I had minor bugs in macOS but nothing groundbreaking. Continuity works 99% of the time for me.
Same boat. I was arbitrarily waiting for 11.4 or 11.5 to update and now 12 is in public beta. I might just skip 11 altogether for my daily driver
What issues did you have with Catalina? I didn't update to Catalina until 10.15.7 so maybe i avoided all the woes. I think Catalina is great!
It seems like a lifetime ago since I had Catalina. I had constant beach balls, several stock apps not working as they should, and Finder didn't seem to work right half the time. My experience with it even after trying clean installs several times was as if I was dealing with an early beta release.
I certainly can distinguish a bug from a disliked behaviour.
am confused. are you running big sur? this is the monterey forum, the big sur forum is where you'd want to be...
My wife and I switched to iMacs about 8 years ago - simply because the hardware is so reliable, compared with ALL the Windows PCs I've ever owned (since 1992). MacOS has shown itself to be just as buggy as Windows - but differently buggy. One permanent issue in the last years has been that MacOS cannot find the Synology NAS when I boot our two iMacs in the morning, even though the NAS boots up before the Macs, the NAS was set up by an Apple professional retailer so it has all the right settings, the NAS is entered in the login items etc. etc. Every morning we have to take the backdoor route through Finder, Connect.... After that it often loses the contact again during the day. Neither of the iMacs has a screensaver or sleep time set, which I have often suspected trips that kind of behaviour (or was that Windows???). The NAS is awake all day and at around 9 pm closes down automatically. By then we've shut down the Macs. If we don't shut down the Macs but leave them on, it's even worse. Our MacBook Pro often loses the wifi link even though it stays in the same place in the house all day and needs reminding. These behaviours have existed for years, on a whole range of iMacs and through all the OS updates. I always do a completely new installation with formatting and all. We have learned to cope with these issues and assume they will never go away, which is why we are always annoyed when others claim MacOS is the be all and end all and nothing could be better. Windows, by the way does not have the problem finding the NAS....Drive Letters!
I’ve had serious issues with shutting down my M1 MBA since the first day. When I look at the SMART drive stats there is a line for unsafe shutdowns and I’m at over 60 in 9 months. That is a real issue for productivity since after a forced shutdown you really should do a complete disk utility disk repair check. These take up to an hour depending on how many snapshots are stored.
Hi 5425642!
I loved Borland’s Paradox especially after dBaseII. And their QuattroPro was, for me, a terrific spreadsheet program. Sorry these didn’t develop but just went away. Today, I long for a Paradox equivalent for native macOS. Started using Ninox and it is a pretty full-featured database product though reporting is very limited for me.
an OS is always a work-in-progress, it will never be perfect; hence the endless updates. and no matter what, we're all on different hardware, with different peripherals, running and needing different apps; it's an impossible wish to see everyone have everything running without issue
In the case of the system error messages, Big Sur. Even the other day I was in System Pref and the pane just beach-balled. No reason for it, it just happened.
why not start a thread on the big sur forum, where people running that OS might be able to help? just a thought, seems a more useful approach than mentioning it in the middle of an otherwise-unrelated thread.... anyway, good luck with it!
