Honest question. Is it possible to install an earlier version of macOS on these machines? Liquid glass looks so.. unprofessional to my eyes. And I hear it's also unstable.

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dmix 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You barely see any liquid glass on Tahoe. I keep my dock hidden and it's just the icons mostly which aren't that different than before.

	▲	myHNAccount123 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Same here. Not really understanding the complaints for macOS. I think the addition of icons in the context and menus is worse than glass.

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philistine 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a base M5 since last year. You cannot, no. It is literally impossible. Do with that what you will.

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adamtaylor_13 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's a big part of what's keeping me from upgrading. Every time I look at my wife's iPhone I'm dumbfounded by just how bad the liquid glass looks.

It's the first time I've ever been so repulsed by a design that I actively avoid it just... out of sheer preference.

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Hasz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

accessibility settings can turn off some (but not all) of the garish animations, transparencies, etc.

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icambron 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It does look terrible, but I haven't found it to be unstable, personally

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zffr 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. This page has several ways to get older macOS versions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662, but the earliest macOS version you can use on Apple Silicon is macOS 11.

If you move your home directory to a different disk partition, you can even share it between two different macOS versions!

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asimovDev 3 hours ago | parent [-]

these Macs can't go below Tahoe. People on Mac Rumours were complaining about M5 MacBooks unable to install Sequoia, so it's safe to assume Pro/Max chips will be the same.

	▲	angulardragon03 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This. You can’t downgrade below the version the device ships with (a forked build of the current version at time of mass production)