On: macOS Monterey

[sergiomattei]

I'm impressed. People really will never be satisfied.

A relatively low-key, under-the-hood Mac release? "Man I miss when the Mac was innovative. These releases are a snooze fest."

A big release, packed with features? "Man I miss when Apple cared about their OS stability. We need a new zero features snooze fest like 10.6. Take me back to Snow Leopard :("

Only HN can pull off such astounding mood swings. I know this site isn't a monolith of opinions, but come on.

[movedx → sergiomattei]

This reminds me of a conversation I heard once in London.

I was in a line for some food at a Puppet (the config management tool) conference and two guys in front of me were chatting about their Puppet runs.

One turned to the other and said, "My Puppet runs are really slow. It takes 10-15 minutes for it to run and apply state to all 15,000 servers."

I couldn't believe it. The guy was complaining about having to wait 15 minutes to apply state to 15,000 operating systems.

What is wrong with people? You haven't got to go back far to take all of this innovation away and still people aren't pleased.

[TomSwirly → sergiomattei]

These releases offer me nothing, take a big chunk of time to operate, and break my old software and device.

And bugs linger for years and never get fixed.

I think it's very reasonable to complain.

[asdff → sergiomattei]

You can do both things at the same time, add new features that don't alienate their powerusers while also having a stable OS. Maybe if Apple delivered on both counts more in recent years people wouldn't feel the need to complain so much. It was complaining after all that got them to wake up and kill the touchbar and that butterfly keyboard.

[psychometry → sergiomattei]

Wow it's almost as if multiple people comment on things here and they have different opinions!

[sergiomattei → psychometry]

I know, it's just a caricature at this point. Common, everyday tropes in HN.