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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by hungrywolfinc »

3327 wrote: post #270
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

Just want to put here the long term consequences of supporting closed ecosystem Apple: -A future of monolithic internet instead of a flourishing forrest. -Technological advances driven by singular forces - i.e ultra thin laptops. -The decimation of small but potentially impactful hardware innovation that my flourish one day. Don’t get me wrong - i write this post on a Mac, for the same reason you all use it. Much of…

Seconded.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by akmarinov »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

The biggest thing from Chrome for me is multiple users to switch between home and work contexts - I don't think there's something like that on Safari?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by _jal »

tobr wrote: post #233
reaperducer wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people use tabs the same way others use bookmarks My wife does this on her phone. I find it maddening, and tell her to just bookmark her sites. But that's just not how her brain works. Fortunately, even between iOS updates, Safari remembers all of her old tabs.

Genuinely curious, why do you find it maddening? Is it just the feeling that it’s somehow messy? Wouldn’t bookmarking every page be a lot worse?

I find others' distaste for my personal workflows amusing, until it becomes annoying.

At which point the proper response becomes, "go work through your issues in some way that does not involve me."

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by kall »

thiht wrote: post #166
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible) As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools. I use it for the…

As a daily user of the safari devtools, I have to disagree

I don‘t have much need for the Network tab, so maybe that’s why. They handle the basics very well for me, with a much better interface (IMHO) than chrome tools.

I really wish they didn‘t skip the devtools part of WebExtensions so we could get the tools for React/Vue/Redux et al.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by gen3 »

rch wrote: post #329
pkulak wrote: post #285

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Same here. I eventually upgraded to a Linux distro and couldn't be happier. What finally did it for me was when I did an "ls" in a terminal after an upgrade, accidentally hit the wrong button when the OS asked for permission, and locked my terminal out of file system access. Mac OS is no longer any good for professional use, outside of media creation.

What's the best ~15" Linux laptop to ask for as a new hire these days?

I haven't had an issue with Dell laptops.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by r00fus »

lukifer wrote: post #130

Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.

I've been fine. Of course I wait till at least 2 dot releases afterwards.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by wayneftw »

haunter wrote: post #123

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…

A huge step forward into Apple’s prison complex maybe.

I’ll wait to use ARM on a desktop computer until an OS/platform with more freedom and a much better UI commonly runs on ARM. That will be Windows.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by mortenjorck »

enriquto wrote: post #183
ksec wrote: post #159

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It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…

> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?

As a UX designer, when I see people using something in a way it wasn’t intended (and having a hundred tabs is clearly not how tabs were intended to be used), my question is: how is this UI failing them?

I think the problem is that people generally don’t know when they’ll return to a tab, so they leave it open, and that creating a bookmark is asking too much commitment for something potentially ephemeral.

A good system might be one that doesn’t automatically close tabs, as some extensions do, but collapses ones that have remained unused for a certain period into a set of temporary bookmarks. Recently accessed tabs stay in the bar, while stale ones are swept into an “old tabs” list that can be perused at the user’s convenience.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by nultxt »

haunter wrote: post #123

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…

Couldn't agree more. If it goes right and works, the amount of functionality added is unreal
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