macOS Ventura

Always Restart after a new OS update. Count on the OS being unstable otherwise. But this oddity persisted after installation and Restart of 13.4 on my M1 MBA, 16GB RAM: The Finder randomly went into seemingly permanent sit-&-spin mode. While in this lockup, Force Quitting the Finder resulted in it NOT restarting again no matter what. I Restarted. The Finder did it again! This time I just waited for the thing to see what happened. It eventually stopped. All was then well. I didn't dig into the logs to see what was screwing with it. - - Also unfortunate is that Apple still refuses to support animated WebP images. That's sheer laziness if not spite against Google. Sometimes Apple deserves a good kick...

Viewing animated Gifs with 13.3 will cause QuickLook to become unresponsive. Force quit is then your only option.

v13.2.1 update is out. On my M1 MacBook Air the update ended on a black screen with cursor and nothing else. IOW, from my experience this is another Apple Blunder. AVOID This until Apple get their act together on this one. IASSOTS.

OH AND: It turns out that Ventura fixed one part of Recovery Mode while severely damaging another. This is outright UNACCEPTABLE. Details: When you get through to Options in Recovery Mode to the "Language" window, I've experienced what I can only call Super-Slow-Motion mode with an almost unresponsive cursor. A very kind techy at Apple had to help me BYPASS that broken window via a Terminal command. WTH. With that near-lockup avoided, Recover Mode works fine. - - How The Frack does Apple let idiot bugs like this get through? ESPECIALLY in CRUCIAL Recovery Mode. - - I hope you don't run into this stupid bug. If you do: CALL APPLE!!! Bother them to fix it for YOU and for ETERNITY hereafter. Sheesh. (o_0)

Echoing gosocial2 below, and adding nightmares of my own, I have to advise NOT updating or even installing Ventura as of yet. (1) It damaged my critical sparse bundle encrypted file to the point of only being readable. Several files had been damaged to the point of unreadability. This is unheard of on my Macs. Shameful! (2) The OS is literally BOMBARDED with extension demands and errors, many of which have not-a-clue as to how to fix them. Some extension error message was outright wrong with its advice. I'm a Mac security specialist and proponent. But the way Apple has stupefied macOS security to the point of MADNESS is again, shameful. (3) I've interacted via both phone and Feedback regarding what are now old and persistent bugs and blunders in their software. Not-a-one has been repaired in this update. THREE shamefuls, you're OUT Apple! Consider me disgusted. Apple Does Not Care. Apple Is Out Of Control. The streak of Apple Blunders since 2016 continues apace. VERY SAD.

Freezes my Mac, reminds me frequently that kernel panics do still happen, and corrupts connected hard drives and SSDs, and built-in Bootcamp partitions. Plug'n'play? Try at your own risk as plugging in additional displays may and probably will freeze and crash your Mac.

The systems preferences are such an abomination that I will NOT install this onto any machines I own. My computer is not an iPhone and I find the IOS preferences labyrinthine compared to the (old ?) OSX . Looks like Monterey is my last version of OSX.

DO NOT UPGRADE TO VENTURA 13.0.0. WAIT for a repair patch! --> Apple introduced a giant security hole in the final beta, which was passed along into the release version. As such, for the moment, Ventura gets a bit fat F for FAIL. (o_O) Apple's own integrated malware protection system is literally DEAD until they fix it. So, I suggest waiting until Apple gets around to repairing the damage they did. Waiting ~~ zzzzz ~~ Still waiting ~~ zzzzz ~~ Hurry up Apple! ~~ zzzzz...