14.4, the “most stable one”, is breaking things all around… again. After 5 rounds.
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I have had Zero issues with Sonoma
I run it on all Mac’s I got.
I hate the Control panel design but I don’t stay all day in the control panel so its a non issue.
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Surely there’s a safe zone. For example, you won’t lose iCloud files if you don’t use iCloud.
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I have a cute Sonoma issue: two screens, on both I have a number of spaces. On the smaller one, I display a screen from another Mac via screen-sharing. It’s our local file server that runs headless so it’s useful to be able to have a remote screen on my own machine.
Now the fun part: whenever I display the space that has this screen-shared desktop of the other Mac AND that space is made full-screen (green button), then on my larger display there appears a large black rectangle the same height/width (pixels) of the shared screen. Shift the smaller screen to another space and away goes the black rectangle. Shift the smaller screen back to the shared-screen-space and the black rectangle comes back.
Edit: and, en plus, Lightroom 5 is AT BEST unstable under Sonoma 14.4.
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the last macos is almost always the most unstable !
Sonoma is stable. I’ll test all os versions and then decide to use or skip them. From SnowLeopard to HighSierra to Mojave to Monterey and now to Sonoma.
None of them was free of errors, but they have been or are a stable basis to do my all day work.
Not a stable system for Lightroom 5 however.
For whatever reason, I’ve usually managed to stay on current on my system over the years and dodge the issues that have cropped up. Not this time. Sonoma has busted printing to my HP laser printer, left weird visual anomalies all over my screen, and possibly disabled a USB docking station. Very surprising - my impression is that Apple has gotten pretty good at vetting incremental updates.
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I find that Finder crashes twice a day since corporate forced us to upgrade three weeks ago.
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I blame the CEO style.
Jobs:
– Is it ready?
– Almost
– We need to release more betas and test more. Make this thing stable ASAP! I’ll announce the release next year.
Cook:
– Is it ready?
– No way. We’ll need at least more 6 months.
– Too late, we’ll announce it next month, you have 2 weeks to release the dot.zero.
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There are reports that USB devices no longer work.
There are reports that the update is bricking Macs.
My own MBA seems to be working, but I only use that for testing software and browsing the web.
The last two Ventura updates have added bugs, every day I get an additional Ethernet port added to my work Mac (but not in real life).
Some Netflix shows won’t play in Safari anymore, work fine in FireFox, but are quality reduced.
Cook and his team continue to prove that they have no pride in their work, they would literally sell their own mother for another million dollars. Which is really sad, because there are still factions in Apple who really do care, but are overshadowed by the general direction of the company.
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Those Venture bugs updates I believe are designed to get users to update to Sonoma. And Netflix snows playing one days in Safari and then the next not makes no sense.
I never move to a dot.0 macOS release. Usually wait it reaching reports of stability around dot.2. Reaching dot.4 unstable AND breaking things that worked in dot.3 is just ridiculous. After dot.3 we should have just minor issues affecting 1 in 999999 AND having workarounds.
Probably related to some new “increased security” feature blocking Widevine decoder updates.
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Oh, I will happily agree with that, but I don’t think it’s to get you to update to Sonoma, it’s to get you to buy a new Mac. F-I-L had to buy a new iPhone, because S-I-L updated his phone, and the last update to his old one broke Mandarin text entry, and broke it hard, phone would crash after entering more than 5 characters. Because Apple stopped signed older iOS releases, the only way to get a working iPhone, was to buy a newer one that could update to an OS version where they’d fixed this “bug”.
The Netflix bug doesn’t make any sense either, some shows work fine, its not even to do with quality.
Me neither, I honestly thought it was safe to update, but then I started getting these new Ethernet connections, so when 13.6.5 came out, I downloaded it in the hopes it would solve it. I was wrong.
Could be for all I know, I doubt Netflix actually wants to encourage Apple customers to update to the latest OS version, because that helps Apple, and we all know what Netflix thinks of Apple.
Both my printer and external hard drive are no longer are seen by my M2 Mac Studio since 14.4.
I am currently unable to run backups and it’s making me nervous.
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Try disconnecting all of your devices, rebooting and then once you’re logged in, reconnect each device one at a time. If there’s a dialog about the device, allow it. That worked for me.
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Lightroom 5 was first published back in 2013 for macOS X 10.7 / 10.8. Maybe time for an update to a more recent version?
They only seem to offer a subscription version these days.
And so, you will stay with a non-functional version ?
Unclear at this point. I need to look at GraphicsConverter.