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So I have been using CyberPanel since March and so far I'm having a pretty smooth ride. I haven't tried everything and just using basic features so far but I did sort out almost all the problems I have encountered. It gonna take a bit of time to figure the interface since it's not exactly cPanel (I'm too used to cPanel). I always prefer using a panel to SSH for various reasons I have mentioned so many times here. I handle many websites so having a panel save me time as well as any messes I might make while using SSH. Plus it gives me a chance to let my clients have limited control over their sites.
Virtualmin used to be my favorite panel since it gives you the power to micromanage everything. But it's a complex panel which needs quite a learning curve. My biggest problem was sometimes it's quite hard to get support from developers. A problem I had with VestaCP too. So far CyberPanel provides excellent support. Plus I can do everything through the GUI interface like taking care of PHP Extensions and configurations, and security tasks such as Managing Firewall, Modsecurity, CSF in a very easy way.
Since VestaCP seems to be officially dead and next-in-line are not so user-friendly this might be the best alternative you have if you are looking for a free hosting panel to migrate. I 've created this topic as a general discussion thread for CyberPanel since I couldn't find one.
Virtualmin used to be my favorite panel since it gives you the power to micromanage everything. But it's a complex panel which needs quite a learning curve. My biggest problem was sometimes it's quite hard to get support from developers. A problem I had with VestaCP too. So far CyberPanel provides excellent support. Plus I can do everything through the GUI interface like taking care of PHP Extensions and configurations, and security tasks such as Managing Firewall, Modsecurity, CSF in a very easy way.
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I have been working on getting phpMyAdmin installed and have looked through a few threads here that @Hidden Refuge had posted along with some other spots around the web and I am getting the run around with this software! The general consensus I found was do NOT use a repository to install the package, as many people have been hitting a 403 Forbidden error and the packages tend to be out of date. I opted for the manual install, per Hidden's recommendation and I am still having issues. Here is what I have done thus far:
- I downloaded phpMyAdmin 4.9.5 from their site using wget
- Extracted the the tar ball in /var/www/html (Web Server Document Root for CentOS)
- Edited and renamed the config.sample.inc.php file to config.inc.php
- Modified the permissions of the folder and contents to be owned by root
I am still hitting a 403 error and I am not sure what what my options are or where my mistake lands. Any help would be appreciated so I can get up and running! Thanks!
- I downloaded phpMyAdmin 4.9.5 from their site using wget
- Extracted the the tar ball in /var/www/html (Web Server Document Root for CentOS)
- Edited and renamed the config.sample.inc.php file to config.inc.php
- Modified the permissions of the folder and contents to be owned by root
I am still hitting a 403 error and I am not sure what what my options are or where my mistake lands. Any help would be appreciated so I can get up and running! Thanks!
This is going to be a long story. My brother in law had challenges with his 2012 PC - a decent i7 Dell Inspiron. For the last two years every now and then the monitor would be "dark". So when he took it to a computer shop to check out, for the last two years every few months they would fix something in the computer that they thought was responsible for the dark screen of the monitor. Some of the theories were the memory was corrupting due to issues with the mother board. I was in Canada at the time.
More current, the same thing happened a couple of months ago, it got one of the fixes again. So when the monitor went dark again last week, I recommended my brother in law who had lost trust in his computer to go to another computer shop for a second opinion. Long story short, based on the previous theories of the other computer shop, recommendation was to ditch the computer. The computer shop suggested that my brother in law buy a pre-built computer (a no-brand imported from China) and the idea was that the content of his "old" computer would be ghosted on the pre-built computer. Expectation was he would get a computer that would be a clone of the "old computer", i.e. with Windows 7, and with his Windows 7 Microsoft Games, which is one of the main reasons he wanted to stick with Windows 7.
Long story short, today my brother and law asked me to help him "unbox" his new computer. And guess what. After we connected everything, the monitor had a dark screen.
So I then got my brother in law to march to the computer store with monitor, cable of monitor and computer so the computer shop could see what we see. The computer shop technician "with great authority" said that the monitor VGA unit of the monitor was faulty. We could take the monitor for fixing somewhere, but no doubt it would flare up again soon. So the recommendation was to get a new monitor. My brother in law and I then checked out a few monitors and thankfully he didn't buy one immediately as he didn't have his credit card with him. He planned to do the purchase the next day (tomorrow). I then asked him, since the monitor had been written off as defunct, whether I could take it home with me and check it out. Both of us thought that it was a faulty monitor and I wouldn't fix it, but I wanted to know exactly what was up (for fun).
So this is what I did. I checked the monitor info - Samsung Syncmaster SA300. I then checked VGA digital only and nothing came up. I kept Googling deeper and deeper until I found a discussion where someone thought to load Firmware and it had worked for him. The suggestion had a great response from others with the same monitor and exact same problem. I then connected the "defunct" monitor with its VGA Cable to an old laptop of mine that I didn't care much about - a 2011 Thinkpad. I then was able through Control Panel of Windows 7 on the laptop to see that the laptop detected the Samsung Monitor. So now I understood that this Monitor is maybe not as "defunct" as the computer shop thought it was. Next I went to the Samsung Website downloads section, keyed in the Monitor info, and downloaded the Firmware Update that was available for the Syncmaster SA300. I still can't believe how easy it went. I just clicked on the .exe firmware link after it had been downloaded to the laptop, and during the install process the laptop identified the exact monitor the firmware had to be loaded to. The monitor then shut off after the upload of the firmware and when I turned it back on, the screen was fixed. A magic fix!
This is still not the end of the story. So I let the computer shop know I'd fixed the monitor. At that time I (with my brother and law through the computer shop) still thought the old PC was "defunct". Following the "fix", I took the monitor to my brother and law so we could check the "new" PC. We were happy and relieved he didn't have to buy a new monitor and were looking forward to a spiffy new computer. Wow, the colors of that monitor are awesome. Like a SyncMaster reborn. BUT, when we started the new PC it wasn't a cloned PC. Not sure what it was. First view was a pop-up of Microsoft Teams. Which had never been used by my brother in law before and was never downloaded on his old computer before. Then after that a Skype pop-up that obviously was freshly installed and added to the startup, whereas I had helped my brother in law remove Skype from the startup before. There was also a 30-day Norton Anti-Virus trial software that didn't belong to the old PC. But worst part was when we clicked on the games shortcut, it showed a popup that it had trouble with graphics and something about hardware acceleration problems. This error message didn't want to go away and the Games Window was completely spoilt - it didn't want to come up as it is supposed to.
I then phoned the technician of the computer shop and we moved to TeamView. Initially he tried to make us believe that the link was looking for software in the old computer. I was watching all of his moves in TeamView and then realized this guy was fumbling in the dark. Then just to make things more suspenseful, the technician somehow got the Windows 7 updates going (whereas in the previous "defunct" computer they had not been automatic but "let me choose"). So when we logged out and in, 194 updates had to be loaded during log out, then configured when we logged in again, Windows 7 did not like it, the configuration was rejected by Windows 7 and had to revert to the previous version again. Another long wait. And so after all of that imagine how frustrated we were when the original pop-up looking for the graphics card was still there. The technician finally admitted the truth that the new PC graphics card was intended for use with Windows 10, not Windows 7. The computer shop should never have suggested that my brother in law get a new PC for Windows 7.
Any way, at the point where we realized that the new PC was not meant to work with Windows 7 graphics card, I gave up and just for the fluke of it (exactly like with the "defunct" monitor in the morning) decided to hook up the old "defunct" PC with the "supposed to be defunct" monitor that had been fixed with firmware. Not sure what the technician had done to it, but Windows initially had serious issues when I turned on the old PC, but it was alive and kicking and absolutely no issues with the monitor. Wow, the miracle of Windows! It offered to repair itself to the last time it was working OK, and I went along with it. And it worked. My brother in law's old "defunct" PC is alive and well. Everything works, games, printer, sound, everything. Better than ever before. So I guess tomorrow my brother in law and I will be returning this new PC and asking for return of at least the cost of the PC. My brother in law had to pay a huge sum for the tech cost of transferring the data (ghosting) that was so very badly done - but at minimum he wants his money back for the new PC.
So many lessons learned today. A frustrating but at the same time very educational day.
More current, the same thing happened a couple of months ago, it got one of the fixes again. So when the monitor went dark again last week, I recommended my brother in law who had lost trust in his computer to go to another computer shop for a second opinion. Long story short, based on the previous theories of the other computer shop, recommendation was to ditch the computer. The computer shop suggested that my brother in law buy a pre-built computer (a no-brand imported from China) and the idea was that the content of his "old" computer would be ghosted on the pre-built computer. Expectation was he would get a computer that would be a clone of the "old computer", i.e. with Windows 7, and with his Windows 7 Microsoft Games, which is one of the main reasons he wanted to stick with Windows 7.
Long story short, today my brother and law asked me to help him "unbox" his new computer. And guess what. After we connected everything, the monitor had a dark screen.

So this is what I did. I checked the monitor info - Samsung Syncmaster SA300. I then checked VGA digital only and nothing came up. I kept Googling deeper and deeper until I found a discussion where someone thought to load Firmware and it had worked for him. The suggestion had a great response from others with the same monitor and exact same problem. I then connected the "defunct" monitor with its VGA Cable to an old laptop of mine that I didn't care much about - a 2011 Thinkpad. I then was able through Control Panel of Windows 7 on the laptop to see that the laptop detected the Samsung Monitor. So now I understood that this Monitor is maybe not as "defunct" as the computer shop thought it was. Next I went to the Samsung Website downloads section, keyed in the Monitor info, and downloaded the Firmware Update that was available for the Syncmaster SA300. I still can't believe how easy it went. I just clicked on the .exe firmware link after it had been downloaded to the laptop, and during the install process the laptop identified the exact monitor the firmware had to be loaded to. The monitor then shut off after the upload of the firmware and when I turned it back on, the screen was fixed. A magic fix!
This is still not the end of the story. So I let the computer shop know I'd fixed the monitor. At that time I (with my brother and law through the computer shop) still thought the old PC was "defunct". Following the "fix", I took the monitor to my brother and law so we could check the "new" PC. We were happy and relieved he didn't have to buy a new monitor and were looking forward to a spiffy new computer. Wow, the colors of that monitor are awesome. Like a SyncMaster reborn. BUT, when we started the new PC it wasn't a cloned PC. Not sure what it was. First view was a pop-up of Microsoft Teams. Which had never been used by my brother in law before and was never downloaded on his old computer before. Then after that a Skype pop-up that obviously was freshly installed and added to the startup, whereas I had helped my brother in law remove Skype from the startup before. There was also a 30-day Norton Anti-Virus trial software that didn't belong to the old PC. But worst part was when we clicked on the games shortcut, it showed a popup that it had trouble with graphics and something about hardware acceleration problems. This error message didn't want to go away and the Games Window was completely spoilt - it didn't want to come up as it is supposed to.
I then phoned the technician of the computer shop and we moved to TeamView. Initially he tried to make us believe that the link was looking for software in the old computer. I was watching all of his moves in TeamView and then realized this guy was fumbling in the dark. Then just to make things more suspenseful, the technician somehow got the Windows 7 updates going (whereas in the previous "defunct" computer they had not been automatic but "let me choose"). So when we logged out and in, 194 updates had to be loaded during log out, then configured when we logged in again, Windows 7 did not like it, the configuration was rejected by Windows 7 and had to revert to the previous version again. Another long wait. And so after all of that imagine how frustrated we were when the original pop-up looking for the graphics card was still there. The technician finally admitted the truth that the new PC graphics card was intended for use with Windows 10, not Windows 7. The computer shop should never have suggested that my brother in law get a new PC for Windows 7.
Any way, at the point where we realized that the new PC was not meant to work with Windows 7 graphics card, I gave up and just for the fluke of it (exactly like with the "defunct" monitor in the morning) decided to hook up the old "defunct" PC with the "supposed to be defunct" monitor that had been fixed with firmware. Not sure what the technician had done to it, but Windows initially had serious issues when I turned on the old PC, but it was alive and kicking and absolutely no issues with the monitor. Wow, the miracle of Windows! It offered to repair itself to the last time it was working OK, and I went along with it. And it worked. My brother in law's old "defunct" PC is alive and well. Everything works, games, printer, sound, everything. Better than ever before. So I guess tomorrow my brother in law and I will be returning this new PC and asking for return of at least the cost of the PC. My brother in law had to pay a huge sum for the tech cost of transferring the data (ghosting) that was so very badly done - but at minimum he wants his money back for the new PC.
So many lessons learned today. A frustrating but at the same time very educational day.
TBCMS
Version 1.0 - WIP
About TBCMS
TBCMS is a working title for a content management system I am creating using PHP, HTML and Javascript. This project started April 2020, when I began looking for alternatives to Wordpress and simply was not finding a system that both looked visually appealing, but also offered an intuitive yet powerful content manager when it boiled down to page and post creation. Currently, the project is in a conceptualization stage, as I am fleshing out how the interfaces will look prior getting into the code. This CMS will be open source and free to use and will have a comprehensive knowledgeable for developers and designers a like to create theme and plugins for the platform.
Planned Features
TBCMS will feature a wealth of tools for content managers, developers and designers alike to use while creating top tier websites, themes and plugins. Features will include, but not limited to:
- Support for Forums & eCommerce
- Updater core with auto-update options
- Permalink manger compatible with NGINX and Apache
- SEO & AdSense Managers
I would love to hear your feedback on the interface designs and even what features you would like to see included in the development. This platform is being designed with ease of use at mind and you might have an idea or feature that I've not even thought of that would make the platform that much better. Thanks for all the support and feedback! Tyler
WIP Screenshots
![[Image: de6d0r1-367b9ac4-519c-4f33-8831-2f3ac520...knyNL2JfCg]](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/33d16d3d-9861-4b8a-8836-6049dfdb1a6f/de6d0r1-367b9ac4-519c-4f33-8831-2f3ac5200872.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3sicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMzNkMTZkM2QtOTg2MS00YjhhLTg4MzYtNjA0OWRmZGIxYTZmXC9kZTZkMHIxLTM2N2I5YWM0LTUxOWMtNGYzMy04ODMxLTJmM2FjNTIwMDg3Mi5wbmcifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6ZmlsZS5kb3dubG9hZCJdfQ.eUaODnjYjP_whEGTItk8aKuBTIARVjI52knyNL2JfCg)
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Feather - Icons used in interfaces
I'm sure many will recall a year before Windows 10 was no longer freely available, except through special application, that Microsoft was trying to "force" Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10 through automatic updates. There were a number of Windows 7 users who were caught in this. I was nearly caught, but since I'm by nature suspicious, thankfully got out of it in time. I then immediately changed my updates from "automatic" to "let me choose". And even then I caught Microsoft being sneaky, by recreating different updates with the same objective to force users to upgrade catching unsuspecting users who thought this update had been disabled. I found that I had to research the updates that were manually loaded as of course Microsoft deliberately make the headings of the updates as vague as possible to hide its sins - some are genuine updates of course and very necessary to install - but when I took charge of the updates to figure out if I really needed them, I noticed there were quite a number of updates that were not applicable to Windows 7 nor of any use to me. For example one of the updates forced installation of MS Defender - that is not for Windows 7.
Any way, long story short, my brother in law - who isn't particularly fond of computers and who is on Windows 8.1 has automatic updates enabled. His desktop computer bit the dust, so he then had to move from Windows 7 with no updates, to Windows 8.1 with automatic updates on a spare laptop. A few days back he had an update that forced an installation of MS Edge Browser on his laptop without giving him a choice in the matter. It happened during a LONG and frustrating wait, while a number of updates were being installed. So there was this wait and not knowing what was happening that was stressful in its own right (like what's up with this laptop am I doing something wrong?) and then this new browser that appeared from nowhere directly after the updates had been completed and asking all kinds of questions - such as making it the primary browser. Sneaky? And stressful!
I then went to Google and was happy to learn that there are many many anti-automatic-update frustrated users who have written tutorials of work arounds. Even a tutorial by Microsoft who must have wisened up to how frustrating it is to have updates happening while you are in a hurry to work on a project. It is completely counter-productive. What is particularly thrilling, and I'm not sure how true this is, but Microsoft allows newer versions of Windows 10 Home to postpone updates to a later date (I thought one could only do this with Windows 10 Professional?). Looks like for 35 days. But it won't allow you to increase this number of days, one has to install the updates first, before one can pause the updates again.
There are other lesser secure tutorials that has to do with modifications of the Windows registry to disable the updates. But hopefully Microsoft is getting the message so that by the time I get to Windows 10 or 11, there will be a "let me choose" choice again. Or is this wishful thinking?
Any way, long story short, my brother in law - who isn't particularly fond of computers and who is on Windows 8.1 has automatic updates enabled. His desktop computer bit the dust, so he then had to move from Windows 7 with no updates, to Windows 8.1 with automatic updates on a spare laptop. A few days back he had an update that forced an installation of MS Edge Browser on his laptop without giving him a choice in the matter. It happened during a LONG and frustrating wait, while a number of updates were being installed. So there was this wait and not knowing what was happening that was stressful in its own right (like what's up with this laptop am I doing something wrong?) and then this new browser that appeared from nowhere directly after the updates had been completed and asking all kinds of questions - such as making it the primary browser. Sneaky? And stressful!
I then went to Google and was happy to learn that there are many many anti-automatic-update frustrated users who have written tutorials of work arounds. Even a tutorial by Microsoft who must have wisened up to how frustrating it is to have updates happening while you are in a hurry to work on a project. It is completely counter-productive. What is particularly thrilling, and I'm not sure how true this is, but Microsoft allows newer versions of Windows 10 Home to postpone updates to a later date (I thought one could only do this with Windows 10 Professional?). Looks like for 35 days. But it won't allow you to increase this number of days, one has to install the updates first, before one can pause the updates again.
There are other lesser secure tutorials that has to do with modifications of the Windows registry to disable the updates. But hopefully Microsoft is getting the message so that by the time I get to Windows 10 or 11, there will be a "let me choose" choice again. Or is this wishful thinking?

There are times when we want to replicate our own online VPS locally whatever the reason behind that decision; this HowTo tutorial is just about this process done for a QEMU/KVM guest system.
Some Context:
During last June I decided to terminate my VPS-9 hosting of a GIS project that I've deployed there over a period of 2 months. The general experience was fair but I've never let it run on autopilot mainly because of CPU issues (stealness issues and CPU spikes (under certain circumstances) with time spans edging the sponsor's AUP.
Because everything was already perfectly setup and working just fine, I decided to replicate my VPS-9 locally, on my Fedora Server 32, which is running KVM.
The replication process consists in two steps:
Cloning your VPS storage device over the network
As with pretty much anything in Linux, there are many ways to clone a block device over the network. But the most simple and straightforward way is to use the old and time-tested DD tool over SSH.
Before showing the command I've used, I must first stress on the fact that while you have to keep your VPS online, it must be kept in a quasi idle state. That means all its services must be turned off, everything!.. Of course you'll still have some residual activity, but what we aim for is that the filesystem should not be altered too much while we're copying the entire block device. You must remember that transferring 100 GiB (the size of VirMach VPS-9) over the network will take hours!
Now for the command:
What this command does is first initiate the SSH login via our public key authentication then, when done, run the dd command as a sudoer. But for this to work you'll have to let your sudoer run commands without entering the password everytime [1].
Now let's see what the bellow subcommand does:
This command, if successful, will end up generating a gzipped stream of our block device that will feed the next portion of the code highlighted in the code bellow.
This portion of the code will simply get the streamed feed and store it locally as the 'phoenix.img.gz' image file.
Back to the dd command. it was set to copy our block device, which was /dev/vda, in 16 MB block size while ignoring all read errors and constantly updating us on its progress.
That's a hell of a command!.. Isn't it?
Here is the whole output in my case, from start to finish, some 30 hours latter:
Once I have my block device on my PC, I can now start setting up my VPS-9 locally; but that for the next post.
Stay tuned!...
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[1]-Generally, it's just a matter of appending this line at the end of the '/etc/sudoers' file:
Edited!..
Some Context:
During last June I decided to terminate my VPS-9 hosting of a GIS project that I've deployed there over a period of 2 months. The general experience was fair but I've never let it run on autopilot mainly because of CPU issues (stealness issues and CPU spikes (under certain circumstances) with time spans edging the sponsor's AUP.
Because everything was already perfectly setup and working just fine, I decided to replicate my VPS-9 locally, on my Fedora Server 32, which is running KVM.
The replication process consists in two steps:
- The first thing we have to do is to clone VPS-9 virtual disk (ie /dev/vda) over the network using dd.
- Once we get our block device then we can setup our KVM VPS by mimicking the same configuration used by VirMach.
Cloning your VPS storage device over the network
As with pretty much anything in Linux, there are many ways to clone a block device over the network. But the most simple and straightforward way is to use the old and time-tested DD tool over SSH.
Before showing the command I've used, I must first stress on the fact that while you have to keep your VPS online, it must be kept in a quasi idle state. That means all its services must be turned off, everything!.. Of course you'll still have some residual activity, but what we aim for is that the filesystem should not be altered too much while we're copying the entire block device. You must remember that transferring 100 GiB (the size of VirMach VPS-9) over the network will take hours!
Now for the command:
Code:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/phoenix-ecdsa-key xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -p SSH-PORT "sudo dd if=/dev/vda bs=16M conv=sparse,notrunc,noerror status=progress | gzip -1 -" | dd bs=16M of=phoenix.img.gz
What this command does is first initiate the SSH login via our public key authentication then, when done, run the dd command as a sudoer. But for this to work you'll have to let your sudoer run commands without entering the password everytime [1].
Now let's see what the bellow subcommand does:
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/vda bs=16M conv=sparse,notrunc,noerror status=progress | gzip -1 -
Code:
<....> | dd bs=16M of=phoenix.img.gz
Back to the dd command. it was set to copy our block device, which was /dev/vda, in 16 MB block size while ignoring all read errors and constantly updating us on its progress.
That's a hell of a command!.. Isn't it?
Here is the whole output in my case, from start to finish, some 30 hours latter:
Code:
[me@local media]$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/phoenix-ecdsa-key xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -p SSH-PORT "sudo dd if=/dev/vda bs=16M conv=sparse,notrunc,noerror status=progress | gzip -1 -" | dd bs=16M of=phoenix.img.gz
107374182400 bytes (107 GB, 100 GiB) copied, 118118 s, 909 kB/s
6400+0 records in
6400+0 records out
107374182400 bytes (107 GB, 100 GiB) copied, 118118 s, 909 kB/s
0+2428890 records in
0+2428890 records out
47201888523 bytes (47 GB, 44 GiB) copied, 118125 s, 400 kB/s
Once I have my block device on my PC, I can now start setting up my VPS-9 locally; but that for the next post.
Stay tuned!...
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[1]-Generally, it's just a matter of appending this line at the end of the '/etc/sudoers' file:
Code:
sudoerUserName ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Edited!..
hey, yesterday i made a huge mistake which i never did before. i entered a suspicious link to download a mod for a game. the link made an instant virus attack and made my pc stuck. pc usage is stuck at 100 percent. i have deleted everything the virus installed and got rid of it. but it effected my google chrome also. my youtube is making likes and sharing videos i never entered and i do not know if saved password on chrome has been stolen. is there anything possible to do to fix it or i need to open a new google and youtube account?
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So I have a MacBook Pro and I installed macOS 11 Public Beta a few hours after it was released (since I was sleeping when it was released), and here's my experience with it.
What I like about macOS 11
MacOS Big Sur (11) looks pretty dope tbh. Apple finally got rid of the old design from macOS Yosemite and replaced it with an iOS-like design which looks amazing (for me at least). It isn't too buggy and I don't have any plans on downgrading back to Catalina.
The things I like most about macOS Big Sur is the desktop - the more translucent menu bar and dock look amazing compared to macOS Catalina. I also love the new icons for the apps - they have a modern feel to them with the rounded square shape and the gradient background.
What I dislike (or kind of dislike)
There's this bug where there's a small rectangle on some apps the size of the URL input bar on Chrome. Please apple, fix this bug. It's been happening with apps that can have whatever that top part of the app is called hidden (especially third party apps). Even though it doesn't really distract me from using certain apps, I still want this fixed by the next beta or the stable release.
Other than that, the old icon from Catalina for the internal hard drive looks better - the new one looks like they got it off from Leopard. I can live with the back button not being added to the control centre, but it would be really nice if that was added.
Overall, macOS 11 is pretty cool, but it also has its cons that I can live with, but would like to be fixed.
What I like about macOS 11
MacOS Big Sur (11) looks pretty dope tbh. Apple finally got rid of the old design from macOS Yosemite and replaced it with an iOS-like design which looks amazing (for me at least). It isn't too buggy and I don't have any plans on downgrading back to Catalina.
The things I like most about macOS Big Sur is the desktop - the more translucent menu bar and dock look amazing compared to macOS Catalina. I also love the new icons for the apps - they have a modern feel to them with the rounded square shape and the gradient background.
What I dislike (or kind of dislike)
There's this bug where there's a small rectangle on some apps the size of the URL input bar on Chrome. Please apple, fix this bug. It's been happening with apps that can have whatever that top part of the app is called hidden (especially third party apps). Even though it doesn't really distract me from using certain apps, I still want this fixed by the next beta or the stable release.
Other than that, the old icon from Catalina for the internal hard drive looks better - the new one looks like they got it off from Leopard. I can live with the back button not being added to the control centre, but it would be really nice if that was added.
Overall, macOS 11 is pretty cool, but it also has its cons that I can live with, but would like to be fixed.

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