macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements throughout the system. 18 years later, Apple is taking a similar approach with macOS 27. Golden Gate aims to fix the missteps of last year's Tahoe, promising an expansive set of improvements and "a more responsive and delightful experience". Does it hold up? Here are just some of the bugs I’ve encountered in my daily use over the past couple of weeks. Alignment is hard Let's start with some good old alignment bugs. Centring things is the hardest problem in computer science, after all. Take the QuickTime record button. Hey, at least it's vertically centred. And here are the window tiling icons. These were centred at some point, I'm sure. Text is affected, too, but I'm not sure this is even attempting to…

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