Increasingly getting the impression that MacOS Sonoma is a lemon, and best avoided.
Interestingly, when it bricked my M1 Pro MBP, and I had to recover from the recovery partition, it reinstalled Ventura.
And the new Macs ship with Ventura, with no Sonoma upgrade available.
Now seeing that the 14.1 update has screwed a load of webcam stuff used by remote workers.
I think I'm gonna keep my MBP on Ventura for now. My Mac mini server is on Sonoma, but all that's doing is hosting Linux VMs.
@goatsarah Sonoma is by far the worst release in years, maybe ever, since the initial version of OS X. It keeps getting generally worse, not better, but this year was a huge leap backwards.
@goatsarah I’ve been having lots of stability issues with VMs running on a M1 mini. Not sure if it’s a UTM or an OS problem but never happened on Ventura.
@arroz I’ve got 2 UTM Linux VMs on my M2 Mini and they’re solid at the moment.
I’m just not gonna touch it. Probably hold off on further upgrades until 14.2 at least.
@goatsarah I have two Linux and one FreeBSD. Since Sonoma they randomly hang after running for a few days. After this latest update (14.1.1) I had a hard time trying to even boot them up. UTM couldn’t start the VMs at all, didn’t get to the phase where it shows fhe big UTM logo in the window just before handing the console to the guest OS.
@arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.
Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.