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Re: macOS Tahoe

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I’ve been using Omarchy (Arch+Hyprland) as my daily driver for over a month. It is faster, prettier and more efficient than macOS in my opinion. I have a Framework 16” on order. I can’t wait to get it.

Is there an equivalent to macOS' Ctrl-scroll to zoom the screen yet?

It's little accessibility features like that keep me coming back to macOS everytime I switch to Linux.

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I'm afraid for the battery life of my MacBook Pro 2019 (Intel). I'll think I'll never update and just keep using Sequoia until I switch to Linux.

You're in luck. Your device isn't supported.

It's supported.

But it's going to be the last major OS update for my device, so I won't upgrade. I don't want to be stuck with a half-assed version.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#553

Looks horrible on non-hdpi monitors

Eh, it has always looked horrible. Non fractional scaling is just too much to ask at this point...but hey look at this tiny toggle element doing this cool liquidy effect wohoo

Only since OS X Yosemite. Then they decided to mess with the font smoothing and it went downhill from there. And no, it wasn't because of Retina, as OS X Mavericks had Retina support and still worked fine on low DPI screens.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#554

The reason Liquid Glass on macOS specifically is getting so much blowback is that it isn't just updating the translucency effect with the new glass refraction effect - they've also increased the border radius of most windows, increased paddings in toolbars, sidebars, etc. and overall made the UI much less information-dense, which is wild for a desktop OS. If they had just changed the translucency effect, I think this…

Is it me or did they also fiddle with the font rendering?

On the few screencaps I saw from external ~100 DPI non-retina displays, everything looks a lot blurrier.

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https://imgur.com/a/jLPM9oV this is what I'm seeing with Safari, WhatsApp and Chrome all maximized but with various radius on each corner.

If this were April 1st, it might make sense. But this is a major OS release by a brand that's famous for its design aesthetic. What the actual fuck Apple? Does nobody test anything anymore? How did this get out of the lab? Who exactly is steering this ship? Tim Cook's days at the helm might be winding down.

> Does nobody test anything anymore?

Honestly feels like QA and release qualification are non-existent in so many organisations these days. This can't possibly be the case though, right? Right?

Re: macOS Tahoe

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I feel like every macOS update has been worse than the last, since like 2015-2018 or so. Still, their only real competition is Windows 11, which isn’t well received either.

> I feel like every macOS update has been worse than the last, since like 2015-2018 or so. Tha's been going on for as long as the Mac has been a thing.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you implying that Mac OS 9 was a better OS than 10.4?

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Everything I've seen of it looks a disaster. I'll wait for macOS 27.

Waiting an extra year to jump on new macOS releases has been the norm for sane people for quite some time now. It sucks if you buy a new mac which isn't supported by older macOS releases though, so maybe don't do that for a year or so. I guess you sometimes just have to put your new Apple device in storage for a year until there's functional software.

I usually wait 6 months, but this time I plan to skip the release altogether

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It's sad that the best Linux laptop right now arguably is a M4 Mac virtualizing Linux.

Why not run it natively with Asahi Linux?

IIRC, there bunch of random things that still don't work -- no USB-C output, webcam, audio and if I've to guess suspend/resume is probably not rock solid either. The only benefit is that you get to use Linux, but then you may lose on actually getting work done without worrying about these issues. The new UI is inferior, but can still get things done.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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they need to bring Scott Forstall or someone Bertrand Serlet-esque back, and a designer who isn't Alan Dye

Rich Corinthian Leather? Green baize backgrounds? Really..?
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