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I've read enough of buggy behaviors on MacOS that I'm not sure I'd buy a Mac today. Wasn't their new filesystem a giant mess? Even the shiny new M1 had SSD wear

I've read enough of buggy behaviors on MacOS that I'm not sure I'd buy a Mac today. Wasn't their new filesystem a giant mess? Even the shiny new M1 had SSD wear problems in the beginning, hmm, great QA, guys!

Slippery_John 5y ago
A recent Windows update caused frequent BSODs with a fun variety of error codes. This would happen fast enough that I couldn't even roll back the update. So I had to wipe my hard drive and re-install the entire OS from a flash drive. I've never had a macOS update cause such a catastrophic failure.
dsego 5y ago
4096 files is the limit when reading from SD cards on a Mac (not windows). https://youtu.be/0bqOB_XGBVE https://youtu.be/0bqOB_XGBVE
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Interesting. But the video is way too manic (too many cuts, guy too animated and shouty) that watching him gives me anxiety.
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
Actually I think the rollout of APFS was one of their more impressive technical achievements. They wholesale updated iOS 10.3 to the new filesystem without any issues. The only downside to it is it is probably a bit heavy for traditional drives, it really needs an SSD.
pjc50 5y ago
Back in the 2004 era Windows was far more notorious for BSODs, but in the intervening time they've put a lot of work into fixing that. Mostly in drivers; things like WHQL, and the amazing subsystem that allows the graphics drivers to crash and recover with only a momentary black screen. The Longhorn project did include an attempt at doing a fancy new filesystem, more database flavoured; I'm not sure if they ever finalized the feature list, much less got it working, and now everything ships with NTFS which is slow but reliable.
thejohnconway 5y ago
> Wasn't their new filesystem a giant mess? No? It was a very smooth rollout (even more impressive if you consider it also rolled out to all iOS devices). I can’t think of a similarly large technical change that went so smoothly. There are things to complain about with the software quality of Macs, but the file system isn’t one of them in my opinion.
GeekyBear 5y ago
Given that Windows Update has deleted user data for the last three years running, there really isn't room for people in glass houses to throw rocks.

Slippery_John 5y ago

A recent Windows update caused frequent BSODs with a fun variety of error codes. This would happen fast enough that I couldn't even roll back the update. So I had to wipe my hard drive and re-install the entire OS from a flash drive. I've never had a macOS update cause such a catastrophic failure.

dsego 5y ago

4096 files is the limit when reading from SD cards on a Mac (not windows). https://youtu.be/0bqOB_XGBVE https://youtu.be/0bqOB_XGBVE

bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Interesting. But the video is way too manic (too many cuts, guy too animated and shouty) that watching him gives me anxiety.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago

Actually I think the rollout of APFS was one of their more impressive technical achievements. They wholesale updated iOS 10.3 to the new filesystem without any issues. The only downside to it is it is probably a bit heavy for traditional drives, it really needs an SSD.

pjc50 5y ago

Back in the 2004 era Windows was far more notorious for BSODs, but in the intervening time they've put a lot of work into fixing that. Mostly in drivers; things like WHQL, and the amazing subsystem that allows the graphics drivers to crash and recover with only a momentary black screen. The Longhorn project did include an attempt at doing a fancy new filesystem, more database flavoured; I'm not sure if they ever finalized the feature list, much less got it working, and now everything ships with NTFS which is slow but reliable.

thejohnconway 5y ago

> Wasn't their new filesystem a giant mess? No? It was a very smooth rollout (even more impressive if you consider it also rolled out to all iOS devices). I can’t think of a similarly large technical change that went so smoothly. There are things to complain about with the software quality of Macs, but the file system isn’t one of them in my opinion.

GeekyBear 5y ago

Given that Windows Update has deleted user data for the last three years running, there really isn't room for people in glass houses to throw rocks.