Most of these are absolute whiny bullshit. Half of these are about progress. 32 bit app support? Yeah no shit, this isn’t windows. They’re gonna move forward at some point.
If half your library is 32-bit Valve games sure but just because Steam warns you, doesn’t mean it’s broke. As I don’t play any Valve games (CSGO, TF2, etc), the 32-bit games I do have will run just fine on apple silicon. Haven’t found one game in my library that won’t work due to 32-bit.
Didn’t forget the ability to uninstall pre-installed apps without compromising security and locking you out of updates (you need to modify the system image which affects SIP and also doesn’t allow you to use FileVault disk encryption once disabled)…
I’ve been using OS X / macOS for over 20 years now, often alongside some Linux or *BSD distro or another. For the past 10 I’ve been exclusively using macOS, but recently I’ve started thinking of ditching it for Linux.
The OS just gets more closed down over time, includes more and more really fucking creepy surveillance features, loses actually useful features, and gains bugs. Apple also has an incredibly annoying habit of coming up with new and possibly useful features that they introduce and then just leave to languish, or replace with a similar but more broken one; Automator & Shortcuts is a pretty good example of this. Or Aperture & iPhoto/Photos.
Aperture & iPhoto
KDE neon is pretty slick. Plasma 6 is a big step. Still lacks a decent replacement for Photoshop (no, gimp sucks).
Why pay for Photoshop when Photopea is free and does what 90% of Photoshop users actually need to do? Also, GIMP has come a long way, it’s more usable than ever and gets better with every new release.
Anyone arguing for Mobile Me and PowerPC apps is a crazy person.
This is a bizarre list that lacks context. Also, much of this functionality still exists, but it’s been rebranded or moved.
There are some awesome games I grew up playing that I can’t run anymore. Like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5PTq7vXA4
You’d be surprised how much of this stuff has new ports, community ports, or can be run in an emulator.
Here is EV Nova:
http://escape-velocity.games/
That said, IMHO, compatibility from the Apple / Microsoft isn’t what really made this one hard to play. The developer went out of business and turned off some servers that the game needed. It looks like the community had to build off of a cracked copy of the game.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/@YesterYearsMacGames/videos
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
The big one for me is Time Machine lost the ability to delete that has already been backed up.
So if you work with very large files and they fills your backup drive… that’s it. You need to either buy a new drive or erase it completely (losing all your historical backups). With the old Time Machine you could go through it and delete half a terabyte of data that never really needed to be backed up.
