I had a 2020 dell XPS 13 on which I installed Fedora. Battery life was an atrocious 4 hours at best, I tried out all the power management tools as well. Windows was much better. Not that I used it, I just kept it plugged in and running fedora. Still glad I returned the laptop eventually though.

I have the same problem with KDE, which is why is use gnome. I've tried a lot of the mainstream KDE distros like KDE neon, kubuntu and Fedora KDE and a few times I've had it break within a day of installing. Most of the time SDDM was at fault. I should switch it out but I can't be bothered, especially with gnome working flawlessly.

The developer of ghostty had this exact same issue with his terminal. Ironically apple's iCloud password autofill extension on firefox also practically halves my firefox performance. Seems like they haven't figured out autofill yet. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/b58a761aba75fa...

Thanks! I saw that. As the ghotty commit (and another commenter on this thread) suggest, one can set

defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false

I've been using this for a couple days now. FWIW

- With GNU Emacs, this seems to work just fine. Hurray!

- With Emacs-Mac port, which many people like (including myself): I haven't had any luck so far. In particular, if you (like me) like to compile your own from source, doing this on macOS 26 (with XC26 etc) will compile but the resulting binary will very quickly (in seconds to minutes) become unresponsive. If you use a precompiled binary (including Homebrew cask) compiled on an earlier macOS version, that may be fine (provided you set NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled as above).

Somehow the combination of the compiler & library (runtime & statically linked) is breaking Emacs-Mac for me. I haven't quite figured out why, and probably don't have time right now to get to the bottom of this...

Nope, it's planned for 1.3

Hoping the next update is the iOS 8 to the iOS 7 redesign and then it'll be fine.

I was on RC too, for a few days, and also uninstalled. I'm glad I did, the fresh Sequoia install feels much nicher. Even with reduce transparency on, the design was too ugly and the drab gray icon jails for non-squircle icons were downright offensive. First macOS version I'm gonna skip and I've been a day one updater since mountain lion, very sad.

lol are you an ATP listener?

I don’t think the icon situation is enough to keep me off the release, but agree that the design is just kind of a mess and not my taste.

ATP was enough to convince me to tell people at work not to upgrade right away.

Last time I did this was ... the version that removed 32bit compatibility, I think?

Haha I'm subscribed but haven't listened to that episode, I took the squircle jail term from the arstechnica tahoe review.

I actually preferred the pre-tahoe spotlight. The information density was higher and while it did not always give me the most relevant result atleast it was consistent and I could scroll down to find it. New spotlight is less dense and jumbles everything together.