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I regret upgrading. My Mac was wonderfully stable before the upgrade. Now it periodically crashes, as in full hard crash/reboot. Sometimes it fails to recogn

by blunte 9y ago

I regret upgrading. My Mac was wonderfully stable before the upgrade. Now it periodically crashes, as in full hard crash/reboot. Sometimes it fails to recognize one of my two external monitors, and when I wake it from screen saver or screen off (energy saver, but with laptop still running), it flashes the three displays a while and fumbles around trying to decide what goes where before _finally_ allowing me to unlock. And after I unlock, all my windows have been rearranged and shoved onto one display. I find no improvement or redeeming value in High Sierra. It's almost as bad as my new Windows 10 laptop next to it... in fact with the crashes it's now even worse. Apple has been on the path of self destruction, dare I say, since Jobs died. He may have had some goofy ideas, but apparently his dictator like control and obsession with details was worth more than I realized. Sadly for us users, especially developers, we'll soon have no OS that works great all the time.

Crontab 9y ago
I have to say that I haven't noticed any issues so far - Firefox, VMWare Fusion, VLC, and Homebrew all work fine. That said, I strongly disagree with forced version upgrades.
apostacy 9y ago
You should always be weary of forced updates. People should really know never to trust software when it tries updating.
fvargas 9y ago
I experienced a similar disappointment after installing one of the Sierra security updates. It introduced some external display issues [1] which to this day have gone unfixed. I've spent hours with Apple support, both in chat and over the phone, explaining the issue and providing them with debug data. They told me multiple times it was being looked into by engineering and would continue to update me. But time and time again they would schedule a follow-up phone call that never came or tell me I'd receive an email follow-up that would never arrive. I also echo the sentiment that it's difficult finding a practical alternative. [1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/277967/major-issues-with-multiple-external-displays-after-upgrading-from-macos-10-12-3 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/277967/major-issue...

by blunte 9y ago

Crontab 9y ago

I have to say that I haven't noticed any issues so far - Firefox, VMWare Fusion, VLC, and Homebrew all work fine. That said, I strongly disagree with forced version upgrades.

apostacy 9y ago

You should always be weary of forced updates. People should really know never to trust software when it tries updating.

fvargas 9y ago

I experienced a similar disappointment after installing one of the Sierra security updates. It introduced some external display issues [1] which to this day have gone unfixed. I've spent hours with Apple support, both in chat and over the phone, explaining the issue and providing them with debug data. They told me multiple times it was being looked into by engineering and would continue to update me. But time and time again they would schedule a follow-up phone call that never came or tell me I'd receive an email follow-up that would never arrive. I also echo the sentiment that it's difficult finding a practical alternative. [1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/277967/major-issues-with-multiple-external-displays-after-upgrading-from-macos-10-12-3 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/277967/major-issue...