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macOS needs another Snow Leopard. It was a bit of a one off OS release from Apple, and instead of being an intense focus on new features, the whole point of th
by esskay 3y ago
macOS needs another Snow Leopard.
It was a bit of a one off OS release from Apple, and instead of being an intense focus on new features, the whole point of that release was to improve stability and performance.
They removed a ton of legacy support, but in the process gave all the core operating system mechanics a much needed house cleaning to improve performance. It breathed new life into older macs and made the OS significantly faster and more stable.
Since then we've had tons of bloat brought back in, then removed again, then added back in again (see widgets for example). It's time for another Snow Leopard.
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoOr just adopt a bi-annual major release cadence.
- microtonal 3y agoWhen are y’all hoping to release today? This is a popular sentiment, but the last few releases were pretty tame feature-wise, and Monterey and Ventura have been quite solid for me. I think we are also looking back with rose-tinted glasses. I have been using macOS since 10.4/10.5 and those releases were quite rough. Even the initial 10.6 (Snow Leopard) releases were quite buggy, it was only towards the end of the end of the 10.6 release cycle (which was still two years) that it got really solid. Especially the releases after Apple lost interest in the Mac (when they proclaimed the iPad was the future of computing) and later the Intel Mac were horrible. The mid to late 2010s were particularly horrible for Mac users. Bad hardware (the faulty butterfly keyboard, only 1 or 2 USB-C ports on many models, CPUs that got too hot for the limited cooling) and very buggy macOS releases.
- ulfw 3y agoWe've been doing Snow Leopard for the last few years. There's not been major feature releases. Just a bunch of little things here and there really.