Mac OS 26 Is Utter Garbage and Apple Has truly lost its way....

[whatnot]

This reminds me of when Windows Vista came out: a modern, beautiful interface with a couple of minor inconveniences, and users are fussing like hell. I'll react the same way I did back then: come on now, is it really that bad? As far as I'm concerned, the system works very fine. First-world problem, as they say.

a Vista and Vaseline Soup comparison in defense of Vaseline Soup, I suppose stranger things have happened.

 

[Sniper08]

and here, you made an important point 👍

Take notes.

 

[Undecided]

I can relate. The changes in the OS frustrated me so much that I ended up giving away my iMac (including dual boot Bootcamp to Win 11), which is still a beast and works great under MS Win.

I switched to a portable abomination MS Surface/Win 11, and I wish I had done it sooner! The only thing I’m sticking with for now is the iPhone 16 Pro, but once it’s done, I’m not buying Apple again until they get their act together.

Windows 11 has its downsides and frustrations too, but they don’t bother me as much as Apple/Tahoe. I need to work on my PC, not fight with the OS UI and get frustrated.

Now, I just wish MS would make a Surface phone (I know, I know).

Cheers from MS Windows! (and love to all the Apple fans).

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I have experienced some glitches - nothing fatal but no matter how bad it might get there's no way I would switch to Windows. I'd rather switch to Linux/LibreOffice/Firefox, which apparently many Windows 10 users are doing.

 

[Jeeve Stubbs]

Vista wasn’t beautiful and nobody has ever forgiven it. One positive was that you could disable the Aero theme and have classical Windows theme.

Don't take your personal preferences for a general consensus. You may prefer the classic Windows theme to Vista's (like some people who prefer the looks of classic macOS to macOS X), but you're not in the majority. Windows 7 (technically, 6.1), a major success, was directly inspired from the graphical interface of Vista (6.0), and few people have complained that 7 was ugly.

Vista (Aero)​

Classic Windows​

 

[UMHurricanes34]

Am I the only one that actually likes macOS 26? On my M1 Macs it runs well and I'm encountering fewer issues than in previous upgrade cycles.

macOS, tends to go int cycles with how things are implemented. First, you have a new design where things have been designed to work together. Then, you have years of new features being added that are shoehorned in until the next redesign when things start over again. I feel like macOS 26 is one of those starting points with a new design language and some new concepts. It feels fresh and works well for me. I was also very happy with the last UI shift when going to macOS 11, so perhaps I just like new things, but my Mac is first and foremost a tool to get things done and I honestly haven't had any showstoppers with macOS 26 like I did with Sequoia and Sonoma in their early versions.

You are not the only one. Where Tahoe disappoints me is where they were unable to get to. There are now areas of the OS that feel like they’re forgotten or stuck in the past because they didn’t get the redesign treatment. Small things like network/NAS panels in Finder, the installer, etc. The details. I hope they’re able to keep moving forward with it vs it getting stuck in time and forgotten like a Windows OS.

 

[Jeeve Stubbs]

You are not the only one. Where Tahoe disappoints me is where they were unable to get to. There are now areas of the OS that feel like they’re forgotten or stuck in the past because they didn’t get the redesign treatment. Small things like network/NAS panels in Finder, the installer, etc. The details. I hope they’re able to keep moving forward with it vs it getting stuck in time and forgotten like a Windows OS.

I know what you mean. I regularly use Windows (11) and, while it mostly uses modern icons and interfaces in the places standard users access (desktop, major apps, folders, etc.), older icons (sometimes as far back as the 1990s) are left intact in more complex/tech-savvy tools, as though we geeks didn't count. An annoyance, but I wouldn't reject the whole OS because of that, as some people do. Windows 11 and macOS Tahoe are, by and large, very worthwhile systems.

 

[CasualFanboy]

The fact that the Windows 11 start menu is written in React is just astounding. lol