<story><title>macOS Ventura is now available</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/macos-ventura-is-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>The update is cool but the update process was not.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  -Update available, wanna install?
  Sure
  -OK don&amp;#x27;t mind me I&amp;#x27;m gonna need a while
  OK
  -HA HA I LIED I&amp;quot;M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
  WTF
  5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
  The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
  I guess it&amp;#x27;s a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
  -OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
  -Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
  -Oh it&amp;#x27;s you again, do you want to share analytics with us
  -OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
  Um preferences
  -Oh hai I&amp;#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything
  Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
  -Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
  Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
  -No
  &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Funnily enough I had just started reading the &lt;i&gt;Ars Technica&lt;/i&gt; review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t like burdening users with too much technical information (as in &amp;#x27;any&amp;#x27;) but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I&amp;#x27;m surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I am ethically obliged to supplement my original summary&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  [hours later]
  -Ha ha just kidding of course there&amp;#x27;s a feature tour do you want to see it now
  Hmm OK
  -Have you ever wished I was a phone? (8 slides)
  Really? Let&amp;#x27;s have a talk about Preferences
  -They are Settings
  OK, let&amp;#x27;s have a talk about Settings
  -No&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>macOS Ventura is now available</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/macos-ventura-is-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>The update is cool but the update process was not.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  -Update available, wanna install?
  Sure
  -OK don&amp;#x27;t mind me I&amp;#x27;m gonna need a while
  OK
  -HA HA I LIED I&amp;quot;M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
  WTF
  5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
  The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
  I guess it&amp;#x27;s a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
  -OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
  -Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
  -Oh it&amp;#x27;s you again, do you want to share analytics with us
  -OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
  Um preferences
  -Oh hai I&amp;#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything
  Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
  -Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
  Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
  -No
  &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Funnily enough I had just started reading the &lt;i&gt;Ars Technica&lt;/i&gt; review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t like burdening users with too much technical information (as in &amp;#x27;any&amp;#x27;) but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I&amp;#x27;m surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>&amp;gt; Um preferences
  -Oh hai I&amp;#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything&lt;p&gt;Oh good. I find it by typing &amp;quot;settings&amp;quot; 100% of the time because I can never remember what it&amp;#x27;s called (&amp;quot;System Preferences&amp;quot;, evidently) but that works less-well than it might since that&amp;#x27;s not the name—it doesn&amp;#x27;t fully match until I&amp;#x27;ve typed the whole word.</text></comment>