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    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.

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    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)…

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      I have a non-retina running 11, and it’s antialiased. So, lies.

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        The new font smoothing is not the same with the subpixel anti aliasing it replaced. Thin text on non-retina monitors looks worse now than before. Most people probably don’t notice it, but for those that do it was a major downgrade.

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    The missed Preview’s recent loss of the ability to open Postscript and EPS files. That was a real bummer

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    I don’t think this is a popular opinion, but for me Yosemite to Catalina was perfect looks wise. Mac OS became real ugly with Big Sur.
    I dunno, I just really miss the gradients and the new design language of merging buttons and titlebar into one thick ass titlebar is plain horrendous to me.