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MacOS has become extremely buggy. Just last week I had to factory reset (!!!) my Macbook, losing all data on it, because Apple's update caused some system corruption. Next year, once a good laptop with a Qualcomm Elite X or Meteor Lake CPU will be released (they should have much better thermals and power consumption than current processors), I will migrate away from Apple and I already replaced all my other devices with non-apple products.

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This is purely anecdotal. My experience, also anecdotal, is that I've used Macs for 30 years and have never had an OS update corrupt a computer and I've never had to do a "factory reset". I always transfer from computer to computer (either directly or via a Time Machine backup) and I buy a new MacBook at least every other year (I keep separate personal and work computers also). I've never had any problems that weren't fixed by a restart or that weren't specific to one piece of software.

I’ve tried going back to the Mac OS X days of not updating till at least X.x.2, but only for iOS this time.

Unfortunately that’s not how iOS development seems to work and minor releases seem as buggy as the major releases, sometimes bringing completely new bugs altogether.

It’s been a while since I’ve used a Mac in my day to day so I can’t really comment on that side of things, but my wife who had all the passion of a recent convert for the Mac over the past 2 years has completely soured on it due to bugs since the last release.

I see issues with her laptop that I never saw during the 15 years or so a Mac was my only computer, including a completely frozen desktop that I’d never seen despite the fact that I owned a Mac at a time where I had several KEXTs installed.

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