[spurgu]

The application window switching has been glitching ever since I was forced to upgrade recently[0]. Instead of switching between windows of the same app it (using the keyboard shortcut) sometimes includes windows of all apps. Rebooting helps. Sometimes it starts working again for some unexplained reason after a while. Super annoying.

To be clear I'm talking about Keyboard shortcuts -> Keyboard -> Move focus to next window.

[0] I was running Big Sur because none of the recent MacOS updates really offered anything of interest to me, since I don't use most Apple software. But Homebrew and Element stopped working so I had to upgrade. I should've just upgraded to a newer, not to the newest version (which I tend to avoid due to issues like these that might come up). Lesson learned.

[freedomben]

I know this isn't helpful, but it's genuinely very surprising to me that this is the case with a company like apple that controls tightly the entire stack in part because they want to tightly control the experience, that you would not be comfortable upgrading to the latest version immediately. Particularly given how much of a premium you pay to get into that system. On Fedora Linux, upgrading has gotten remarkably safe, especially if you take advantage of some of the options that use a/b partitions to allow rollbacks.

[acdha]

I’ve been comfortable upgrading on day one for a couple decades, and have never had a problem. The difference in most cases is the areas where Apple doesn’t control – I don’t use a lot of third-party extensions but a lot of apps, even popular ones like Dropbox, used to do pretty invasive things which were prone to breaking. People in industries like audio production where much of the software has DRM systems have decades of scar tissue from that kind of stuff, so I totally understand why they hesitate.