I love how when apple could offer nothing more, their ui became nothing, and a celebration of blankness
macOS Tahoe
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Re: macOS Tahoe
#282How has Apple still not addressed many basic UI issues, such as menu bar icons disappearing behind the notch with no way to see them?
In case you don't know, at least there's a setting to help: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8
I have collected a long list of these types of settings over the years, for example disable font smoothing:
defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
Eventually that will be gone too, and none will be the wiser except the old who remember the good old days.
I'm starting to think these settings are left there by rogue engineers who fight against the oppression while staying under the radar. It's like a secret cabal that works to maintain sanity while the plebs are left to suffer at the mercy of their own ignorance.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 4. The app launcher is gone, and replaced by Spotlight, which is worse. Do you mean the Launchpad? (I've never used it; but always use Spotlight to launch apps.)
The biggest surprise to me from this whole beta period is that a significant number of people used Launchpad. I have absolutely zero idea why when Spotlight has existed for more than 20 years. Why would you ever want to click and page through a giant iPhone screen on a desktop/laptop computer?
I always forget that Launchpad even exists. I guess it doesn't now. I suppose it might be helpful if you just know "I need that app that looks like X" and don't actually recall the first two letters of the app's name.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fedora Silverblue is the closest feeling to the macOS experience I fell in love with that I’ve had on Linux in, well, ever. Very happy with it on my desktop and laptop. It’s not perfect but it is less imperfect than modern macOS has become. Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however.
> Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however. It doesn't exist at the moment. :\ I would pay 2x the price of a macbook for a linux laptop with the same hardware quality. The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane. It's so good that it's really hard to justify using anything else right now.
> The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane.
They're coming. Look for AMD Strix Halo chips. They're in the comparably comfortable efficiency range.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fedora Silverblue is the closest feeling to the macOS experience I fell in love with that I’ve had on Linux in, well, ever. Very happy with it on my desktop and laptop. It’s not perfect but it is less imperfect than modern macOS has become. Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however.
> Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however. It doesn't exist at the moment. :\ I would pay 2x the price of a macbook for a linux laptop with the same hardware quality. The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane. It's so good that it's really hard to justify using anything else right now.
It's sad that the best Linux laptop right now arguably is a M4 Mac virtualizing Linux.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 4. The app launcher is gone, and replaced by Spotlight, which is worse. Do you mean the Launchpad? (I've never used it; but always use Spotlight to launch apps.)
The biggest surprise to me from this whole beta period is that a significant number of people used Launchpad. I have absolutely zero idea why when Spotlight has existed for more than 20 years. Why would you ever want to click and page through a giant iPhone screen on a desktop/laptop computer?
If you have multiple ways to do something on a computer/phone, some relatively large percentage of people will fumble around until they figure out a way to do it - and then do it that way forever.
So if someone accidentally triggered Launchpad and realized they could see their apps, they might use that forever (not knowing you can put your Applications folder in your Dock and use it as a start menu lol).
Re: macOS Tahoe
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was on RC too, for a few days, and also uninstalled. I'm glad I did, the fresh Sequoia install feels much nicher. Even with reduce transparency on, the design was too ugly and the drab gray icon jails for non-squircle icons were downright offensive. First macOS version I'm gonna skip and I've been a day one updater since mountain lion, very sad.
lol are you an ATP listener? I don’t think the icon situation is enough to keep me off the release, but agree that the design is just kind of a mess and not my taste.
ATP was enough to convince me to tell people at work not to upgrade right away.
Last time I did this was ... the version that removed 32bit compatibility, I think?
Re: macOS Tahoe
#288How has Apple still not addressed many basic UI issues, such as menu bar icons disappearing behind the notch with no way to see them?
I take it as a sign of typical increasing corporate dysfunction. Obvious problems, some even easy and uncontroversial, don't get fixed. Why? The people who can fix them are not in control. The org must be very top-down. But Steve Jobs had a top down style, so what's the difference? Its: Using and caring about the product. It's top down direction with the people at the top not using/caring about the product. Presumabl…
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Re: macOS Tahoe
#289I'm normally on about 1 year delay on upgrading macOS for a multitude of reasons. I might not wait the full year but something else will have to force me to upgrade within the first few months. I'd heard from people who were running the betas that it's not ready and they are surprised Tahoe wasn't delayed. No way I'm upgrading any time soon to Apple's least cared for OS with a change this big (and this untested).
I don't wait a full _year_, but I definitly give it many months before upgrading. This one I might wait longer...
Re: macOS Tahoe
#290Apple no longer cares about disabled people. Transparent UI, with controls sitting on top of arbitrary and changing content can NEVER be legible/discernible. Apple knows this, but fashion was more important than function and they decided, "who cares about disabled people, anyway." Microsoft learned this lesson back in the Vista era but Apple's charging ahead with this terrible set of changes that will literally disab…
> literally disable millions of users, people who will need to visit the accessibility settings to reduce the transparency.
I'm confused. You're condemning them for not accommodating the disabled, yet admitting they provide an accommodation in the same sentence.