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I feel like hardware problems on Macs are overblown, especially compared to the alternatives. I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing,

I feel like hardware problems on Macs are overblown, especially compared to the alternatives. I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.

_jal 6y ago
Agreed on the hardware. Part of it is perception - people expect crappy windows laptops to be crappy and break down. Apple is "supposed" to be perfect, and any problems are instantly literal front-page news. MacOS has had a bad run, though. It is substantially buggier than it used to be - I see far more weird silent failures than I have in a long time (pre-Snow Leopard), bad performance in some cases, etc. And then there is all the Catalina security-related breakage. Maybe that will work out for the bulk of users, but it broke the platform for me. That's the reason I don't see myself paying for another.
talentedcoin 6y ago
I used to feel that way until it bit me my own self. I had to trash an iMac with a bad graphics card that was past warranty. That was a lot of cash down the drain. Then add the silliness (thankfully behind us) with the butterfly keyboards on the MacBooks. I can’t speak for the rest of us, but between the glitchy (for me) experience with Catalina and some of the unwelcome (to me) changes around SIP, I definitely feel less and less happy every time I sit down to do work on my Mac.
Marsymars 6y ago
> I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately. Something always seems to break for me on macOS updates. Often it's related to third-party software, but it still feels like a regression for me. For Catalina: * I use Karabiner-Elements for keyboard customization. Since Catalina, hitting capslock will randomly stop the keyboard from working until the OS is rebooted. My solution has been to remove my capslock key to avoid inadvertent presses. * Since iTunes was removed, Apple Music no longer works with Firefly Media Server. This means that any NAS device with iTunes library support can no longer serve that library to macOS. My solution has been to give up playing music on macOS, since I can't find any software for the relatively simple use case of "play my pre-organized folder from this artist in chronological order by album".

_jal 6y ago

Agreed on the hardware. Part of it is perception - people expect crappy windows laptops to be crappy and break down. Apple is "supposed" to be perfect, and any problems are instantly literal front-page news. MacOS has had a bad run, though. It is substantially buggier than it used to be - I see far more weird silent failures than I have in a long time (pre-Snow Leopard), bad performance in some cases, etc. And then there is all the Catalina security-related breakage. Maybe that will work out for the bulk of users, but it broke the platform for me. That's the reason I don't see myself paying for another.

talentedcoin 6y ago

I used to feel that way until it bit me my own self. I had to trash an iMac with a bad graphics card that was past warranty. That was a lot of cash down the drain. Then add the silliness (thankfully behind us) with the butterfly keyboards on the MacBooks. I can’t speak for the rest of us, but between the glitchy (for me) experience with Catalina and some of the unwelcome (to me) changes around SIP, I definitely feel less and less happy every time I sit down to do work on my Mac.

Marsymars 6y ago

> I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately. Something always seems to break for me on macOS updates. Often it's related to third-party software, but it still feels like a regression for me. For Catalina: * I use Karabiner-Elements for keyboard customization. Since Catalina, hitting capslock will randomly stop the keyboard from working until the OS is rebooted. My solution has been to remove my capslock key to avoid inadvertent presses. * Since iTunes was removed, Apple Music no longer works with Firefly Media Server. This means that any NAS device with iTunes library support can no longer serve that library to macOS. My solution has been to give up playing music on macOS, since I can't find any software for the relatively simple use case of "play my pre-organized folder from this artist in chronological order by album".