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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by bdowling »

beders wrote: post #116

It is frustrating to see how stagnant desktop OS's have become. Both macOS and Windows 11 have added incremental features that are surely nice to have, but no one dares to improve on the human-computer-interaction which has remained the same for decades now. With the advances in AI and the ridiculous compute power of modern CPUs, we should be able to have OSs that are Digital Assistants. Just one example: - file mana…

It doesn't help that outside of computer use, file means a collection of documents (e.g., a case file).

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by pier25 »

X6S1x6Okd1st wrote: post #129
Waterluvian wrote: post #121

I've been away from MacOS for about 10 years. Big Sur now. Kinda hate it. I keep accidentally invoking extra layers of UI everywhere. That's fine I guess. But what I ran into that I LOVE is making EVERY app full-screen, pretending there is no desktop or window management, and just swiping right/left among them. I wish there was a way to smooth out the UX so that this feels first-class and I stop accidentally breaking…

Funny, I hate that aspect

Same. I never use spaces or apps in fullscreen (except when watching videos).

I find it way easier to do CMD + TAB to switch between apps, than having to switch between spaces until I get to where I want to be.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by sen »

deathanatos wrote: post #132
dkdk8283 wrote: post #66

Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.

Just having functional bluetooth would be nice? Bluetooth on my MBP recently decided to turn "off", and clicking/sliding the on/off slider just does nothing. The slider doesn't move to "on", and I get no feedback, errors, information or anything about why I can't re-enable it. Prior to that BT devices would just drop the connection, AFAICT. Bi-directional file transfer has never worked properly. And that's only BT… I…

BT is broken everywhere. I daily-drive MacOS, Windows 10, and PopOS, all on pretty solid hardware. All 3 have countless issues with BT stuff, whether it's UI and issues with connecting/remembering, or dropouts, or it just failing to work on random days, or audio glitches, or not finding some generic peripherals that the other OSes do find, etc etc.

I use BT a lot, half a dozen devices I use every single day, and I have issues with every single peripheral on at least 1 (usually 2) of the 3 OSes I use.

BT itself seems like such a simple thing to get right too... not sure what I'm missing about it that makes it so technically hard to just work as expected.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by sam_goody »

I bought a 2019 iMac with a Fusion drive.

In the next major update (High Sierra), Apple switched to APFS, which has issues with Fusion drives.

It often shows as having no empty space, even with 40% empty.

Much, much worse, it stops writing to disk without giving any indication (the non written items show in finder, etc.) - for some ten hours or more - and then suddenly crashes and you find that the entire days worth of work is completely gone. Not on disk, not on external backup, not in Time Machine.

This happens EVERY DAY, at least once a day, when using heavy programs such as Photoshop.

There are many threads about the issue, and the only solution is to get a new non-Fusion drive and copy over everything. Much easier said than done.

I cannot even begin to describe how much aggravation Apple has caused, and how little faith I have in them testing their upgrades.

And of course, the whole play with searching my hard drive for something their algorithm thinks goes against my local government [which plays for keeps, thank you] - doesn't help.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jcelerier »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #169
jcelerier wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But no one uses tablets in practices. Everyone I know who bought an iPad or iPad pro use it for a bit and then it just takes dust.

It would be good to have a really solid answer about why that happens.

I had an android tablet at some point and... it was nice to read comic books on it I guess ? But whenever I wanted to do something a bit productive - I remember trying to do mindmaps, bibliography work and similar research-ey stuff it was painful and I ended redoing everything on a computer with keyboard shortcuts. On the other hand my Remarkable is seeing a great deal of work... Drawing little schemas on it is incredible.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jt_thurs_82 »

EamonnMR wrote: post #185

If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name search and full text search should be an off-by-default option, and search the whole hard drive should be a different also off by default option.

I personally prefer the global search, I think the consistent behavior is good.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by hk1337 »

EamonnMR wrote: post #185

If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name search and full text search should be an off-by-default option, and search the whole hard drive should be a different also off by default option.

Meh. It’s only slightly annoying. It global searches by default but all you have to do is click your folder name at the top of the search

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by tunesmith »

mrgalaxy wrote: post #4

How stable is Monterey for those that have been using it? Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina. I think I'll probably wait again to let 3rd-party apps catch up.

> Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina.

I intended to do the same this morning and literally witnessed the "Upgrade Now" change from Big Sur to Monterey as I was about to click it. Took me a while to find the appropriate link for Big Sur in the Mac App Store.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by RussianCow »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #95
RussianCow wrote: post #57

Am I the only one that's really excited about Universal Control? If nothing else, it's extremely impressive from an engineering perspective (if it works as seamlessly as they make it seem). To be able to take your work from your iPad to your iMac like that would be pretty incredible.

I think quite a lot of that has been available by copy/paste over Handoff, it seems like the major change here is that it's available with a shared pointing device. Still impressive!

Agreed, but that one change instantly takes it from "occasionally useful" to "hot damn that's so cool".
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