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People remember fondly of Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but the introduction of Snow Leopard 10.6.0 was very rough, certainly not bug free. Snow Leopard did change a lot
by Xixi 7y ago
People remember fondly of Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but the introduction of Snow Leopard 10.6.0 was very rough, certainly not bug free. Snow Leopard did change a lot of things under the hood (64-bit mostly, maybe Grand Central Dispatch).
At the time I was depending on macports to install a lot of dev dependencies: mono was broken, and a bunch of other libraries were also not compiling anymore. It is to this day the only macOS (then Mac OS X) release that I had to downgrade from. But I'm more cautious now... still running Mojave.
That said on principle I agree: I want an OS that works better and faster, not more features.
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoBertrand Serlet used to go through ps output looking for threads so he could berate managers about not using GCD. So we had to uproot a bunch of stuff just to change the threading model used. It was a strange way to manage tens of thousands of people.