I love my Mac computer. It does things Windows doesn't do. But sometimes upgrades can drive you crazy. The Mac people love to "improve" things. But they are expert users and don't always account for the difficulties changes can make for a regular user.
They think "Well, now you just go here in 3 steps, then over there for a couple and you have better features. And if you have a problem then just reboot from the safety startup holding down 3 keys, and redo this and then that from your backup and then..."
As if that was simple and obvious. And to them it is. To me it is nearly gibberish, assumes that I know where everything is on the computer, and even know all the terms they use.
I sometimes wish they would just leave the damn OS alone for a while. I like my OS as it was, and I like most of my apps as they are. I don't mind security improvements. But I wish they would stop obsoleting my apps!
So I'm writing this to warn Mac users about upgrading to Sequoia 15.2. 15.1 one didn't mess up my computer; 15.2 really did! Photos is bizarre in 15.2. I used to just plug in my camera, go to Photos, turn on the camera, and it automatically showed my the new pics to but uploaded. Now, I have to go find the camera as a "device" through a couple of menus were are not obvious. And since one of my major uses is Photos, that is a real problem.
And Mac seems to be trying to force users onto ICloud!
So, if you are Mac user on Sonora, be VERY cautious about upgrading to Sequoia of either current version. You get locked in. Reseting to Sonoma seems to be a real bitch of a process! It seems, that if you don't make a backup of everything at the end of your daily use, everything you did since the previous backup can be lost. And I don't mean your last Time Machine app backup. They say Time Machine won't help you revert this OS!
And speaking of upgrades, Firefox seems to do it weekly. Which wipes out all your saved logins. Yeah, just login again, but that gets pretty tiring.
Blowing off some steam!
