Relsind wrote:
there are loads of reports on the OBS forum by apple users that, since Apple updated its OS, OBS became unusable or it runs with issues. It must be, at least in part, an Apple problem since people reported no problems on Windows laptops.
Any time there are two different opinions on a given topic, I've found a neat trick that's guaranteed to reveal the appropriate course of action.
You're claiming that this must be, at least in part, an Apple problem. OK. I accept your claim completely. Apple changed something and now OBS has problems.
So what do you do now? What are your options?
1) Roll back to Sequoia or earlier
2) Wait for Apple to fix the bug
3) Get OBS to work around the Apple bug somehow
Let's analyze each option...
1) Always a pain, but if you have good backups (or even better, all your ephemeral data in iCloud), a guaranteed fix.
2) Not gonna happen. Not in this universe at least.
3) This may be possible. Don't know anything about OBS or the problem.
Yes, yes, yes. I already know what you're thinking. But I've literally seen this too many times to count.
No. #2 is not a viable option. It will not happen. Give it up. End Of Story.
While you're waiting on that reinstallation in #1, consider your next steps. If this is software that you really depend on, you're going to have to take a more pragmatic approach. Don't upgrade the OS until everyone else who uses OBS says it's great. If you want to be a "that person" that always has the leading edge on everything, but you also have work to do, consider the purchase a new computer just for running new OS updates. This is what I do. I'm a developer so this is daily life for me. I run Sequoia because Apple won't let me submit apps with anything earlier. I ran the Tahoe beta on my test machine and now I run the released versions of Tahoe on the test machine.
You should also put some confidence in the OBS developers. If you haven't experienced this kind of problem until Tahoe, then OBS sounds like rock-solid software. That's truly impressive. But Apple beats us all down eventually. Are the OBS devs going to pack in and go home, or are they going to put more effort into Apple development? Tahoe has been available to developers since early June. I checked the GitHub site, and there doesn't seem to be much macOS activity there. Rather than complain in the forums, start posting issues on the GitHub site. Even if you're convinced it's an Apple bug, it's still worthwhile to document the bug, and not with Apple. Remember point #2. Apple may have broken it. But now it's OBS's responsibility to fix it. You can help with that.
