FWIW I don't have the same experience at all — I mostly find each release, MacOS gets a bit better. I don't see lots of bugs.
The weight of commenters here is clearly not in the favor of my experience!
Maybe that's because I don't notice things? Or I don't use many of Mac apps, like Mail / Finder / Mission Control / etc (thanks to Alacritty + VSCode + Contexts + Amethyst)?
But I have to use Windows & Linux machines for other things, and I vastly prefer using a Mac.
Same here. I tend to use my Mac as a consistently “crisp” way of getting to a shell prompt. I use iterm2, while I’m in love with alacritty, etc … (and rust) - I just haven’t switched.
Combined with a pretty consistent decades old dotfile repo, good apps like Obsidian, vscode, and the crap corporate makes me use… I could really do fine with a Linux machine, but I always feel like the windowing envs are one “ctrl+alt+backspace” from me waking up in 1997’s days slackware and video res/driver hell.
I’ve not noticed any of the issues either. Could it be crappy third party mouse or keyboard customisation software? I’ve noticed that Logitech software has sometimes has sometimes caused wierd issues over the years.
Yep it’s crap. I use ‘USB overdrive’ and a cheap generic 5 button wired mouse off amazon. I find this gets the best latency and customisability for graphics work. My Logitech Bluetooth mouse that I used for travel doesn’t work on Apple silicon and I found the Microsoft mice with thier own wireless dongle a bit laggy and the wheels break after a year or so.
I just don't see any of this. Though the Ventura beta was pretty rough for me (M1 MBA), the only issues I've seen day to day is the frequent failure to eject an external drive from Finder. I often have to go in Disk Utility to eject a USB drive. Annoying, but not even something I do every day. Other than that, smooth sailing. And its still my favorite ever laptop.
Here’s one I don’t see mentioned: launch App Store, go to its settings, uncheck In-app ratings and reviews. Now restart the OS and notice how it’s checked again. I can reproduce on every Ventura machine I own and I’m constantly bombarded with all rating prompts, but I can’t submit a rating because the submit button doesn’t work…
The weight of commenters here is clearly not in the favor of my experience!
Maybe that's because I don't notice things? Or I don't use many of Mac apps, like Mail / Finder / Mission Control / etc (thanks to Alacritty + VSCode + Contexts + Amethyst)?
But I have to use Windows & Linux machines for other things, and I vastly prefer using a Mac.