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Is it dumbing it down if it still has all the same functionality?

The current UI is literally just a grid of icons. Are we losing features?
Didn’t you hear? Icon views are smart and lists on the side are now dumb.

I guess this makes Mac Finder dumb and iPad home screens smart.

Or something. I don’t know. I can’t keep up.
 
Well when I had a peek and admittedly that was on PB1, you couldn't even set custom DNS servers on the network interfaces. At least there were no options for it that I could find. Not sure if that has changed tbh. But since then I have not seen a lot of positive feedback here and elsewhere regarding the System Settings app either.
I was just watching this guy's comparison on YouTube as this is my first time seeing backlash to the change:


Looks like setting custom DNS servers is still possible if you were still interested. (05:59)
 
Worth pointing out that the twitter screenshot actually shows a software update is available and therefore this isn't the latest beta, so article headline is potentially misleading.
 
It won't be long before you can only install apps from the Mac App Store and have only limited access to the file system. All in the name of privacy and security.
If only the world were that linear...
 
I was just watching this guy's comparison on YouTube as this is my first time seeing backlash to the change:


Looks like setting custom DNS servers is still possible if you were still interested. (05:59)
Thanks for sharing, that's a great video. I had no idea how well designed the current System Preferences is now that I've seen what a mess. SwiftUI has made of it. Even the basic things, like the width of buttons and extra steps to get to settings that were previously on a single page... And the removal of tabs is just bizarre.
 
The recent Ventura seed broke a lot of stuff. Wake from sleep is no longer instant on Apple Silicon machines, and I no longer have sleep/wake settings in System Settings
Same here. I'm not seeing any settings listed now for this, and I'm also finding that my M1 MBP either wakes from sleep after maybe 5-10 seconds (after pressing a number of keys on the keyboard, moving the trackpad, or resting my finger on the Touch ID/Power button), or it just doesn't wake from sleep at all and reboots. It's no wonder why there wasn't a Ventura Beta Release yesterday. Stick it back in the oven and let it cook some more.
 
It won't be long before you can only install apps from the Mac App Store and have only limited access to the file system. All in the name of privacy and security.
Certain people have been saying this ever since the Mac App Store was announced in 2010. "It won't be long!!1!!!11!!!!111!" - we're almost 12 years down the road and it still hasn't happened.
 
Worth pointing out that the twitter screenshot actually shows a software update is available and therefore this isn't the latest beta, so article headline is potentially misleading.
If this was from the 10th - which is looks like, then the update was the Xcode command line tools update.
 
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Still a beta, so pretty irrelevant.
Seems like you're missing the entire point of this. The point isn't that "it's a beta" so we should expect bugs.. Of course! we should expect bugs. It's a beta. Duh..
The point is that the team responsible for making the Settings App switched to using SwiftUI (released in 2019?), and after 3 years the technology is still behaving as though it's 3 months old. So, seems pretty relevant to me.
 
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