Tahoe will be the first new OS that I won't sail.

[rebelo]

Who remembers Lion? I thought I could withstand any buggy MacOS after Lion. Tahoe (RC) is making me change my mind. As much as I enjoyed the whole liquid design approach, everything else seems sluggish and out of place even on a MacStudio w/ 48GB RAM. Yes, the new spotlight seems powerful and neat, but probably will be useful for only a few. Didn't click with me.

Back in the day, Apple kind of forced the Lion upgrade (from Mountain Lion) because of iCloud. All the new syncing stuff didn't work right on Mountain Lion, so a lot of people (like myself) had to withstand Lion because of new resources. I wonder what they'll do to soft-force us to upgrade to Tahoe now.

It's a pity. I really wanted to enjoy Tahoe, especially because of the liquid design thing. [ EDIT: I got it backwards, it was Snow Leopard before Lion, not Mountain Lion! Thanks to benwiggy. ]

 

[fisherking]

Who remembers Lion? I thought I could withstand any buggy MacOS after Lion. Tahoe (RC) is making me change my mind. As much as I enjoyed the whole liquid design approach, everything else seems sluggish and out of place even on a MacStudio w/ 48GB RAM. Yes, the new spotlight seems powerful and neat, but probably will be useful for only a few. Didn't click with me.

Back in the day, Apple kind of force the Lion upgrade (from Mountain Lion) because of iCloud. All the new syncing stuff didn't work right on Mountain Lion, so a lot of people (like myself) had to withstand Lion because of new resources. I wonder what they'll do to soft-force us to upgrade to Tahoe now.

It's a pity. I really wanted to enjoy Tahoe, especially because of the liquid design thing.

how long did you run tahoe? perhaps it was sluggish as spotlight was indexing.

either way, what you're experiencing isn't the norm, and if it were me (it's not, lol) i'd get help with it... rather than going backwards...

 

[QuarterSwede]

Yeah that’s not right. It’s silky smooth on a M4 mini with multiple desktops and plenty of crap running.

 

[Kottu]

In my experience, I get better battery time than macOS Sequoia with Tahoe RC. During beta periods battery life became much worse but RC is way better. In Safari, I do get problems with my Bank, but I hope that it gets better. Currently I use Brave.

 

[benwiggy]

Apple kind of forced the Lion upgrade (from Mountain Lion) because of iCloud. All the new syncing stuff didn't work right on Mountain Lion, so a lot of people (like myself) had to withstand Lion because of new resources.

I think you've got that backwards: Lion was first (10.7); Mountain Lion followed (10.8).

The consensus is that Lion had lots of changes that "still needed some work"; and that work was completed in Mountain Lion.

 

[rebelo]

I think you've got that backwards: Lion was first (10.7); Mountain Lion followed (10.8).

The consensus is that Lion had lots of changes that "still needed some work"; and that work was completed in Mountain Lion.

You're completely right! I got it backwards. Before Lion was Snow Leopard, right? That was a hell of a good OS. I remember being unable to keep using Snow Leopard due to of iCloud syncing issues that only worked under Lion. Thanks!

 

[n-evo]

Too bad macOS Tahoe isn’t to your liking. Hopefully a future version will cut it. If not there’s always next year’s macOS version which I expect to be a lot more polished. Basically what OS X Mountain Lion did for OS X Lion. The first macOS version spotting a major overhaul of the interface has always been a bit rough around the edges.

 

[mackard]

I remember lion being so inspiring it made me into an early adopter. Finally some innovation in pc operating systems.

The last feature macos added was universal control in monterey.

Really looking forward to tahoe though, haven't tried it yet. The transparent menubar and journal app looking forward too.. first nonzero yearly release... since universal control...

 

[fisherking]

the odds are, you skip tahoe, wait for what comes next, then it's very similar, with some tweaks, some under-the-hood improvements, and a new feature or 2... but it's not a whole other thing. in which case you could have been running tahoe for a year. 🤷