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one annoying one that's notably missing: There's no way to get rid of the Music.app, and the play/pause hardware button on my M2 macbook is always mapped to that app. I inadvertently press this button all the time and it launches Music.app, taking about 1/4th of the 8gb of shared memory
I do find my Macs increasingly difficulty to use, but like many things, Apple would consider quite a few of these features 'lost' as upgrades or part of the natural evolution of platforms. For example, getting rid of kexts is probably a good thing while the Settings app is straight garbage.
But then, if you don’t choose to get hung up on it, it’s fine. Layout and location of things might be a bit different than before, sure, but it’s fine.
Why is this flagged and unvouchable?
Apple's PMs removed a feature that was very useful on my MBP: system font size adjustment. Now I must wear my glasses all the time I use the computer. This is not comfortable or fun. I could increase the display pixel size, but then everything looks like garbage when I do wear my glasses. Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies…
Apple has never focused on the users, it was always their interpretation of what the user wanted.
For the most notorious example of this:
> You're holding it wrong
Using Apple means you adjust to what Apple decides the UX should be like. And if you do, you enjoy a mostly uniform interface with good vertical integration across devices.
If you can't or don't want to, then you shouldn't use Apple products. It's as simple as that
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Settings -> Keyboard -> Turn on "Keyboard Navigation"
Why on earth would that be off by default though?
I think its been this was as long as OS X has existed, maybe even earlier versions of Mac OS were the same?
One they missed that I got burned by and am still bitter about: a few years ago (I believe macOS Big Sur) they just up and removed support for 1080i displays. No hardware change, one day 1080i works, you “upgrade”, and then 1080i is suddenly gone. No explanation, just because fuck you, user, I guess. Thank you, whoever you are on the Graphics & Displays team, for your excellent contribution to the code.
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Settings -> Keyboard -> Turn on "Keyboard Navigation"
Why on earth would that be off by default though?
For some power users, perhaps because if you don't need it, it hijacks a lot of key combinations that you could use as custom keyboard shortcuts.
Apple's PMs removed a feature that was very useful on my MBP: system font size adjustment. Now I must wear my glasses all the time I use the computer. This is not comfortable or fun. I could increase the display pixel size, but then everything looks like garbage when I do wear my glasses. Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies…
Coming from Linux with X11, I really can’t get used to fractional scaling for the same reasons you mention. Sadly, the Linux world decided to go with Wayland, which explicitly copies this brain damage from MacOS. MacOS implemented it for backwards compatibility reasons, not because it makes any technical sense. Linux + X11 started where MacOS wished it could be, but then they somehow forgot the history. Anyway, I’m h…
Linux being what it is X11 will stay around for a long time. There is no Wayland on my systems (nearly all Debian) and I have yet to find a reason for wanting to change that. We are legion, X11 will persevere.
I would add: A useable System Preferences app. It's been renamed "Settings" and some idiot tried to make it look like iOS. It's the absolute worst part of modern MacOS IMHO. As a Mac user measured in decades, it's the thing most likely to drive me back to Linux. [edit: I am curious why this topic has been flagged]
New macOS Settings app is an insult to everything Mac. Sadly, while many here on the Orange Website may miss this, the numbers would (probably) show an overwhelming number of iOS -> macOS users.
One they missed that I got burned by and am still bitter about: a few years ago (I believe macOS Big Sur) they just up and removed support for 1080i displays. No hardware change, one day 1080i works, you “upgrade”, and then 1080i is suddenly gone. No explanation, just because fuck you, user, I guess. Thank you, whoever you are on the Graphics & Displays team, for your excellent contribution to the code.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of anyone using 1080i displays recently. Do you use one, and if so why?