> What I’ve seen on other people’s Macs or borrowed Macs has been enough
Which means he has used newer versions, and you cited him saying so.
My own iMac runs 10.14 and what I've seen of each newer version puts me off more and more, so I too have a machine that could run at least macOS 12, but it doesn't. Because I've tried friends' machines, and tried each version in Apple shops and so on, and I don't like what I see.
Is this somehow not enough for you? That we have to install it and personally use it day-to-day in order to qualify our opinion enough?
I mean, I've been using Macs since System 7 came out. I know my way around Macs. That means it doesn't take me long to try one and see if I like it.
In fact, this week, I spent half an hour trying out macOS 13 on some M1 machines in an Apple reseller, and I didn't like it at all. Its menu bar uses a different font, is a different size, Settings has been completely revamped -- and I don't use iPhones for reasons: I've had 3 of them, and I prefer Android -- so the last thing I want is my Mac to be more iOS like.
I found this blog post really resonated with me, but your comment reads to me like you feel we haven't given it a fair enough crack of the whip and our opinions are thus invalid.
If I try out Ubuntu from a live usb for one hour and decide I don't like it, thats fine. If I then write a blog post about how my experience completely dismisses desktop Linux as broken ugly and unusable, then people will rightfully think I'm an idiot. Cheers lad.
He went into great depth in those posts. He knows this subject area exceptionally well. The first one of them, particularly, went viral and TBH I'd expect you to have known that, and to have read those earlier posts, before you start passing judgement. Otherwise you look ill-informed and ignorant, and to be judging on that basis of a lack of understanding.
In addition I'd add that I started using Mac OS X with 10.0, and on unsupported old Macs because new ones were too expensive for me to afford back then, so I hung out in various fora for people running unsupported kit.
(P.S. Don't "lad" me. I've been doing this stuff for more than a third of a century, and that's professionally, after nearly a decade as a hobbyist.)
I'm still in those fora and their modern continuations.
When Riccardo said that he felt that the experience had degraded since "Snow Leopard", he is merely expressing a widely-held view. Many old OS X hands feel that from 10.0 to 10.6 it got better and better, and since then, it's deteriorated and it's still doing so.
In other words, this is not a controversial or contrarian view.
First you say:
> He hasn't used a new version since High Sierra
Then you quote him saying:
> What I’ve seen on other people’s Macs or borrowed Macs has been enough
Which means he has used newer versions, and you cited him saying so.
My own iMac runs 10.14 and what I've seen of each newer version puts me off more and more, so I too have a machine that could run at least macOS 12, but it doesn't. Because I've tried friends' machines, and tried each version in Apple shops and so on, and I don't like what I see.
Is this somehow not enough for you? That we have to install it and personally use it day-to-day in order to qualify our opinion enough?
I mean, I've been using Macs since System 7 came out. I know my way around Macs. That means it doesn't take me long to try one and see if I like it.
In fact, this week, I spent half an hour trying out macOS 13 on some M1 machines in an Apple reseller, and I didn't like it at all. Its menu bar uses a different font, is a different size, Settings has been completely revamped -- and I don't use iPhones for reasons: I've had 3 of them, and I prefer Android -- so the last thing I want is my Mac to be more iOS like.
I found this blog post really resonated with me, but your comment reads to me like you feel we haven't given it a fair enough crack of the whip and our opinions are thus invalid.
Is that wrong?