Monterey 12.5 is referred to as "weeds."
The trackpad is quite sluggish; the selection moves extremely quickly, and when I try to copy and paste text, it pulls words to the right or left of the paste that I don't need. When you are typing, the cursor may suddenly move to a different spot at random. This was not the case with the Macbook that came before this one.
A few times, Text Edit froze up, which meant that any work that had been done had to be redone after the software was restarted.
The typical "create a new document" and "save / save as" choices are no longer available in the Notes app. I started using Notes instead, however it is not possible to write many notes at the same time with that application; you have to exit the program first, and then you will be given the option to make a new note after that.
You can make a playlist, add songs to it, and they will not be added to the playlist itself; rather, they will be added to a file storage area known as Songs. 500 tunes, which are then manually selected from a larger pool of 2022 recordings, are subsequently added to the desired playlist.
The QuickTimePlayer application is now set as the default video player for all video files. I have never used it because it has always been inconvenient and had limited functionality. However, in the past it was able to set a default program depending on the kind of file; this is no longer the case. The checkboxes are still there, but they are inoperable now. By the way, the computer now considers an avi file to be something that has been downloaded from the internet and asserts that the avi file in question does not have a certificate of origin from the manufacturer. Following an inane conversation with the computer and the subsequent resetting of the warnings, the eagerly anticipated viewing can now proceed.
In the settings for both the screen and the battery, I selected the checkboxes so that they would never switch off. Even with little attention, the screen continues to doze off constantly. I double-checked everything, and although every checkbox and slider is in the correct position (that is, I have it saved in memory), the feature is still inoperable.
It is quite infuriating that the key to change languages does not remain consistent from one version of the operating system to the next. Crap! Cupertino! Still, they have been going blindly for years, switching these keys back and forth between positions one hundred to five hundred times each day, and you have already moved this key three times from its original spot.
