Thread 107056745

I just reinstalled High Sierra, fuck this, this is enough for me and it's much lighter than linux or windows

>>107056745 (OP)
I used a mac mini m1 with Sequoia/macOS 15.
The biggest advantages is the .appbundles and the permission system imho(when you don't have an iphone) you get an app developer+OS level Mandatory Access Control setup for user applications.
Big step up from Linux.

The mac mini m1 has lower power draw and about the cpu power of an 5700x3D/ryzen 7 6850u when encoding x264 on a cpu(ik).
But the last thing I would call macOS is quick.
Yes it is much much quicker than windows still.
There's lots of times where the OS makes you kinda wait a bit before it gives you visual feedback on the action you've asked the os to make.

Also can you please fucking add the applications folder to the dock.

>>107056831
Like I think there's like 5-10 second delay before the copy/cut/remove prompt window shows up.
And some apps took a bit of time to launch(cold start not cached).

>>107056831
M5 is twice as fast as M1 just so you know.

>>107056894
Yeah but my thinkpad t14 gen 3 and my desktop works just fine still.

Generally I liked the ability to create custom shortcuts from the global menu.
The old installer format/.pkg is quiet simple and discoverable through use of file and basic extraction tools alone.
I had to find smartctl binary in a smartctl utility to check ssd drive health(15%) and it doesn't install into macOS PATH.

I also didn't really liked using the terminal on macOS, only because I tried using brew.sh but quickly found out that apps could write into the brew directory and promptly stopped using that 3rd party package manager.
And you have weird things like that openMP library part of the clang compiler which doesn't come from apple itself after you install xcode and xcode developer tools.
You have to go to the Rlang page where you find an Apple signed installer package for openMP extension to clang/llvm just why is it on an Rlang server(IK they make use of it but)?

And some shortcuts are really uncomfortable like some shortcuts like ctrl+backspace/ctrl+shift+backspace to delete/force delete.

>>107056745 (OP)
And the time task tracking was cool.
But when the machine was off the OS boots with the old RTC clock and it's as if it adjusts the time before login, but after the task tracking daemon. And same thing happens with waking up from sleep.
So it begins showing insane screen on time that didn't happen while the machine was off.

Basically my monitor pixel response time is short enough to see the temporal dithering.
So any OS transparency it's as if on macOS15 they used low accuracy floating point ops for transparency effect and tried to fix it by dithering a pattern.
So I had to turn off shadows, turn off dithering, change the color profile, disable transparency effects etc.
Because anytime a transparency showed up I had a dark gray to dark gray version of TV static.

And with standard color profile recording a video on the desktop yields a very different colors on playback on all video players(really weird even if I recorded with OBS studio).

>>107057087
Thing is the shadows on macOS have extreme banding when you turn off temporal dithering effects and those require you to turn off System Integrity Protection and install some code hooking into I think it was finder/cocoa which I refused to do.

>>107056894
and they slowed it down by tahoe liquid ass garbage

>>107057129
True, but you can use latest sequioa which is what you should for like one or two years until they optimize liquid ass, but its always been like.

best thing I can tell is that if anything then I can go up to mojave, I know new hardware means things works better but honestly I want test if I can use 'windows 7' of the macos, if anything then I also have boot camp to windows 7 or 8.1

tldr; old os is not really a meme unless software isn't working on it anymore