There was an HN thread today (at least 1300 comments when I looked at it some 9 hours ago) where loads of people complained about Tahoe slowing their machines, even people with M3 Pro Macbooks.

I have not pulled the trigger on my aging Intel Mac (iMac Pro) yet but judging by iOS 26 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max, I am not an optimist. Safari became half-unusable, visual elements are appearing at the top of the page while you are scrolling down (visiting ElixirForum showed me that and gave me a good confusion), pages reload randomly, sometimes flat out disappear and you have to hard-reload, and those are only the first 3 I can think of now at 4:36 AM, there were even more.

TL;DR of mine and others’ impressions: Apple sole selling point is the polished software. Well, that seems to be gone now, further confirming my strategic decision to gradually move to Linux and take full control of all my computing.

I’ve updated both my work and personal laptop to Tahoe. It looks bloody awful IMO, but I haven’t noticed any real bugs other than visual ones.

Spotlight actually working properly for the first time ever is indeed nice!

Yes. Nothing broke, as far as I’ve seen.

Homebrew works. asdf works. Currently on elixir 1.18.4-otp-27 and erlang 27.3.4.3 and both are working.

edit: on a 2021 macbook pro with a m1 pro chip