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I read a few paragraphs, got the same impression, and closed it, because the author admitted they're using practically none of the Apple ecosystem and therefore

I read a few paragraphs, got the same impression, and closed it, because the author admitted they're using practically none of the Apple ecosystem and therefore have already discounted the overwhelming majority of the improvements in Catalina. It's certainly disingenuous to have a clickbait headline "Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it's worth" when it's missing "as explained by someone who doesn't use music, photos, TV, reminders, notes, or really anything else from the Apple software ecosystem".

hrktb 7y ago
It's a fair take though. macOS is a product on its own, especially if you come from the hardware pespective, wanting for instance a iMac Pro and seeing the OS that comes with it as a glorified hardware manager. Is macOS Catalina the best OS for your machine ? Is it genuinely better than the precedent version ? That's a question worth pondering.
- lilyball 7y ago
  macOS is a product, that includes Music, TV, Photos, and all sorts of other apps, which were a major focus of the user-facing changes in Catalina. If you don't use Music, TV, Photos, Notes, Reminders, Calendars, or any of the other software, then you're discounting 95% of what the OS provides.
austhrow743 7y ago
I don't think it's disingenuous when it's a personal blog, which comes with an inherent "for my particular use case". The problem is when that context is stripped away by aggregation sites like this one where tons of articles we read are from publishers and the expectation might be that the author did some research, tried different things, and was trying to write from a more objective or all encompassing view point. I have the same problem with articles where the title will read like it's going to be a regular news article but instead it's a 6000 word story on the authors journey to uncover the information and how it made them feel yadda yadda. Not really the publishers fault, I'm sure their reader base knows what to expect (I know I've learned to stop clicking links to The Atlantic), but ends up misleading the potential reader from elsewhere a bit. When this happens I think the fault is with the aggregator not allowing or enforcing proper information labelling. Not the author being disingenuous.
- dkonofalski 7y ago
  Maybe this is why all my posts are being downvoted, then. I obviously missed the boat on the whole "personal blog" thing. When I think of a personal blog, I think that the person is writing their personal opinion about something that they've concluded in good faith. This article, specifically, doesn't seem like it was written in good faith to me and so, as a result, comes off as nothing but complaining for the sake of complaining. I'm not asking for anyone to prevent people from complaining but I just don't think it has any value when even the complaints come from an inherently biased place that doesn't even acknowledge its bias. I'm only saying this because I updated to Catalina without going through the betas first and I haven't had any issues whatsoever. To read something like this that is so negative about it seems like astroturfing or manipulation, especially when the only articles this website has ever posted on HN are all critical of Apple.

hrktb 7y ago

It's a fair take though. macOS is a product on its own, especially if you come from the hardware pespective, wanting for instance a iMac Pro and seeing the OS that comes with it as a glorified hardware manager. Is macOS Catalina the best OS for your machine ? Is it genuinely better than the precedent version ? That's a question worth pondering.

lilyball 7y ago
macOS is a product, that includes Music, TV, Photos, and all sorts of other apps, which were a major focus of the user-facing changes in Catalina. If you don't use Music, TV, Photos, Notes, Reminders, Calendars, or any of the other software, then you're discounting 95% of what the OS provides.

austhrow743 7y ago

I don't think it's disingenuous when it's a personal blog, which comes with an inherent "for my particular use case". The problem is when that context is stripped away by aggregation sites like this one where tons of articles we read are from publishers and the expectation might be that the author did some research, tried different things, and was trying to write from a more objective or all encompassing view point. I have the same problem with articles where the title will read like it's going to be a regular news article but instead it's a 6000 word story on the authors journey to uncover the information and how it made them feel yadda yadda. Not really the publishers fault, I'm sure their reader base knows what to expect (I know I've learned to stop clicking links to The Atlantic), but ends up misleading the potential reader from elsewhere a bit. When this happens I think the fault is with the aggregator not allowing or enforcing proper information labelling. Not the author being disingenuous.

dkonofalski 7y ago
Maybe this is why all my posts are being downvoted, then. I obviously missed the boat on the whole "personal blog" thing. When I think of a personal blog, I think that the person is writing their personal opinion about something that they've concluded in good faith. This article, specifically, doesn't seem like it was written in good faith to me and so, as a result, comes off as nothing but complaining for the sake of complaining. I'm not asking for anyone to prevent people from complaining but I just don't think it has any value when even the complaints come from an inherently biased place that doesn't even acknowledge its bias. I'm only saying this because I updated to Catalina without going through the betas first and I haven't had any issues whatsoever. To read something like this that is so negative about it seems like astroturfing or manipulation, especially when the only articles this website has ever posted on HN are all critical of Apple.