My 16" M1 MBP was bricked by the Sonoma update and had to be wiped by Apple. Fortunately, I keep most things on external drives. But it's still an egregious QA failure on Apple's part, as witnessed by the increasing number of reports.
And Sonoma appears to be riddled with odd little bugs, manifesting as UI failures. Windows don't come up, or they come up behind others when previously they didn't. For example, disk images, when mounted, open a window as usual but that window appears behind others on the desktop so you're left wondering what happened.
I just had keyboard input rejected with "boink" noises in a dialog raised by Safari, over and over. In the end I couldn't log into the site.
The "About this Mac" item in the Apple menu did nothing, over and over...
and sure enough, I just tried this, and it happened again. But when I started Screenshot to capture it and file a bug, it started working. This is the second day in a row this has happened.
I feel like I live in a parallel universe sometimes when I complain about things randomly breaking or never actually working and they say ‘I’ve been using MacBooks for the past ten years and literally nothing bad happened ever’ and here I am just about to break the one year milestone and I just don’t see the mythical Apple level of quality.
The thing is that Apple devices are so widely used, that even if 0.1% of the users encounters an issue, it's still a huge number of people. Added to that, people who run into issues are more likely to complain online than people who don't. So, you don't live in a parallel universe, you're just one of the unlucky 0.1%.
And yes, I have been using Macs for 16 years and have never had a catastrophic issue and neither one of my friends of family. The worst problem was kinda self-inflicted, pre-SIP I was once typing something along the lines onf sudo rm -rf /Library and then accidentally pressed enter. Yay for backups.
Oh, I can reasonably consistently kernel panic sonoma on m1, simply by using fullscreen zoom in accessibility and streaming video.
I think that's my last bug report, as none of my feedback/bug reports, which are very detailed, and some cause data loss/corruption.
0 feedback, 0 fixes. Total waste of time.
I wonder where their software quality and consistency team went to. If you'd release similar buggy software when the AppStore on iPhone became available, your app would simply not pass the quality criteria.
Debian looks awfully nice these days, especially combined with proxmox / passthrough devices
>My 16" M1 MB was bricked by the Sonoma update and had to be wiped by Apple.
If it could be restored by wiping the SSD, it’s not bricking. It’s terrible, for sure, but bricking means your device turns into one and you might as well throw it away. If it’s recoverable via software, it’s not bricked.
> Windows … come up behind others when previously they didn't.
m1 16" MBP here, this happened to me on the last OS version too. Still happens on Sonoma.
For about 1 year (a few years back) I had an issue where on my three external Samsung monitors (all in portrait orientation) there was a strip about 4cm all across the bottom of all of them, and up the right side of the right monitor where the mouse wouldn't go. Apple couldn't work it out, spent hours talking to them about it. In the end an OS update fixed it.
No this happens every Mac OS release for the last 20+ years.
Sonoma has literally just been released and we only recently had the first major patch. So there will be bugs both known and unknown. Almost all by definition not fixed.
As always if you are doing mission critical work then for any piece of software you should always hold off upgrading until at least a few major patches have been released.
And Sonoma appears to be riddled with odd little bugs, manifesting as UI failures. Windows don't come up, or they come up behind others when previously they didn't. For example, disk images, when mounted, open a window as usual but that window appears behind others on the desktop so you're left wondering what happened.
I just had keyboard input rejected with "boink" noises in a dialog raised by Safari, over and over. In the end I couldn't log into the site.
The "About this Mac" item in the Apple menu did nothing, over and over...
and sure enough, I just tried this, and it happened again. But when I started Screenshot to capture it and file a bug, it started working. This is the second day in a row this has happened.
It's looking like a shitty Mac OS release.