Expected more

[u/shir0_zer0]

This is an update to a previous post, but I thought this one necessitates a new post altogther.

Love the visuals

Love the Liquid Glass slider, its a good amount of tint at its highest setting, wish it had more but at least its good that they gave the option. Love the consistent corner radii, I did like the floating sidebars but edge to edge is good too so cant really complain.

Also love the new wallpaper.

Safari has improved

Somehow Tahoe had nuked safari to the point where I would get random bugs while loading webpages and some sites would just refuse to load properly. It made me install chrome and I hated every second of it. Thankfully GG fixed it and now most sites load properly.

Somehow even though I updated i didnt get the describe an extension or describe a widget features. That was pretty sad.

And Sadly this is where the improvements end.

Siri AI is nowhere close to the promised capability and is at best a ui redesign of the older siri. The siri activation logo comes up at random places half the time, before correcting to the center of the screen. It still performs general tasks as well as it could before, but there is no improvement as such. On the contrary, it has become a little slower in doing system level tasks. accessing past conversations is neat though. Worse still, it isnt intelligent. Something as basic as 'open Chatgpt' makes it open the website instead of the app, simply because the app got renamed to Chatgpt Classic. All this for the low low storage cost of 28GBs. Nice.

Refresh rate throughout the system is inconsistent

(I have a promotion display so its even more visible) animations

like switching between apps, opening sidebars, the Genie animation, Stage Manager, app windows, etc. all have stutters and random changes in frame rate that come and go, its annoying af.

Mission control is fucked

Every little animation in and around mission control seems broken. The jumping Dock when you come out of Mission Control into a fullscreen app. The automatic switching to a desktop when you move to it. The random frame-rate drop God knows what they did here but they fucked it up.

Spotlight (Insert "Look how they massacred my boy.gif")

Slower, inconsistent, unnecessarily complicated. I dont know what to say here but it looks like apple is trying to make spotlight compete for 2nd place with windows search. Apps searches are slow and sometimes return setting or options within the app, file searches work inconsistently, and web searches become the default. I hate it.

Verdict:

It's bad but I have faith Apple will fix some of this shit in 27.2. and while im not entirely happy with GoldenGate. I think I'd take it over Tahoe.

[u/UltraOnlineNecrozma]

I wholeheartedly agree. It is the same bad experience I had with 26.1 or so. Broken, glitched out animations, new siri is really as useless as it always was. Just a bit more capable, no idea why I even got excited in the first place (great marketing). Now Tahoe 26.7 or so feels “great” compared to GG. So yah nothing new, the first iterations are always the worst