First Impressions?

[ZestyOne]

How do you guys like it? I haven't downloaded the update yet, I wanted to see people's first reactions but so far (hours later) it seems it's only issues downloading still.

Has anyone that downloaded successfully -- what's your first thoughts!?

 

[djrm]

ugly as hell

 

[ZestyOne]

ugly as hell

lol thats what i was afraid of......... can you post a screenshot? For the first time in my life I'm very "ugh" about upgrading... I love high information density.

 

[nortonandreev]

I have been using it since beta 1 and I am loving it. It was nice seeing how things were improving over the summer. I am surprised by how it runs, knowing how big of an update it is. Of course, this might vary based on your workflow. If you like the design or not is purely subjective, however, I am a major fan of it. If you are worried about updating, maybe wait for the next minor update, so that more bugs will be fixed. Furthermore, this will give time for 3rd parties to release updates as well.

 

[djrm]

lol thats what i was afraid of......... can you post a screenshot? For the first time in my life I'm very "ugh" about upgrading... I love high information density.

 

[Apple_Robert]

The stock wallpaper is ugly. I haven’t gotten around to exploring, yet.

 

[chabig]

lol thats what i was afraid of......... can you post a screenshot?

macOS Sequoia

macOS Sequoia brings effortless window tiling, web browsing with fewer distractions, new iPhone Mirroring, and support for Apple Intelligence.

www.apple.com

 

[ZestyOne]

Is this the update that introduces the new file system?

 

[ZestyOne]

macOS Sequoia

macOS Sequoia brings effortless window tiling, web browsing with fewer distractions, new iPhone Mirroring, and support for Apple Intelligence.

www.apple.com

I know what it looks like from all the marketing material, but someone claiming it's ugly I was hoping they would post some specific examples. I've seen stuff from months ago that was really ugly like the battery indicator but I'm not sure whats changed since then.

 

[chabig]

Is this the update that introduces the new file system?

No. APFS was introduced in Mojave, two years ago. It was made mandatory for boot drives last year in Catalina.

 

[nortonandreev]

I know what it looks like from all the marketing material, but someone claiming it's ugly I was hoping they would post some specific examples. I've seen stuff from months ago that was really ugly like the battery indicator but I'm not sure whats changed since then.

The battery indicator has been fixed.

 

[planteater]

lol thats what i was afraid of......... can you post a screenshot? For the first time in my life I'm very "ugh" about upgrading... I love high information density.

You summed up my biggest problem with it. So much wasted space. The balance is off.

 

[bjwhite3114]

How do you guys like it? I haven't downloaded the update yet, I wanted to see people's first reactions but so far (hours later) it seems it's only issues downloading still.

Has anyone that downloaded successfully -- what's your first thoughts!?

I didn't install any betas, so I'm new to the experience of Big Sur. It all looks and feels like a cheaper operating system. Speed seems fine, but the dock is horrible, menus are basic, and the window shapes are off. It just doesn't feel like a high-end OS anymore. That's my impression during the first 30 minutes.

 

[cmhsam]

Worst thing about this will be when MS forces us to the new version of Outlook...absolutely UGLY!

 

[ghanwani]

ugly as hell

My biggest fear as i've been seeing screenshots reported in MR's posts. What is happening to Apple?

 

[macdos]

This still floods the logs: com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.06000000-0200-0000-0000-000000000000[7004]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[78]. You would think Apple would tend to such bugs, but…

Imovie adds further flooding: VTDecoderXPCService[6997]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: Changing target queue hierarchy after xpc connection was activated; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug

Books doesn't have a toggle for list/grid anymore, you have to go to the menu FAR away in the left corner of the screen.

Books added a lot of menus for Store. I don't use the store, and I can't get rid of the crap.

But there is a Polish-English dictionary, although yet not a Greek-English one.

Round icons. More air.

No new fonts.

No new apps.

Not faster.

Not more memory efficient.

Probably many more emoji. I don't know. I don't care.

That's what we get for 12.1 GB worth of data.

 

[macdos]

You summed up my biggest problem with it. So much wasted space. The balance is off.

Right, look at the Activity monitor. Pay attention millennials, this is not how you do UI.

 

[AAPLGeek]

This still floods the logs: com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.06000000-0200-0000-0000-000000000000[7004]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[78]. You would think Apple would tend to such bugs, but…

Imovie adds further flooding: VTDecoderXPCService[6997]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: Changing target queue hierarchy after xpc connection was activated; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug

Books doesn't have a toggle for list/grid anymore, you have to go to the menu FAR away in the left corner of the screen.

Books added a lot of menus for Store. I don't use the store, and I can't get rid of the crap.

But there is a Polish-English dictionary, although yet not a Greek-English one.

Round icons. More air.

No new fonts.

No new apps.

Not faster.

Not more memory efficient.

Probably many more emoji. I don't know. I don't care.

That's what we get for 12.1 GB worth of data.

Every OS release since Snow Leopard has been a race to add more superfluous bloat than ever and with Big Sur Apple has outdone themselves!

 

[poormatt]

Performance wise, I'm not sure if faster is the word but some things seem more responsive ( i9 16" MBP, 32GB, etc).

That said, visually everything looks really, really fat. It reminds me of the first days when the linux distros were trying to be prettier.

 

[meDANOcine]

Seriously, what's up with these massive toolbar sizes? I used to love how efficient MacOS utilized space compared to Windows. The sizing of the UI is just off kilter.

 

[chinchillas]

This still floods the logs: com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.06000000-0200-0000-0000-000000000000[7004]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[78]. You would think Apple would tend to such bugs, but…

Imovie adds further flooding: VTDecoderXPCService[6997]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: Changing target queue hierarchy after xpc connection was activated; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug

Books doesn't have a toggle for list/grid anymore, you have to go to the menu FAR away in the left corner of the screen.

Books added a lot of menus for Store. I don't use the store, and I can't get rid of the crap.

But there is a Polish-English dictionary, although yet not a Greek-English one.

Round icons. More air.

No new fonts.

No new apps.

Not faster.

Not more memory efficient.

Probably many more emoji. I don't know. I don't care.

That's what we get for 12.1 GB worth of data.

Wow. Are there any security patches that would make it absolutely necessary to upgrade? The screenshot above looks like Arch Linux.

 

[Ael_MR]

Total black screen crash not even 5 minutes after install. Not a good first impression of Big Sur but I'm going to stay positive and hope that it was just a fluke.

 

[Natzoo]

I am on Mojave, should I just update to Catalina? I personally dislike Catalina for its flaws and all but I feel like Mojave is getting old.

 

[fehhkk]

New mail app toolbar is atrocious. The reduced size of the icons on the top bar wastes a lot of space as well.

 

[fehhkk]