A few years ago... I had stored some archives (more than ten years of personal stuff) directly under the file system root. A macos upgrade eliminated them. All of them. No warning in advance, no warning as it trashed my stuff. Really user-hostile.
Literally always. With Sonoma my laptop no longer goes to sleep and, uses a ton of CPU (and runs the fans at full blast) while the screensaver is on and along with about half of my colleagues, I am getting a massive amount of microphone echo from Google Meet when not using headphones where previously it was never an issue.
When I upgraded my MBA to Sonoma, it was unusable for about 3-4 days. Opening Finder would slow the system down to a halt and eventually crash.
I have no idea what the problem was, but it eventually sorted itself out after that (not before I was ready to wipe it all and start again, despite how uninterested I was in doing that). Search engines and GPT didn’t give me much - Spotlight reindexing was everyone’s best guess, but I saw no evidence of this.
The fact that I’d transitioned to putting all my dev work into iCloud didn’t help - I moved out of that pretty shortly after, iCloud really doesn’t like files changing that often.
The UX on macOS is still my favourite across all the OSs I’ve used for personal use. But when it stops working … it’s impossible to figure out why and impossible to do anything about it except wait and hope, or start over.
To make it more entertaining we should take bets on "what daemon will shit itself this release".
Right now I'm staring at the calendar daemon. Spending 70-80% CPU syncing a calendar that hasn't been in use for a few years. If I had screwed up that badly I'd be embarrassed and keen to ship a fixed version pronto. Apple doesn't seem to give a shit about software quality.
A few years ago... I had stored some archives (more than ten years of personal stuff) directly under the file system root. A macos upgrade eliminated them. All of them. No warning in advance, no warning as it trashed my stuff. Really user-hostile.
You're saying you store personal stuff right at '/'? Apple did give warnings it was going to push forward with securing the rootfs.
Where ? Buried in some tech talk somewhere ? Hmph.
The right move would be to move it into /Users/softwareupdatefiles and require admin access to read (or something like that).
I really dislike these kinds of comments. You don't give any example, but you say "always painful"? Literally always?
What exactly broke for you in the last three updates?
Literally always. With Sonoma my laptop no longer goes to sleep and, uses a ton of CPU (and runs the fans at full blast) while the screensaver is on and along with about half of my colleagues, I am getting a massive amount of microphone echo from Google Meet when not using headphones where previously it was never an issue.
When I upgraded my MBA to Sonoma, it was unusable for about 3-4 days. Opening Finder would slow the system down to a halt and eventually crash.
I have no idea what the problem was, but it eventually sorted itself out after that (not before I was ready to wipe it all and start again, despite how uninterested I was in doing that). Search engines and GPT didn’t give me much - Spotlight reindexing was everyone’s best guess, but I saw no evidence of this.
The fact that I’d transitioned to putting all my dev work into iCloud didn’t help - I moved out of that pretty shortly after, iCloud really doesn’t like files changing that often.
The UX on macOS is still my favourite across all the OSs I’ve used for personal use. But when it stops working … it’s impossible to figure out why and impossible to do anything about it except wait and hope, or start over.
To make it more entertaining we should take bets on "what daemon will shit itself this release".
Right now I'm staring at the calendar daemon. Spending 70-80% CPU syncing a calendar that hasn't been in use for a few years. If I had screwed up that badly I'd be embarrassed and keen to ship a fixed version pronto. Apple doesn't seem to give a shit about software quality.