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)…
10.10 Yosemite • A legible user interface
Oh burn.
In all seriousness, this is an enlightening list. I knew someone of these like save as, but not others, like loss of antialiasing on non-retina Mac’s.
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.
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.
Aperture & iPhoto
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.
RIP Back to my Mac. You were the GOAT of your era.
