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Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra (venturebeat.com)
Apple's next big macOS update is coming this fall, the company announced at its developer conference Monday. Apple is improving macOS Sierra, fixing bugs and making existing features and components faster and more reliable. The new version is called High Sierra. From a report: The update includes new features for Safari, with an update that stops autoplaying videos; Mail, with a new split-view mode; and Photos, with improved face detection, editing, and photo printing features. Apple is also bringing the Apple File System to Macs, after adding the technology to iOS in March. Apple is also bringing new virtual reality support to Macs with the Metal 2 framework.
Having tried Sierra twice, followed by rolling back to El Capitan twice - I can only hope that High Sierra isn't a steaming pile of horse dung.
However I think suspect they will continue to remove features and call it progress. E.g. Like how they're removing user's ability to have a keychain password which doesn't match the user's login password (per Apple's reply appended to a "won't fix" designation on a bug report submission). I sometimes wonder how much longer we're going to have a terminal.
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Especially for those of us who have fond memories of Snow Leopard. Back in the days when successive OSX releases made the system faster and more responsive, even on the same hardware.
macOS could definitely use a mostly bug-fixes and performance improvements release. Windows is still the champ when it comes to flaky behavior and unintelligible errors, but macOS has been drifting in that direction over the last few releases.
Scrape the weird stuff off of Preview and Mail, and I will strongly consider an iMac Pro.
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
This is comparable to the update from Lion to Mountain Lion, or to El Capitan from Yosemite (the park that encompasses El Capitan). Mountain Lion was a great OS due to its stability and the under-the-hood changes. I'd much rather have High Sierra be a stability and deep improvement release like Mountain Lion than a bunch of flashy jewjaws like more Messages Apps (that nobody actually uses).
Hah Mountain what?, what a joke, they started bloating it way back, 10.6 was probably the most stable and complete OS X will ever be - as close to an LTS release model Apple ever got, now it's just a creature of almost pure feature creep and hardware obsoletion... It was nice for a while - a bit of BSD+GNU+POSIX+XNU+ just the right amount of Apple's arrogance and insanity sprinkled on top for some unification, around 10.6 that felt just about right... but now the insanity is taking centre stage and all previous technical advantages within a cushy UI are far outweighed, so back to ugly interfaces so I can regain some control and at least escape the cruft and madness.