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For those with Nvidia GPUs, may I suggest (as per previous comments[0]) that you download the Nvidia BETA drivers[1] for your system. (Disclaimer: at your peril — and for your relevant device... This can be hard to figure-out as what your Mac says your GPU is, in my case a 750M GT, is actually classed as a GeForce GTX 680 :') -- what I've linked to)

Seems to have done a decent job at patching up some of the more serious un-usability that High Sierra caused me and my Mac.

Moving to High Sierra was the worst performance-wise update I made to my Mac. I'm so disappointed with Apple's sluggish reaction to these issues, that have been reported in high numbers[2], from months ago...

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15729265

[1] - http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/127670/en-...

[2] - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/10736#issuecomme...

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In hindsight the best decisions I've made this year regarding the enjoyment of my Apple devices was not upgrading from iOS 10, and not upgrading to High Sierra. I really want to buy new Apple products and enjoy them but the company doesn't make hardware or software I want anymore.

Don't even talk to me about iOS 11... Upgraded from a (somewhat sluggish, but usable) 5S on iOS 10, to a new iPhone 8 on iOS 11... The snappiness in apps is all there (which is what I wanted), but man the bugs! One of my current gripes is that I can only be 80% sure a photo I'm taking will save to camera-roll... I thought I'd lost all of my videos from Christmas Day morning until they spontaneously appeared 10 minutes later.

Trying to post to Instagram Stories is another fun game that tends to fail 50% of the time.

Interesting, I haven’t noticed any major issues with my iPhone 8.

Same with an 8+, switched from a 6, so much better.

> I really want to buy new Apple products and enjoy them but the company doesn't make hardware or software I want anymore.

Problem solved! Move on to buying things you do want.

Realistically, nothing matches macOS in terms of beautiful simplicity with a vast range of apps for designers/artists.

Every other solution requires major hacking and customization (VMs, emulators, obscure OS', lacking in compatibility, mobile integration, backups)

Apple users are complaining so loudly now because they had it good for so long and now it's fleeting.

Wow, thanks for this suggestion! I was having some major graphical issues on a 2013 Macbook Pro with a GT 750M to the point where I was disabling GPU hardware acceleration in everything, the worst being flashes of an old framebuffer when trying to playback video. The NVIDIA drivers definitely seem way better so far.

Thanks! - I was also having major performance problems on my 2013 MBP with the 750M GT. These drivers seem to have fixed it!

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