9/27/2023 0 Comments Usb overdrive windows![]() I found this blog post really resonated with me, but your comment reads to me like you feel we haven't given it a fair enough crack of the whip and our opinions are thus invalid. Its menu bar uses a different font, is a different size, Settings has been completely revamped - and I don't use iPhones for reasons: I've had 3 of them, and I prefer Android - so the last thing I want is my Mac to be more iOS like. In fact, this week, I spent half an hour trying out macOS 13 on some M1 machines in an Apple reseller, and I didn't like it at all. That means it doesn't take me long to try one and see if I like it. I mean, I've been using Macs since System 7 came out. Is this somehow not enough for you? That we have to install it and personally use it day-to-day in order to qualify our opinion enough? Because I've tried friends' machines, and tried each version in Apple shops and so on, and I don't like what I see. My own iMac runs 10.14 and what I've seen of each newer version puts me off more and more, so I too have a machine that could run at least macOS 12, but it doesn't. Which means he has used newer versions, and you cited him saying so. > What I’ve seen on other people’s Macs or borrowed Macs has been enough > He hasn't used a new version since High Sierra It's become a very frustrating OS to try to love. Now we still have total lack of output of what's happening, and things just fail silently all the time. You didn't need it because everything worked. That was the excuse for having far less verbose output of what's happening. In the early aughts when I asked macOS to do something there was no question, it would work. The thing that really gets me is just reliability. In the current state, given the existence and relative decent usability of WSL2, given the choice today rather than twenty years ago, I may have never switched. The difference between macOS and Windows though isn't as big as it was when I switched 20 years ago, and most of the gap was closed by macOS getting worse and not by Windows getting better. It's still the best UNIX desktop, end of story. This treadmill yearly release cycle of half finished OS's released not because it was a good collection of well built features ready to be released, rather released because it was time for a release, have done nothing but tarnish the OS. And for doing it for over 15 years! You deserve some kind of medal, but all I got you was this blog post.I really miss the days of a rock solid release every ~4ish~ 3ish years - when it was ready. Thank you for giving us something that hardware vendors should have been doing all along. So, thank you for all your hard work, signore Montalcini. ![]() Why aren’t we building things to last? Rather than filling up landfills with still-functional products, how about building something that looks nice and works well and continue to support it for as long as possible? What a concept. ![]() Companies shouldn’t be churning this stuff out with the expectation that people will just buy another one in a year or two or three. I still love this mouse and it works very well.Īnd that’s the thing. Not today, Mad Catz! After a few minutes wangjangling some settings, remapping the 8 or so buttons to how I like them, I was back in business, putting away my trusty Apple Trackpad for another season. I tried multiple combinations of drivers and software from their site with no success, some of which requiring painful operations to remove from my operating system. My Cyborg RAT7 wired mouse stopped working with macOS Sierra, the company Mad Catz (formerly Saitek?) having stopped updating the driver software in the hopes that it would force me into buying a newer mouse from them. Today I finally bit the bullet, shelled out my $27 and bought a copy. ![]() Every time I plugged one of these things in, I’d search for a driver and would see mention of USB Overdrive and pass over it, opting for some other imperfect solution. I put off buying this software for a couple of years, making due with sub-rate work-arounds and inadequate stop-gap drivers for a slew of random USB devices that have come and gone: The Xbox 360 controller that refused to work An array of mice and keyboards that if I were to line them all up, could probably populate a small computer accessory boutique or at least a Shopify store. This post is a note of appreciation for Alessandro Levi Montalcini‘s USB Overdrive for macOS.
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