Comment by t-writescode

Comment by t-writescode a day ago

It must be exhausting and stressful being an OS dev or dev team. I haven't experienced any of the troubles that are referenced here; and, the one complaint I've had over the years was resolved, like, on the very next update.

I use my mac for IntelliJ and Firefox. I guess maybe my usage surface is just really, really small; but I basically never have any problems ... and then others come along and say they're having huge issues.

I see the various updates as they happen and like ... all of them are neutral or minor inconveniences that are resolved next patch, for me.

hshdhdhj4444 a day ago

Must it?

Very few of these complaints existed when Apple had a more reasonable update schedule for the Mac releasing a new update every 2 years or so.

The Mac’s current update schedule isn’t being driven by the needs of the OS or its customers but by the need to align with iOS.

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t-writescode a day ago

They might have been fewer, sure. I haven't followed Mac issues as, again, I haven't really seen them, outside of the huge ones that get fixed quickly and are whole events.
But, operating systems can be interacting with thousands of different types of components, monitors, external graphics cards, keyboards, mice, printers, etc, in a whole array of different configurations. Nothing like Windows or Linux experience, of course; but not a small number of different situations, each of which can impact the machines in strange ways. And I imagine that's quite hard to track down. You can minimize it, of course, but it's not nothing.

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