Today, Apple release the public betas of macOS Sierra and iOS 10. You need to enroll your device through the Apple Beta Software Program; you can always go back to the released versions, or keep using the betas until they update to the final versions once the time has come. As always, install them at your own peril – and for the love of Fiona, don’t do it on devices you rely on.
I switched to apple after years of.trying to use open source. I love open source and know it is incredible important for our digital futures – broadening opportunity, more trustable security, lower barriers to innovation, decentralised power …
And after years I did buy a macbookpro. Why? At some point productivity and user experience does matter. I like the long battery life. I need it. I like the decent colour management. I like the more professionally designed typefaces and rendering. The laptop hardware is still so far ahead of others .. quality of trackpad, keys, … sleep/lid open close that I can donewhat trust not to lose my information.
I appreciate the Unix foundations .. not a novice … yet I don’t treat osx as a Linux OS … I dare not mess with anything outside my home directory and even then…
I use Linux virtual machines.. and it’s a productivity dream. (I rememver 8 PCs stacked in my desk back in 2001).
And yet.
And yet osx could be even better. Apple are no longer prioritising it. Fun features outweigh the basics.
Siri seems more important than proper window management. Emojis more than package and repo management. Apple store the top tiny tiny % of in demand software is amateurish compared to Linux repo systems. The year+ pain of broken WiFi illustrates perfectly that apple with all its resources didn’t care enough.
So all I can hope for is that someone inside Apple wants to actually observe real users and their behaviour and feed the lessons learned into refining the Mac OS.
* Are there significant developers using macosx .. if so what do they want… a decent resource monitor or handover?
* Observing users shows then still confused about the window maximise button? Then fix it. 2016…ten years of osx and still this problem?
* Fink, brew, custom, ??? There’s demand for proper 3rd party software repos so provide the official tools. Heck, even rpm and repos.d would be good.
* Normal users … why are they still havjfn trouble quiting an application? Do the hard work to make it easy.
cant; seem to edit post so corrections:
“apple store, apart from the tiny tiny % of in demand software, is amateurish”
I had to choose between the features that macOS is adding versus the ones you mentioned, I would choose the macOS features every time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once again, Activity Monitor works fine, but you also have your typical command line tools like top or whatever you can use.
I’d rather Apple work on unsolved problems.
The MacOS beta installation locked up and trashed my system. It even got so far as to partially install the recovery partition. I had to make USB installation media on my primary Mac to get the testing system back up. Still no idea what caused it. It was installing and then… black screen. Guess that’s why it’s a beta. Let’s just hope they don’t ad the words “something happened” in the final release, eh?
If this were the release version, I’d be downright angry about something like this. Since it’s a beta, I’ll shake my head, report it, and move on. That particular system needed a clean install soon anyway.
Have you actually met Fiona? You’d find she’s not worth it.
Who the heck is Fiona?
Fiona Apple?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzayDpWoI