Ventura 13.3 is a disaster for me (and maybe you too)

On my Mac Studio, all worked well on Ventura 13.2. My home directory was on a different disk in an OWC ThunderBay Flex8 enclosure.

1. After the Ventura 13.3 upgrade, I logged in and never get a desktop. I reinstalled Venture--no change. I made a new account on  another non-MacOS disk, and That did not work properly either. I was unable to log into iCloud (refused to accept UID/Pwd) and also said my keychain was wrong. Resetting the keychain did not help.

2. Finally I made a new account on the Mac boot disk (I should not have to do this!) and linked all my big directories to the old ones on external drive. Luckily I am a Linux sysadmin and know how to do this. But as a result, I had to change ownership of all my 9 non-boot disks, Find (not easy) the settings for applications (I have over 1000 and have not done them all), rework my desktop, etc. It has wasted 2 days of my time, and things are still not working (see attached movie)

3. Your phone support people are mostly (the women) useless. The one today could not connect to my desktop after trying 5 times 2 different ways. And I know the GUI way of doing things, but They do not work!! Bugs.

4. When I boot, I have to off and on my Logitech MX Anywhere 3 for Mac to get a cursor. My Logitech G913 keyboard is not connected properly either. I must put it on Bluetooth and then back on the Logitech USD dongle.

5. I cannot add some programs to start at login: ForkLift and Shottr among others. I am not sure whether there is a limit of 4 programs?? See video.

6. The mouse scroll directlon button does nothing. Impossible to get out of natural scrolling. See Video

7. I could not select EdgeDev as my default browser in System Settings. My only choices were the ones in my Parallels Windows 11. There is no way to add a browser to your list. A new version of EdgeDev appeared when I set the default using EdgeDev.

8. My Apple password is a very long pass phrase. Why isn’t there a view password button on the input screen. I had to put it in over a dozen times trying to log into iCloud on the bad accounts.

9. I still cannot use my 5k LG Monitor in 5k FB11780168. This was referred to the Engineers who were unhelpful to say the least.

The money I pay for Apple Support seems to be wasted. You should retract Venture 13.3 until it is fixed.

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