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My Mac mini M4 came with Tahoe preinstalled, and luckily I had a 32 GB USB drive, so I downgraded to macOS Sequoia 15.7.5.

I waited for the Golden Gate beta 8, and I think I’ll wait for macOS 28. Golden Gate looks better than Tahoe on my old monitor and seems slightly faster to me, though that might just be because I’m used to Sequoia.

I don’t like the inconsistent blur/glass effects. Launchpad is still missing, and there are still icons in the right‑click menu. Control Center, the Dock, and the right‑click menu all have different glass effects and transparency levels, and that transparency sometimes makes it look like things are behind fog rather than glass.

Maybe it’s just a matter of getting used to it, but I hate the gray gradient in the sidebar that’s visible in Dark Mode. And the option to add a background to the wallpaper is just the blur effect from Sequoia, which doesn’t go well with Liquid Glass.