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There is really no reason to keep on adding stuff to OSX/MacOS. It's done. It does everything it needs to do. It has been done for something like a decade. It s
by egypturnash 4y ago
There is really no reason to keep on adding stuff to OSX/MacOS. It's done. It does everything it needs to do. It has been done for something like a decade. It should be in maintenance mode, with bugs being fixed as they show up and nothing really changing.
And yet every year there's a new version. Mostly it's a bunch of new features on the bundled programs that I don't ever touch. And a new skin on the GUI. Sometimes it breaks something that was working just fine; I personally quit staying up to date when I balked at a new OS whose main feature was "broke all 32-bit apps forever". I finally upgraded to the latest version in the past few months so I can deal with getting stuff working on the M2 Air I'll be getting soon. Preparing for that has made me replace two perfectly-functional drawing tablets because Wacom's newest drivers won't support them and the ones that do predate the M1.
Honestly I doubt I'm gonna be upgrading that M1 from whatever OS it comes with until the latest version of Illustrator stops working on it, or Apple stops doing bugfix releases. Or if I have to replace it because it gets broken. I just do not need this endless cycle of change for its own sake, done by people whose idea of what a computer "should" be is increasingly shaped by growing up with an iPhone in their hand instead of an 8-bit computer on their desk.
- jononomo 4y agoYeah, I completely agree -- the MacOS is finished and should be in long term maintenance mode for the next 25 years. We should turn our attention to other problems.
- metadat 4y ago> I doubt I'm gonna be upgrading that M1 from whatever OS it comes with until the latest version of Illustrator stops working on it, or Apple stops doing bugfix releases Unfortunately security updates are more important than ever and patching old OS versions is not a high priority for any OS vendor. Even Ubuntu LTS only gets critical updates for something like 5 years. The tragic reality is too many thousands of people's jobs at Apple depend on delivering new features for it ever to go into maintenance mode.