I have a 14" M1 MBP that was doing just dandy until Ventura came along and now my battery life is a joke. It drains a ton from just light coding sessions (I'm talking 30% in 90 mins or so).
I've also had to manually fix permissions problems on directories that in the UI do not show as granted, but are actually enabled and allowing file reads/writes (the UI is just showing that permissions haven't been granted when they have, which is incredibly dangerous).
However, I've really enjoyed Ventura, because of the following (non-exhaustive list):
* As a Mac admin: enterprise managed updates actually work compared to Monterey!
* As a Mac developer: SwiftUI graphics rendering is significantly faster, closing in on AppKit levels of performance with no changes required!
As a regular user:
* A battery life leak that I noticed with Monterey 12.6.1 was fixed and my battery life became much better
* The Weather app is absolutely amazing
* Live Text is even better than before
One issue that's been irking me is that I've had a lot more accidental Siri triggers while talking to other people, and even while watching movies and videos through the speakers. I'm going to re-do the Hey Siri set up to see if it fixes the issue.
Apple really needs another 10.6 "Snow Leopard" style release: no new features, just stability and speed.
this is one of the areas where Apple is really bad. no security updates on the N-1 generation OS immediately after new one is released??
They definitely do ship software updates (and Safari updates), they’re just more selective about it. 0-days and whatever are usually patched.
While I'd love to be able to go back to my Thinkpad Debian life, the idea of leaving the combination of a great screen, superb battery life, large developer ecosystem, and (newly, the butterfly keys were trash) ok keyboard would make me want to cry.
To get my linux fix, I just use Multipass.
The butterfly keys were a brilliant system that was objectively better than the keys they replaced (and were in turn replaced by). Unfortunately, people preferred the "feel" of the old keys (myself included). They also broke constantly and expensively in the early generations (although Apple picked up the tab on this in the end).
I use the HHKB full time now, but if I had to use the stock keyboard, my first choice would the 2016 butterfly keyboard (pre-membrane).
I have large hands and often bottom out on keys/keyboards. I went though three macbooks in two years at my last job. The new macbooks, I have no problem.