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macOS Sonoma: All the little things!
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Hello everyone and thank you for having me, I am running Sonoma 14.2 on my MacBook Air late 2013 model and I am quite surprised. It won't break any speed records but everything works as it should, very happy with it!
For this forum I just noticed that when clicking on macOS to see the list of OS versions, the icon for macOS Sonoma (14) has “10.14” instead or “14.0” in it. I guess this may qualify as a little thing for now. 
So, after reading about what's new in Sequoia today, I realized that we still don't have the Music macOS widget. Apple told us "later this year" and it's been 6 more months since the year ended. The features of Sonoma PDF took out the "later this year" note, so it's implied that it's in the OS already. Where is it?
This all seems like part of an ongoing effort by Apple to converge, or at least harmonize, iOS and macOS. Honestly, I don't like it. I agree that the older and very long standing presentation of System Preferences is infinitely superior to the newer iOS-inspired one.
I am definitely a Luddite, but ALL of this seems like just little stuff... sideways motion, not forward motion. I wholly concur with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.
To that end, my Mac Studio arrived with Monterey on it, and it will stay on Monterey unless and until I am forced to upgrade it by some new feature that I really need. Ditto for my new MacBook Pro. It arrived with Sonoma, and there it will stay!
But honestly, the machine/OS I still love the best is my 2006 PowerMac G5 running Sorbet Leopard! There is almost nothing I can't do on that machine and I use it as often as possible. With the arrival of AquaFox, I can even surf the web on it again. My fond hope is that @thewireless, the author/maintainer of AquaFox, may eventually bring out a new version with even more optimizations and speed ups, making it that much better yet. Now THAT is change I can embrace!
In the end, there is a lot of "sound and fury" about all the latest releases of macOS, but how much more have they REALLY enabled you to do that you couldn't have done on an earlier release? There ARE some iPhone integrations that would be helpful, but I am an Android user, so they hold no attraction to me.
I don't resist change, but I only embrace it if it solves a problem I have. This has not been the case, for me at least, in the last many macOS releases.
To that end, my Mac Studio arrived with Monterey on it, and it will stay on Monterey unless and until I am forced to upgrade it by some new feature that I really need. Ditto for my new MacBook Pro. It arrived with Sonoma, and there it will stay!
But honestly, the machine/OS I still love the best is my 2006 PowerMac G5 running Sorbet Leopard! There is almost nothing I can't do on that machine and I use it as often as possible. With the arrival of AquaFox, I can even surf the web on it again. My fond hope is that @thewireless, the author/maintainer of AquaFox, may eventually bring out a new version with even more optimizations and speed ups, making it that much better yet. Now THAT is change I can embrace!
In the end, there is a lot of "sound and fury" about all the latest releases of macOS, but how much more have they REALLY enabled you to do that you couldn't have done on an earlier release? There ARE some iPhone integrations that would be helpful, but I am an Android user, so they hold no attraction to me.
I don't resist change, but I only embrace it if it solves a problem I have. This has not been the case, for me at least, in the last many macOS releases.
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