I don't use them much, but they seemed to load just fine. There is a problem with the graphic drivers I guess and Lightroom and photoshop slow down a lot on heavy workloads. So I simply stopped using Big Sur for now.
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I don't use them much, but they seemed to load just fine. There is a problem with the graphic drivers I guess and Lightroom and photoshop slow down a lot on heavy workloads. So I simply stopped using Big Sur for now.
The following are working fine ...
Unity Hub w/ release 2019.2.17f1 installed
Postman
Camtasia 2019
Studio 3T
Goto Meeting
MongoDB Compass
Evernote
Github Desktop
Unity Hub w/ release 2019.2.17f1 installed
Postman
Camtasia 2019
Studio 3T
Goto Meeting
MongoDB Compass
Evernote
Github Desktop
No, not for me. I can get it to run by Show Package Contents>Contents>MacOS> and running from there, but then the helper log shows errors and it terminates.
Backup and Sync not working either, as before. I use those two a lot and, ironically, are the only two apps I've encountered issues with!
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Same in the beta 2.8.2 - I've reported this to the Readdle devs.
Please click EDIT below to add your working or NOT working app. Please try to add it alphabetically. Feel free to also comment in a reply any additional details you would like to share.
Working
- 1Blocker
- 1Password
- 3D Slicer
- A Better Finder Attributes 6
- A Better Finder Rename 11
- Adobe Creative apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, etc)
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Publisher
- Aja System Test Lite
- Alfred
- Amphetamine
- Arduino IDE
- AS Timer
- Atom with PlatformIO
- AutoMounter
- AutoPani Giga
- Banktivity 7
- BBEdit
- BetterSnapTool
- BetterTouchTool
- Brackets 1.14
- BTT
- Caffeine 1.1.3
- Calibre
- Canary Mail
- Canon IJ Scan Utility Lite
- Capture One 20
- Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) - ver. 5.1.20-b1 works fine
- Chrome
- Cisco Anyconnect 4.8.03036
- Cisco Webex Meetings 40.4.12.8
- Cisdem Video Converter 5.4.0
- Citrix Workspaces
- CloudMounter
- Commander One 2.4.2.3218
- Complete Anatomy 5.2.5
- CrossOver 19.0.2
- Currencier
- Dash
- Deepl
- Devonthink
- dJay Pro
- DjVu Reader Pro 2.4.1
- Docker (stable channel)
- Downie 4
- Dropbox latest beta https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-desktop-client-builds/Beta-Build-101-3-422/td-p/432874
- Enpass
- EPub Converter 20.6.1 (AniceSoft)
- eqMac
- ExpressVPN
- Facebook Messenger
- Fantastical
- Feedly
- ff-Works 2.1.2
- Filemaker (Pro 18 Advanced)
- FIleZilla (FTP client)
- Final Cut Pro X 10.4.8
- Flux
- Forklift
- FruitJuice (Battery management)
- Geekbench 5
- Get Backup Pro 3.5.5
- Ghostery Lite
- GoPro Quik - import screen shows connected camera (Session 4 in my case) no media to import.
- Git-Tower
- GitFinder
- GitKraken
- Google Earth Pro 7.3.3
- GrandPerspective
- Guarda Wallet
- Handbrake
- HyperDock
- Illustrator CC 2020
- iTunes (sometimes slow to register clicks)
- Jump Desktop 8.5.15
- Keka
- Kodi 18.7
- Logic and plugins (734 validated)
- LuLu
- Mamp
- Mathematica
- Mathworks matlab
- Mendeley
- Merlin Project
- Meshlab
- Meteorologist
- Microsoft Edge Beta
- Microsoft Remote Desktop
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta
- Microsoft Teams
- MIcrosoft 365 Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote) - Insider Fast & App Store Versions
- Mindnode
- Moom 3.2.17
- MySQL Workbench
- NeoFinder 7.5.2
- NetBeans 12.0
- Nextcloud
- Nextcloud client
- NomAD (Active Directory/Kerberos client)
- Notion
- Nova (b15)
- Numbers
- Office 365 Teams, OneNote
- OmniDisk Sweeper
- Omnifocus (version 3 not working if installed fresh)
- OmniGraffle Pro 7.1.6
- OmniOutliner Pro 5.6.1
- OmniPlan Pro 3.14.2
- OneDrive
- OpenEmu
- OpenSCAD
- OTP Auth
- PHPStorm
- Pages
- Papers.app
- Paprika Recipe Manager 3
- Parcel
- Paste (Clipboard manager)
- Photoshop CC 2019 & 2020
- Pixelmator Pro
- Plex Media Server 1.19.4
- Popcorn Time
- Privado VPN 1.2 (both for IKEv2 and Open VPN protocols)
- PrusaSlicer
- PureVPN
- Pulse Secure VPN Desktop Client 9.1.7
- PyCharm
- qBittorrent
- Quicken
- Rainbow
- Scrivener
- Segger Embedded Studio
- Sensei
- SheepSaver
- Signal 1.34.2
- Slack
- Sketch
- SnippetsLab
- Soda Player
- Sparkle 2.8.9
- Speedtest
- Starry Night Pro Plus 8
- Steam and Steam Games (Updated Beta Client)
- SurfShark
- Synology Drive
- Teamviewer
- Telegram
- Textmate
- TextExpander
- Timestamp Photo and Video
- Tinkertool
- Transmission
- Transmit
- Tweetbot
- Ulysses
- Uplet
- Viscosity OpenVPN Client (v1.8.2)
- Visual Studio Code
- VLC
- WeatherPro
- Whatsapp Desktop
- WiFi Signal
- Wipr (Safari ad blocker)
- XMind Zen 9.1.3
- Xquartz
- Zoom (5.1.1 update is now working!)
Not Working
- 3Dconnexion/3DxWare 10.6.5 (boot failure after restart, had to uninstall in Safe Mode)
- Abstract (crashes)
- AdGuard is stuck on Off without being able to turn it on
- "AdGuard for safari" extension is working.
- Adobe Bridge 2020. Crashes when you attempt to open image from the app.
- Ableton Live (early test crash on open, but could be plugins cause)
- Airmail (Freezes after turning on) EDIT: It looks, that it's working.
- Bartender (Menu bar icons will appear to be hidden, but attempting to expand the menu will trigger Siri)
- Beyond Compare (UI glitches and flickers, making it virtually unusable)
- Bit Defender Antivirus for Mac (System Extensions will not load)
- Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
- Cyberduck (FTP client)
- Daisydisk (Shows drive as Read-ONLY even if it has Full Disk access)
- Day-O
- Default Folder X (loads in manu bar but open/save doesn't work)
- Deluge 2.0.3
Docker (edge channel)- Gemini 2
- GPG Mail 4.1 (part of GPG Suite 2020.1)
- Google Drive File Stream
- Google Backup and Sync (Still broken in Big Sur BETA 2)
- GIMP-2.10 (It said developer requisition access , approve on Apple Watch.)
- LetterOpener (Mail.app plugin)
- Lite Icon 4.1
- Little Snitch
- LuLu
- Luminar 4 (crashed after exporting, stopped working afterwards)
- MacUpdate
- Mailbutler
- MailSuite
- MindManager 13.0.181
- Netspot
- OBS Studio
- Office 365 Word, Excel, Powerpoint (App Store Versions work)
- Onyx
- PDFPen (Launches but won't display PDF content)
- Plex Media Player 3.0.0.32-d310c89b6
- Rekordbox
- Samsung Portable SSD
- SoundSource (developer website says they are working on update)
Steam and Steam Games- Tactical Sailing
TinkerTool- TripMode
- Ultimaker Cura
- Unison (usenet newsreader)
- Visual Studio (launches but crashes when trying to open a solution)
- VMware Fusion 11.5.5
- VMWare Fusion Tech Preview e.x.p. 16227879
- Waterfox
- Wondershare UniConverter 11.6.7.5
- WD My Cloud (software loads but won't mount disk)
Sort of Working
- Amadeus (sometimes crashes)
Carbon Copy Cloner(latest official ver. does not work, but latest beta version does)- Indesign CC 2019 & 2020 (GPU preview is very glitchy, CPU preview is only sort of glitchy)
- Parallels (1,2,t,y keys NOT Working)
Mostly Working
- Contexts (window entries have slight colour glitches when Cmd-Tab is used, but works)
- Firefox (No Offical support, cannot be downloaded from site using beta,
audio/video issues with YouTube, unable to play Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, etc.Nightly version 79.0a1 (2020-06027) resolves video/audio playback issues. Intermittent glitching of YouTube onscreen graphics still present. Checkboxes do not work.)- Forecast Bar (issues with the dark menu bar icons and Big Sur's dark menu bar in light mode)
- iStat Menus - Functions OK when in dark mode. In light mode the Big Sur menu bar appears to stay dark which causes the iStats font to be unreadable (dark text on dark background)
- Pathfinder (some pop-up windows wrong size)
- Trickster (some misaligned graphic)
Adobe Libraries still not working under Beta 2
Hooray Steam works. BOO XCOM 2 WOTC still crashes on launch with a Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
running from the Mac? Or accessing the Mac via the app on another device? As the latter works fine for me.
Running from the Mac.
Logs are filled with
CGImageCreate: invalid image colorspace: NULL. when trying to connect to another machine.It works fine on iPadOS 14 so you can use that for now
I can confirm that, in Beta 2, the 1, 2, t and y keyboard characters still do not work in Windows running in Parallels Desktop.
It crashes as soon as you start to play music
OK, it did not work properly in Catalina for me, so not a big deal. Is there a free alternative to background music?
Not that I'm aware of, you could contact the developer and raise an issue for it
VMWare just release TechPreview 20H2 new version (16530630) and it's working now in Big Sur
This is a good thing, because I need to test some VM related things over the next two weeks.
Does someone else have the problem in Microsoft Powerpoint that you cannot just switch to another slide in the left slide overview?