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Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by ljm »

pcr910303 wrote: post #6

I hate that they’re moving to a design where buttons don’t have borders and textures, don’t provide any visual guidances on what’s a button and what’s not. But I absolutely despise them for making iOS apps installable on macOS. That’s... just terrible. This WWDC just felt like that Apple decided that macOS should get merged with iOS and converged them. The Mac doesn’t have a future...

It looks like it's more tailored for lifestyle use. No big deal for a lot of people but Windows/WSL or Linux by itself feel like they will have more developer appeal if this direction continues.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by ryanisnan »

css wrote: post #17

Scrolling this site with a mouse is comically bad, this is clearly designed to be used only with a trackpad. I cant read most of the content without very carefully scrolling unnaturally. You also have to pause for the animations to play, but if you scroll one pixel too far they don't play, so its a guessing game of whether you're in the right place or whether you missed some content.

I thought it might have been just me.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by frou_dh »

I'm wondering if this is the release where OpenGL goes from deprecated to fully removed.

Presumably Apple didn't want to write OpenGL drivers (full, not ES) for their in-house GPUs.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by kjakm »

pcr910303 wrote: post #6

I hate that they’re moving to a design where buttons don’t have borders and textures, don’t provide any visual guidances on what’s a button and what’s not. But I absolutely despise them for making iOS apps installable on macOS. That’s... just terrible. This WWDC just felt like that Apple decided that macOS should get merged with iOS and converged them. The Mac doesn’t have a future...

>> But I absolutely despise them for making iOS apps installable on macOS. That’s... just terrible.

Don't use them then? Seems like a useful feature to me for certain utility apps that don't require a proper Mac app/can't afford to develop one.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by Mobius01 »

The move away from a standard window bar/window chrome is a usability disaster in the making. I haven’t time to unpack what was shown yet but it did not leave me with a good impression.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by ksec »

The biggest question I had when I was watching, Why did they not take the chance to rename is as macOS 11?

OSX has been through two transition. The NeXT team must be very proud of their foundation they built 2x years ago.

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