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I've never understood people rushing into upgrading to the latest OS. They always have bugs, sometimes serious or hard disk erasing. Some people get excited by

by nutjob2 8mo ago

I've never understood people rushing into upgrading to the latest OS. They always have bugs, sometimes serious or hard disk erasing. Some people get excited by the "latest and greatest" but for me most macOS upgrades seem like a regression, especially with the serious memory bloat and misfeatures. I can understand upgrading for testing purposes, but on my personal machine I've always put it off as long as possible.

exegete 8mo ago
This is the third point release for the 26 series. Aren’t these primarily bugfixes? Or does Apple use a different versioning system?
- gregoriol 8mo ago
  They do x.y.z versionning where x is often a marketing version so they have to say something at the WWDC. Here on 26 it's more than marketing, but that's not always the case. y versions often contain bug fixes but also new features.
worksonmine 8mo ago
> Some people get excited by the "latest and greatest" I'm going to get down-voted for this, but doesn't this describe Apples' target audience? Every year big live streamed events showing the "latest and greatest".
willis936 8mo ago
I can help. It's security. There were multiple exploits patched in 26.3. Part of what users are paying the apple premium for is maintenance of exploits.
- ndiddy 8mo ago
  You can stay on Sequoia and still get security patches. They released 15.7.4 a few days ago. https://support.apple.com/en-us/126349 https://support.apple.com/en-us/126349
  - burnt-resistor 8mo ago
    While it works for macOS, that strategy doesn't work for iOS. Apple has broken their contract of 2 supported OS versions to force people onto iOS 26 unwillingly as a deliberate strategy by sneakily not releasing iOS 18 security updates for all devices. A manufactured Hobson's choice between usability and security updates.
gregoriol 8mo ago
That's usually true with Apple for .0 releases: never install those if you need to work with macOs, iOS, ... but this Tahoe version has revealed itself as being in a sad state even after the .1 .2 and now .3 It's not unfair for it to have earned the title of Windows Vista of macOs, something has become really wrong with the management of that release.
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schmookeeg 8mo ago
I just don't like red badges on icons.
burnt-resistor 8mo ago
Pioneers get slaughtered. It's something to test out in a VM first rather than on real hardware that may actively, permanently thwart downgrading. Living on the ragged edge for critical personal devices is generally unwise and unnecessary. And I don't think widespread proliferation of accessible betas for consumers is wise from a support perspective.

by nutjob2 8mo ago

exegete 8mo ago

This is the third point release for the 26 series. Aren’t these primarily bugfixes? Or does Apple use a different versioning system?

gregoriol 8mo ago
They do x.y.z versionning where x is often a marketing version so they have to say something at the WWDC. Here on 26 it's more than marketing, but that's not always the case. y versions often contain bug fixes but also new features.

worksonmine 8mo ago

> Some people get excited by the "latest and greatest" I'm going to get down-voted for this, but doesn't this describe Apples' target audience? Every year big live streamed events showing the "latest and greatest".

willis936 8mo ago

I can help. It's security. There were multiple exploits patched in 26.3. Part of what users are paying the apple premium for is maintenance of exploits.

ndiddy 8mo ago
You can stay on Sequoia and still get security patches. They released 15.7.4 a few days ago. https://support.apple.com/en-us/126349 https://support.apple.com/en-us/126349
- burnt-resistor 8mo ago
  While it works for macOS, that strategy doesn't work for iOS. Apple has broken their contract of 2 supported OS versions to force people onto iOS 26 unwillingly as a deliberate strategy by sneakily not releasing iOS 18 security updates for all devices. A manufactured Hobson's choice between usability and security updates.

gregoriol 8mo ago

That's usually true with Apple for .0 releases: never install those if you need to work with macOs, iOS, ... but this Tahoe version has revealed itself as being in a sad state even after the .1 .2 and now .3 It's not unfair for it to have earned the title of Windows Vista of macOs, something has become really wrong with the management of that release.

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schmookeeg 8mo ago

I just don't like red badges on icons.

burnt-resistor 8mo ago

Pioneers get slaughtered. It's something to test out in a VM first rather than on real hardware that may actively, permanently thwart downgrading. Living on the ragged edge for critical personal devices is generally unwise and unnecessary. And I don't think widespread proliferation of accessible betas for consumers is wise from a support perspective.