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Re:MacOS Sierra by mmastrac on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @07:58PM (#12544377)
I'm wary of upgrading to the first point release of new OSX releases. There's always something that seems to break my dev environment.
Re:MacOS Sierra by gtf21 on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:23PM (#12544482)
broke my homebrew and gave me weird warnings in tmux :(
Re:MacOS Sierra by novarac23 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:29AM (#12547552)
dang sorry to hear that man :/ that's exactly why I don't want to upgrade just yet.
Re:MacOS Sierra by karmicthreat on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @07:58PM (#12544372)
I guess it's time to roll the dice and see how much of homebrew and my build environments break.
Re:MacOS Sierra by gtf21 on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:23PM (#12544485)
Dice rolled, lots broken (it seems). Now to start trying to fix things...
Re:MacOS Sierra by kkirsche on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:01PM (#12544391)
Exactly what I'm doing.
Re:MacOS Sierra by eberkund on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:02PM (#12544398)
None of the features I see really interest me, it's just stuff that integrates with their other services none of which I don't use anyways.
Re:MacOS Sierra by xenophonf on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:03PM (#12544407)
I'm really confused. There already were two posts today regarding the new MacOS release:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12541081 (App Store link)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12541630 (product announcement)

Re:MacOS Sierra by aldanor on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:47PM (#12552957)
If you're using a Razer mouse, don't upgrade :) Causes kernel panics and a reboot loop (remove RazerHid kext to fix and launchctl remove all com.razer stuff, then replace Synapse with something like SteerMouse).

This was sure a weird one - everything works fine until you start moving a mouse at which point you catch a kernel panic.

Re:MacOS Sierra by a-no-n on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @10:49PM (#12545046)
List of petty annoyances:

- Can't reinstall haskell-stack from Homebrew.

- Karabiner can no longer remap keyboard keys, and seems to be no longer being maintained because development moved to another project.

- CPU is stuck at 100% doing some sort of "optimization"

- Macs Fan Control stops/starts controlling fans randomly

Re:MacOS Sierra by sctb on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:02PM (#12544397)
Re:MacOS Sierra by v4nd0ck on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:11PM (#12544447)
I've had 0 issues with Homebrew since upgrading at beta one. The only reason it broke with last years OS update to 10.11 was because of rootless.
Re:MacOS Sierra by lurkinggrue on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:26PM (#12544496)
Also note: They removed support for PPTP vpn. While good for security may screw you if that's all you can use.
Re:MacOS Sierra by kkirsche on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:02PM (#12544394)
Well, this broke Junos Pulse and Outlook 2013 sending
Re:MacOS Sierra by rosstex on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @07:58PM (#12544379)
Do I need it? Not sure.

Do I want it? Way ahead of you!

Re:MacOS Sierra by rosstex on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:04PM (#12544411)