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09-25-2018, 10:38 AM | #16 |
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My understanding is that 32-bit apps already in the Mac App Store will continue to be available for now, but no further updates are allowed unless the app is updated to 64-bit. I assume that Amazon is working on that now. The version in the store is already behind the non store version.
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09-25-2018, 12:09 PM | #18 |
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I just successfully upgraded my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running High Sierra latest release to Mojave. Download of Mojave only took a few minutes, perhaps 3-5 minutes. Installation took about 40 minutes total.
BTW, Mojave was still not showing up in the Appstore Update tab, so I searched for Mojave, located it, and dowloaded it that way. 09:42 Started Mojave installation on MBP 09:46 MBP restarted 10:13 MBP screen briefly went completely black (for about 10 sec), 10:15 MBP screen went completely black (for about 45 sec) 10:22 installation completed and the sign-in screen for Mojave displayed (See attached screen capture.) I didn't use the beta version, so this is my first look at Mojave. I'm not all that impressed with the Dark Mode. It is a good start, but they need to add some customization. For example, the light colored text is too bright with the dark background (too much contrast) and causes the "mini blinds effect" with my eyes. I see no way to make the text a little less bright. Also, Safari will display web pages how they were specified by the designers of same, so you will still get bright white pages that don't really fit into Dark Mode very well. They need to rethink Dark Mode, add customizations for text color/shade and add the ability to darken bright pages and app interfaces. Otherwise I won't be able to use it much, if at all. The new screen capture function (Command + Shift + 5) is an improvement, but when I captured the attached About This Mac window using the Capture Selected Window option, it also captured at least 1/2 inch of screen all around it. BTW, I cropped the image before posting it. That is clunky and shows how the Apple programmers just are not that good sometimes. They need to fix that. Geez MS has been able to that correctly for over 20 years! I haven't had time to test out Mojave much yet, but so far no issues. I tried running Excel 2011 for Mac which is a 32-bit app and it seems to load and run okay, and without any warnings about it being 32-bit. So that is good. I hate Numbers as it is too clunky to use. One thing I will warn you about though, and this goes for any Mac OS X update, be sure to have your current passwords written down so you can refer to them during the installation and/or setup of the update. With Mojave I only needed to enter my Administration Password for my MBP, and all went well. With High Sierra I was asked for the Administration Password for my MBP, the Apple ID Password, and the Encryption Password, and I had no idea about the Encryption Password even existing much less what I had used. So I was locked out of my MBP until I spent 30+ minutes on the phone with Apple Support and finally got every necessary password reset. Apparently a rare glitch occurred when installing High Sierra that caused the MBP to somehow use an older password. What a mess, but it got resolved fairly easily. But again, I had no issues at all installing Mojave as it went fairly fast and flawless. Last edited by OtinG; 09-25-2018 at 12:40 PM. |
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Mojave does work with Wine and Wine-bottled Windows apps
Mojave does work with Wine and Wine-bottled Windows apps. I just tested it out on an old 32-bit app called RegiStaX 6, and it worked flawlessly and never gave me the 32-bit warning either.
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The system font in Mojave sux!
The system font in Mojave totally blows chunks! Apple screwed that up big time. The new system font is way too thin and to be honest I have to squint to tell the difference between normal text and bold text. Horrible looking mess. I wish there was a way to switch back to the system font used in High Sierra.
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First thing I would check is General panel in System Preferences. At the bottom there is a checkbox for ‘Use font smoothing when available’. If it is not checked, check it (on my system it was checked; un-checking it thinned the fonts; I am trying to decide if I like it better that way). If that does not work, see this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comme...ts_super_thin/ Last edited by tomsem; 09-25-2018 at 08:10 PM. |
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The other thing that is lacking is that third party apps won’t pay attention to the Appearance preference now (until now, it did not exist). And as you mention, web pages need to be thought about. I don’t think there is even any way for web page to discover which mode is enabled. Over time, it should get better, and learnings can be applied to iOS if and when Apple decides to add Dark mode to that. Last edited by tomsem; 09-25-2018 at 08:20 PM. |
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Just an update on my installation of Mojave, a day after the install and I'm now getting the warning message boxes about running outdated apps. I did not get those warnings on the day of the install, but today I'm getting them. Odd. At any rate Mojave does not cause any issues with these 32-bit apps as they run without any known issues.
It also rather odd that no app updates for Mojave have come into the App Stre in the day since I installed. Usually I get a slew of app updates when I upgrade Mac OS X. I did get a slew of iOS app updates immediately after installing iOS 12. |
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No problems here. Calibre works fine. I use Alf's DRM plugins and was able to import a kindle book with no problem. I don't use ADE. It's been a while since I used the stand alone deDRM program
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Visual Studio Code is free (for macOS, Windows, and Linux) and has a rich ecosystem of extensions. I ‘barely’ use BBEdit any more.
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