What is actually different about Sequoia? So far not seeing much...

[glindon]

You can disable this in Settings.

Thank you. The hell is that even a setting? I never thought to even look there.

 

[VitoBotta]

I am not "unimpressed" since I haven't had any problems with Sequoia and actually for being a beta it's amazingly stable. But in terms of features I am quite disappointed, because i jumped on the first beta for the iPhone mirroring and Apple Intelligence, only to find out these won't be available in the EU (I live in Finland). So sad.

 

[glindon]

I am not "unimpressed" since I haven't had any problems with Sequoia and actually for being a beta it's amazingly stable. But in terms of features I am quite disappointed, because i jumped on the first beta for the iPhone mirroring and Apple Intelligence, only to find out these won't be available in the EU (I live in Finland). So sad.

I empathize. Almost seems you guys are getting absolutely nothing.

Music app has some strange bugs. Refusing to close, adding an album crashes every time.

 

[VitoBotta]

I empathize. Almost seems you guys are getting absolutely nothing.

Music app has some strange bugs. Refusing to close, adding an album crashes every time.

yeah thinking of it I am not sure if we are getting any of the new features

 

[GuilleA]

I find the implementation to be hot garbage. For some strange reason, when, say, you place a window in the left or right half; the damn window doesn't fill out the whole half, leaving empty space around the window. Like, why not have the window stretch out to fill the whole space?

Uncheck the option "Tiled windows have margins" and the will fill up all the space.

 

[dmccloud]

Well there's a thread right on this forum of what software work and don't on Sequoia. Most of these issues will be resolved eventually but not all

Especially specialized 3rd party software. For ex sshfs doesn't work on Sonoma because a component it relies on uses some API that got dropped

Why should new OS versions break apps anyway, esp when there are not even enough new features to warrant a whole version every year

Would you rather have a new OS break some older apps (Mac) or systematically leave millions of desktops and laptops behind because they don't have a certain chip on their motherboards (Windows)? Microsoft pulled the latter trick with Windows 11 and the TPM 2.0 requirement. Fortunately there are multiple ways to install Windows 11 on those systems now using some third party tools, but that was not a good look for Nadella or his crew in Redmond.

 

[thebart]

Would you rather have a new OS break some older apps (Mac) or systematically leave millions of desktops and laptops behind because they don't have a certain chip on their motherboards (Windows)? Microsoft pulled the latter trick with Windows 11 and the TPM 2.0 requirement. Fortunately there are multiple ways to install Windows 11 on those systems now using some third party tools, but that was not a good look for Nadella or his crew in Redmond.

There was 6 years between Windows 10 and 11. It was a major update. You can't compare that to a yearly update. Go to the thread about apps that got broken between Sonoma and Sequoia. We're not talking system utilities or kernel extensions, just normal productivity apps. Why?

Apple gets away with this because macs aren't widely used in enterprises, who would not tolerate this sort of yearly disruption.