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Thanks for that link. The bottom section satisfies my curiosity very nicely. Regarding your question, I adopted El Capitan as early as the public beta, and wa

by pohl 10y ago

Thanks for that link. The bottom section satisfies my curiosity very nicely. Regarding your question, I adopted El Capitan as early as the public beta, and was happy with the improvements even at such an early stage. I never encountered any of the problems that I read about others having. I got the impression that those of us who were satisfied simply had no motivation to post online (in contrast to those who were encountering bugs).

gnicholas 10y ago
Yeah, there's definitely skew in comments that lean toward complaints. I was going mostly based on reports that adoption was significantly slower than previous releases, although it neared 50% by Feb 2016: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3040692/apple-mac/mac-owners-in-no-rush-to-adopt-os-x-el-capitan.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/3040692/apple-mac/mac-o...
- pohl 10y ago
  There's an interesting graph on this article that could have put that article's observation about adoption rate into an interesting perspective. Alas, the El Capitan line is just getting started, so it doesn't show the part of the story that I was hoping to see. But it shows graphs of the last several versions – the last four of which are interesting because they show what adoption has been like since Apple started the annual release cadence. Their profiles aren't remarkably different, to my eye. They all have similar peaks immediately prior to the release of its successor. http://lowendmac.com/2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-mac-os-x-versions-2009-to-2015/ http://lowendmac.com/2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-mac-os-x-vers...
daveloyall 10y ago
That section satisfied my curiosity, too. For those of you that might be interested in confirming or denying that the "no-name" version of MenuMeters does not contain any malicious code... Here are some links: Original: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/download/MenuMeters.tar.gz http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/download/MenuMeters.tar... Base of the fork: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/archive/f71e581819e3df07fd6f7c5d62d1fb7b3e534ce3.zip https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/archive/f71e581819e3d... You need to confirm that the base of the fork is a 1:1 exact match with the original. If it is and you accept that, then here are all the differences between the latest version on github[1] and the original: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/compare/f71e581819e3df07fd6f7c5d62d1fb7b3e534ce3...yujitach:master https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/compare/f71e581819e3d... Footnotes: 1. That link is a moving target. If new commits come in today (or tomorrow), it will change. 2. This project has a health ecosystem of forks, some of which have newer commits than the one linked to in this HN thread. 3. Not like y'all ain't gonna download binaries to your macs anyway!

by pohl 10y ago

gnicholas 10y ago

Yeah, there's definitely skew in comments that lean toward complaints. I was going mostly based on reports that adoption was significantly slower than previous releases, although it neared 50% by Feb 2016: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3040692/apple-mac/mac-owners-in-no-rush-to-adopt-os-x-el-capitan.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/3040692/apple-mac/mac-o...

pohl 10y ago
There's an interesting graph on this article that could have put that article's observation about adoption rate into an interesting perspective. Alas, the El Capitan line is just getting started, so it doesn't show the part of the story that I was hoping to see. But it shows graphs of the last several versions – the last four of which are interesting because they show what adoption has been like since Apple started the annual release cadence. Their profiles aren't remarkably different, to my eye. They all have similar peaks immediately prior to the release of its successor. http://lowendmac.com/2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-mac-os-x-versions-2009-to-2015/ http://lowendmac.com/2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-mac-os-x-vers...

daveloyall 10y ago

That section satisfied my curiosity, too. For those of you that might be interested in confirming or denying that the "no-name" version of MenuMeters does not contain any malicious code... Here are some links: Original: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/download/MenuMeters.tar.gz http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/download/MenuMeters.tar... Base of the fork: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/archive/f71e581819e3df07fd6f7c5d62d1fb7b3e534ce3.zip https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/archive/f71e581819e3d... You need to confirm that the base of the fork is a 1:1 exact match with the original. If it is and you accept that, then here are all the differences between the latest version on github[1] and the original: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/compare/f71e581819e3df07fd6f7c5d62d1fb7b3e534ce3...yujitach:master https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/compare/f71e581819e3d... Footnotes: 1. That link is a moving target. If new commits come in today (or tomorrow), it will change. 2. This project has a health ecosystem of forks, some of which have newer commits than the one linked to in this HN thread. 3. Not like y'all ain't gonna download binaries to your macs anyway!