macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by prodigycorp on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:42AM (#49895278)

This is a bad faith article. The feel of a "buggy mess" is different from what the author described. Every OS is going to have bugs. On top of that, I cannot reproduce a lot of these issues. It's clear the OP is using multiple third party utilities to manage things like the menubar. Try turn them off and complaining.

I feel like the author wanted to write a post like one of those about Tahoe (menu bar, corner dragging), but the stuff they wrote about was all very "who cares"?

Golden Gate has reversed many of Tahoe's regressions and further updates will continue to do so.

  > This one just irks me. Show me one oval camera lens anywhere in the world. I'm waiting.

Well, OP, today is the day you learn about anamorphic lenses

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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by setnone on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:56AM (#49895513)

> Every OS is going to have bugs

sure, but also apple has 170K full-time employees

it is a total mess for a company that used to care

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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by kergonath on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:00PM (#49896487)

Well, it looks like they care more than 1 year ago, so there’s hope still.

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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by SquareOrbits on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:08PM (#49895716)

Yeah but the outer bit is still circular!

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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by grosswait on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:10PM (#49897846)

Seems to be the norm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format#/media/File:...

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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by vor_ on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:15PM (#49900683)

"Every OS is going to have bugs" isn't a convincing response when Apple marketed this as a stability release. Neither does "works on my machine." You can't state with that level of certainty that they're using multiple utilities to manage the menu.

Mission Control in particular is widely reported as being broken. There are funny gifs going around on social media of the UI bugs in Golden Gate (e.g., the Siri "minigame" that moves a control across the screen). Some users are complaining that Golden Gate is an even buggier release than Tahoe in their experience.

There was a time when OS X really did feel like a polished, premium experience. There's a major software quality issue at Apple that's been complained about for years and has become very obvious in the last couple of releases. One of the social issues with criticizing Apple is that some of the more devoted users feel inclined to defend macOS regardless because, frankly, they spent a lot of money on the hardware.

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