Apple issues first developer beta of macOS 11.2 [U]

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  macquadra840av Posts: 207member

  December 17, 2020 12:20AM

  So it does look like they are changing their version numbering to match iOS, as macOS becomes more and more like iOS.  More and more locked down.  Now you have to restart just to install a printer driver, after a number of pop-up warnings just to install the software.

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  canukstorm Posts: 2,784member

  December 17, 2020 1:40AM

  MacQuadra840av said:

  So it does look like they are changing their version numbering to match iOS, as macOS becomes more and more like iOS.  More and more locked down.  Now you have to restart just to install a printer driver, after a number of pop-up warnings just to install the software.

  So you automatically macOS is becoming more locked down because of a change in version numbering?

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  macquadra840av Posts: 207member

  December 17, 2020 2:35AM

  canukstorm said:

  MacQuadra840av said:

  So it does look like they are changing their version numbering to match iOS, as macOS becomes more and more like iOS.  More and more locked down.  Now you have to restart just to install a printer driver, after a number of pop-up warnings just to install the software.

  So you automatically macOS is becoming more locked down because of a change in version numbering?

  Did you even read what I said?  It is becoming more like iOS, which is more locked down.  You cannot even modify the system in any way.  macOS is now contained in a locked volume, and with Big Sur, it is worse than Catalina.  Next time learn how to read and comprehend.

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  petroldave Posts: 60member

  December 17, 2020 8:17AM

  I hope they are doing something about how power hungry Big Sur 11 & 11.1 are - I have to charge my MacBook Air every 3 days instead of every 5 since the very first Big Sur betas.

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  rayz2016 Posts: 6,957member

  December 17, 2020 9:05AM

  PetrolDave said:

  I hope they are doing something about how power hungry Big Sur 11 & 11.1 are - I have to charge my MacBook Air every 3 days instead of every 5 since the very first Big Sur betas.

  Have you reported it?

  

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  elijahg Posts: 2,889member

  December 17, 2020 11:34AM

  MacQuadra840av said:

  So it does look like they are changing their version numbering to match iOS, as macOS becomes more and more like iOS.  More and more locked down.  Now you have to restart just to install a printer driver, after a number of pop-up warnings just to install the software.

  The extra security is fine for your grandma, but it keeps getting in the way for power users and there's no way to turn it off. Broken kernel extensions due to Apple converting to DriverKit are common, Apple's own replacement drivers for common hardware are buggy and unreliable. Modifying kexts as a dev results in all sorts of hoops you have to jump through to get things running. Apple now runs the system from a snapshot, resulting in programs running from some weird "app translocation", which breaks X11 and other cross platform apps that refer to their own application paths - because they aren't running from where they think they are.
  
  There are hard links all over the place to get the snapshots to work, and the partitioning scheme is a mess of volumes. My iMac has 11 partitions, two of which are for Windows, the rest are Mac related. There is the actual APFS volume sat atop an APFS container, atop a CoreStorage volume atop a synthesised disk atop a GUID partition scheme atop the actual disk. If any one of those has a couple of bits flipped, its game over for the rest of the overcomplex stack. You can't even debug system issues with the console any more, as most messages are <private> without an Apple profile. The immutable "security" features are turning macOS into a closed system. Bloat and overcomplexity is growing at a Microsoft-like rate right now too, however Windows on the same iMac actually feels quite a bit faster than macOS does.

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  xyzzy-xxx Posts: 214member

  December 17, 2020 2:01PM

  I also hope macOS does not become more locked down an that Apple will lift some restrictions:
  - No target disk mode on Apple Silicon Macs
  - SW check against Apple server (option to opt out was announced recently)
  - Application firewalls cannot filter network traffic from Apple
  - Better read only file system (Finder cannot save window size from system volume)

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  petroldave Posts: 60member

  December 17, 2020 5:41PM

  Rayz2016 said:

  PetrolDave said:

  I hope they are doing something about how power hungry Big Sur 11 & 11.1 are - I have to charge my MacBook Air every 3 days instead of every 5 since the very first Big Sur betas.

  Have you reported it?

  Yes I have via the feedback app.

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