I’m “bothering to comment” because I used to love using Macs and I’m disappointed at the sluggish pace of improvement or even regressions we’ve seen since Catalina.
For context, I switched from Linux somewhere back around Tiger and at that time it was like a breath of fresh air — all the benefits of a Linux machine without the stuffy hardware tweaks. But lately it’s been a struggle. I’ve asked myself, why am I still using this OS, which is basically just a pretty skin on top of a bunch of stuff (Mail, Mission Control, Messages ...) that I barely use? The dev experience keeps getting worse, I can’t run 32 bit apps anymore (goodbye, SNESx), system stability after upgrades is not as rock-solid it once was, and meanwhile they keep adding stuff I don’t need or want.
There was a thread here the other day about the lack of documentation for SwiftUI that resonated with me along the same lines. Why bother buying this hardware and developing on/for it, if the company is just moving further away from the stuff I like to use?
I am in a similar boat. I’m not so worried about them dropping legacy support for things, and I’m also fairly positive about where they are going with Swift etc, but it does feel like the benefits for professional use are narrow.
Having said that, I have moved back to Linux for some things recently, and it feels like time has simply stood still or regressed.
For context, I switched from Linux somewhere back around Tiger and at that time it was like a breath of fresh air — all the benefits of a Linux machine without the stuffy hardware tweaks. But lately it’s been a struggle. I’ve asked myself, why am I still using this OS, which is basically just a pretty skin on top of a bunch of stuff (Mail, Mission Control, Messages ...) that I barely use? The dev experience keeps getting worse, I can’t run 32 bit apps anymore (goodbye, SNESx), system stability after upgrades is not as rock-solid it once was, and meanwhile they keep adding stuff I don’t need or want.
There was a thread here the other day about the lack of documentation for SwiftUI that resonated with me along the same lines. Why bother buying this hardware and developing on/for it, if the company is just moving further away from the stuff I like to use?