deal well with items on different drive partitions, forgetting them occasionally.

Some of the new icons are taking some getting used to.

The AMD RX 6900 XT driver seems fairly solid.

Getting my old ML-3312 Samsung laser printer working (HP took them over and rolled the driver into theirs) was a chore. Minor drama -- I hadn't realized Samsung had sold their printing division to HP, but the generic HP driver provided with the OS for the LaserJets just worked.

The column view tweak to automatically resize to the filename width is something I've been asking for since the NeXTSTEP 2/3 days (i.e. back when the underlying BSD layer was known as "Tahoe" -- not kidding). Mostly works too.

Music force migrating my library to the new version and deleting the old one was annoying -- didn't expect them to botch this like they did. This was really the only major piece of drama in the migration as I was working on a playlist in Sonoma and the migration made *everything* disappear when I booted back into Sonoma. Thankfully it was completely intact in Tahoe, but I can't go back.

I suspect this OS won't actually be mostly done until 26.3, but that's normal. That said, it's livable, and the column view change alone makes it more usable. You don't need to hold off if you're on a 7,1, but there's no need to rush into it either.

 

[reader50]

Autosizing Columns is in Sequoia too, but it's a hidden feature. I turned it on with Onyx, and like it.

 

[SDAVE]

I have the latest version on two 7,1 machines and it is working fine on both of them. I know that doesn't mean much in the face of all the negative reports elsewhere.

How is your performance so far? Mine becomes fairly laggy with Liquid Glass and "clear" icons enabled. So I just enabled "reduce transparency" and disable "clear" icons (using Default in appearance) and it feels more like Sequoia.

I'm on .2 Beta 3.