Can always downgrade!
Thank god macOS isn't like iOS/iPadOS where you get "trapped" once you upgrade.
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Mac OS 26 Is Utter Garbage and Apple Has truly lost its way....
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Can always downgrade!
Thank god macOS isn't like iOS/iPadOS where you get "trapped" once you upgrade.
Last week I updated two of my macs from Sequoia to Tahoe 26.0.1. While everything went smoothly on my 16" M1 MBP, there was a strange thing happening on my M1 Mini: The language (and also the time format) on the boot lock screen changed from German to English, although English had never been on the list of languages in the Preferences pane ("Language & Region"). After logging in and out, the language on the lock screen changed to German, as intended. But after rebooting, it changed back to English.
In case anyone of you runs into a similar bug, maybe with another language, here is a fix:
In case anyone of you runs into a similar bug, maybe with another language, here is a fix:
- add "English" in the Preferences pane and move it to the top, to make it the primary language
- reboot
- login, open the Preferences pane again and move your language (e.g., "German") to the top, to make it the primary language
- reboot
got it. but since these aren't commonly-reported issues... something specific is happening for you. so, issues to be looked at, not universal system bugs.
there's nothing to lose (and perhaps much to gain) by starting a thread, and/or calling apple...
This is the only time I'm going to respond to you about this, because we've had this exact same discussion and you refuse to understand it despite it being explained to you multiple times in different ways.
No one is 'afraid' of other POVs, stop insinuating or implying negative traits about people that haven't been expressed or demonstrated.
I never said I want threads where everyone rants in unison. Again, stop implying things and using hyperbole to distort other people's words. You continuously do this and then wonder why you get hostile responses.
I don't care about the thread title. I simply ignore threads I don't care about.
Don't look. Don't see.
If you want to reduce these kinds of topics and this format of discussion, stop participating in it, bumping it, increasing the reply count, and let it die off normally. The only other reasons I could think of to participate in a topic you don't like is to; purposely derail it or to shut people down from participating in a way you don't like.
I would have thought the sarcasm in my reply was rather obvious, so you're either unfamiliar with the concept, or you chose to ignore it.
It wasn't obvious, unfortunately.
I've been misunderstood in a similar way here before.
Always good to be safe with an /s tag
This really doesn't read as sarcastic to me 👇 🤷♂️
Now, now..starfruit is fine to throw as I could recover after the bruises, but throwing rocks would be worthy if i suggested, “Hey, I have an idea, let us all go to Windows instead..”. As a solution. Expensive tomatos are not even worthy of that suggestion. 😂
I have many qualms with the crowd over at HackerNews, but that aside, it's pretty amazing to see how much negative reaction there is to all these "26" OSes from Apple
news.ycombinator.com
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
Yep, been saying this for a good decade now.. Spot on.
wow Tahoe (and ) is getting worse!
im trying to watch a cycling event on the Mac mini m1 NOW as "teh internets" won't launch then circles
meanwhile the stream is fine on my Dinosaur MBA10, using Mojave.......huh?
that tip menu bar is hard to see what is the Tahoe menu and Vivaldi menu as they merge?
safari keeps popping up anamie porn sites on cycling news, a digit website?
the history is cleared out and surfing is strict.
meanwhile my iPad won't type with a Logitech keyboard since Thursday
Apple Pencil disconnects, iPhone won't received live call just a reminder to update my iCloud on Mojave instead.
tv stutters when watching a MP4 from the macmini.
I guess Tahoe is spiraling downwards to keep up with other ineffective software!
way to go TIMS!
im trying to watch a cycling event on the Mac mini m1 NOW as "teh internets" won't launch then circles
meanwhile the stream is fine on my Dinosaur MBA10, using Mojave.......huh?
that tip menu bar is hard to see what is the Tahoe menu and Vivaldi menu as they merge?
safari keeps popping up anamie porn sites on cycling news, a digit website?
the history is cleared out and surfing is strict.
meanwhile my iPad won't type with a Logitech keyboard since Thursday
Apple Pencil disconnects, iPhone won't received live call just a reminder to update my iCloud on Mojave instead.
tv stutters when watching a MP4 from the macmini.
I guess Tahoe is spiraling downwards to keep up with other ineffective software!
way to go TIMS!
10.0 literally shipped missing the DVD player application, while Apple was actively selling a computer called the iMac DV, who’s main advertised feature was the ability to watch DVDs and burn DVDs, which… you literally couldn’t do in 10.0.
That will never not be the funniest thing to me.
The other funniest thing is the people who insist Steve would have never allowed the Apple Intelligence delays…
But he originally announced that OS X would start shipping in 1999.
It started shipping in March 2001, almost two years late, and wasn’t the default OS until 2002, four years after it was originally announced back in 1998.
Forstall was never in charge of macOS.
He *worked* on early versions, but he was only ever head of iOS, and before that simply in charge of “platforms”.
The person in charge of Mac OS X during the majority of the time that Jobs was CEO was Bertrand Serlet.
Also the several earliest versions of OS X used quite a bit of transparency and flatness.
Forstall was a leading designer of Mac OS X's Aqua interface:
Source:
Scott Forstall - Wikipedia
In 2006, Forstall was responsible for Mac OS X releases:
Source:
Scott Forstall - Wikipedia
The earliest versions of Mac OS X used translucecy, but not flat design. Prior to 2013, the translucency used in Mac OS X was combined with skeuomorphism, not with flat design. macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 use glassmorphism, which is a variant of flat design. Glassmorphism uses translucecy combined with flat design.
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Shhh, don't give Apple any ideas now that all of their devices run on AS. I can see the day where they might/could stop signing a macOS release just like with the rest of their mobile devices, making a downgrade impossible.
That will be when I exit stage left from Apple.
I want nothing to do with my primary computer being "nannied" to death by Apple. I don't want them getting their greedy hands on all the financial interactions, nor do I need them telling me what's "ok" or not.
This is especially true given their conduct this calendar year.
Just installed macOS 26 on my external drive to have a look at…… 🥴
Naaaaah…..don’t like it, seems very juvenile….🤪
I have no intention of upgrading anyway for at least a year (only just upgraded to macOS 15).
So we will see if it improves.
What’s this all about…..some third party app icons show this
Naaaaah…..don’t like it, seems very juvenile….🤪
I have no intention of upgrading anyway for at least a year (only just upgraded to macOS 15).
So we will see if it improves.
What’s this all about…..some third party app icons show this
I downloaded this piece of garbage without even thinkng that it would be junk. Not only that but to try to go back a version is a nightmare. I am seriously considering getting rid of Apple and buying all windows architecture
Look into Linux. Windows sucks too.
KDE Plasma is great. There's even a MacOS Big Sur theme for it if you're into that kind of thing.
I am always fascinated when people say they don’t encounter any problems, especially when I encounter a problem in that exact moment. In this case it’s spontaneously dark status bar and the differently colored icons.
I like for people not to have bugs. I just question if they simply don’t notice when they happen.
or they're being honest about their experiences? i am also not experiencing any bugs (& yes, i see the places that need fixing). but nothing is getting in my way of working/playing.
we don't all have the same experiences, opinions. it's one of the things that make places like worth hanging out in...
using an older OS like Mojave makes me realize how annoying stupid Tahoe can be!