Other versions of anti-virus or binary whitelisting tools cause a kernel panic on High Sierra. The APFS isn't so much a problem unless you were using Institutional FileVault2 keys which no longer work in High Sierra. Those break whenever radical changes to the OS are made. Enterprise typically installs security endpoint software. Įnterprise deployments of Mac's have for the last several years been kept behind about 6 months or perhaps more due to serious compatibility problems.
But more effort on the part of today's programmers would still result in a neater, more efficient product. Given how much we ask of computers and programs and their integration which we never even dreamed of before, and how much more the hardware itself is capable of, this may a harder task than it used to be. That has changed, and there are now all kinds of work-overs, work-arounds, and bits and pieces of left-over or redundant instructions, all of which has resulted in code which is more bloated than it needs to be.
#DOWNGRADE MAC OS SIERRA SOFTWARE#
Software used to be highly efficient and exact, and effort was made to make the slimmest, most efficient code possible. One thing has been going downhill, however, since the beginning of computers generally, including Apple's. I'm confident that that will be the case now, too. We survived all of that, the sun still came up every morning, and, in the end, we could acknowledge that it always led to progress, not just to PIA. This is reminiscent of the problems we had when Apple dropped the 68k architecture, and again when they moved from PowerPC to the Intel chips, with each of these changes requiring fundamental changes in the OS, and lots of problems with third-party apps. So in the long run we'll just have to get used to it, as will third-party program developers. While there are legitimate reasons to downgrade, and maybe even to stay with an earlier version (probably mostly because older hardware, or some older necessary programs can't handle a newer OS), High Sierra is surely around to stay, and the way forward will result in even further evolution - including APFS, which has been the biggest and most disrupting change.