OS Tahoe : Is this the road to madness ?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

… or am I just a grumpy old Luddite who can’t keep up with progress ?

For the moment, at least, I am sticking with Sequoia

MichaelG.

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[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

Windows 95 does all I need. 😉

Martin.

[GreensandsParticipant @greensands]

I’m still using Windows 95 running on a P406 desktop with my Compucut CNC driven milling machine.

[Clive FosterParticipant @clivefoster55965]

MichealG

I did the upgrade from Sequoia to MacOS 26.2 Tahoe (I never upgrade on a .1 version of anything) and found the thing pretty much seamless.  Except for the usual “Why did they re-decorate things” moan. Everything any normal old fart needs to do works just like it did.

Lots of re-decoration and re-arrangement crap for the folk who feel confined by the standard layout, far fewer than journalists or influencers claim methinks, that can safely be ignored by normal folk.

About the only change I use is the ability make Finder automatically re-size column view to include full lengths of file names. Aesthetically not as good as the old fixed width columns but sometimes nice to see full names.

One nice point is the double ended arrow that appears as you approach or run over the edge or corner of a window which I find easier to grab than the old style when re-sizing a window.

From a non-old fart who knows exactly how to do what he wants perspective :-

I can see people who run a business on a Mac making considerable use of the vastly expanded search and result organisation capabilities of Spotlight and its AI assistants. Appear to go a long way towards having someone to do the filing for you. But setting up looks to be something only to be done when well rested with no distractions. If the ability to transcribe audio works as well as it appears in the link it would being great help for folk who do lots of work over the phone. However good your note taking its never as satisfactory as having both sides of the conversation written down in front of you, something it looks to be capable of doing. Automatic summarisation looks good too. A friends daughter is a McKenzie Friend so there are lots of “hour long” phone calls and associated notes to keep straight. Which is a considerable admin burden for a one woman band with three children and a dog to look after. If that works as well as it appears to it would make her life much easier.

I’d have found that transcription ability along with the summarising, self filing and locating capabilities very helpful in my days as a Consultant R&D type. Whether I’d have had the patience and dedication to set it up or not when the way I’d evolved worked well enough being a whole n’other question.

Clive

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Thanks for the very helpful note, Clive

Perhaps I just hit on the wrong video … I will explore further.

MichaelG.

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