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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by vegardx »

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #4

Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their revenue I would short the stock.

One thing that made Tahoe even worse is that Apple changed what they considered an update or upgrade, so for Tahoe it was suddenly considered as a update and not an upgrade, in all management solutions.

This force-upgraded a lot of Macs at work and we lost days of effective work across many engineers. The machines was practically useless for weeks.

They clearly don't care about power users anymore, and haven't for quite some time. It's so sad.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by Lord-Jobo »

sylens wrote: post #3

Perhaps the thing I hate most about Tahoe is the embedded rounded rectangle around the menu inside of the larger rounded rectangle window. They're trying to go for this look of a menu floating above the rest of the window it belongs to, but it just looks sloppy to me in dark mode.

Looks sloppy in any mode. The amount of wasted space has gone from “well a little bit of rounding/padding is alright to achieve a unified unique look” to “holy shit this is just Fischer price laugh and learn garbage”.

1/2 pixel strips everywhere, around tons of elements. Huge rounded corners. Slow showy animations.

This isn’t a UI for adults, this is a UI for a fake computer sequence in a cheap Netflix movie.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by jjice »

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter.

Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and start fixing before they continue adding new stuff. 26.2 doesn't inspire me that they're on that trajectory.

The thing that amazes me most is that everyone on the teams responsible is probably using their Apple devices and running into these same bugs!

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

emchammer wrote: post #38
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm almost positive that it's because they want to make as many apps as possible VisionOS-friendly. I suspect that they were rather shaken at how poorly AVP was received.

I don’t want to wear one of those things on my face. I want a high-quality computer and phone. Apple executives are out to lunch.

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by estetlinus »

I am trying hard to have strong feelings about it, but I just can’t bother. The only thing constant is change.

What I do know for a fact, is that for each error I have on my MacBook, I’ll have ~10 ungoogable errors on any other OS. I rage-sold my last Windows due to losing my Java installation (or just confusing which terminal I installed it in).

Please, crop all thumbnails in the corners, as long as you come pre-installed with just one working terminal.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by SkyeCA »

cglan wrote: post #36

I think for the first time I’ve been considering moving off iOS because of liquid glass. The bugs on apple products have hit a breaking point for me. Mac is still unequivocally the best laptop around imho, but it’s less clear cut for phones. My iPhone 15 pro is borderline unusable. Every day is a new issue. I’m very much over it. You used to be able to count on the basics working smoothly, but stuff like the camera a…

I've recently been using an Android phone a family member gave me after they upgraded and to my shock it's...fantastic? It's not at all like I remember Android from back in the early Android days.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by coldpie »

cglan wrote: post #36

I think for the first time I’ve been considering moving off iOS because of liquid glass. The bugs on apple products have hit a breaking point for me. Mac is still unequivocally the best laptop around imho, but it’s less clear cut for phones. My iPhone 15 pro is borderline unusable. Every day is a new issue. I’m very much over it. You used to be able to count on the basics working smoothly, but stuff like the camera a…

I recently switched from a 13 Mini to a Motorola Razr and wow Android is so much nicer than iOS. Notifications don't randomly disappear on Android, I have a Back button, and I can use real Firefox!

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by baq »

coldpie wrote: post #40
stefanfisk wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My kid dumped a glass of water all over my MBP M1 a few days ago. Deciding between an inferior M4 with Sequoia or a fancy new M5 with Tahoe has been rough :/

If it helps, I've been using XFCE since 2007 and it's remained functionally identical for all of those almost 20 years. It just works, it improves a tiny bit with each major upgrade, and they don't rearrange everything every couple years for the sake of justifying a salary. Maybe it's a good opportunity to consider whether you actually have to keep running on Apple's treadmill.

I’d love an XFCE (or even gnome tbh) environment on a properly built laptop, unfortunately only Apple is able to build something that works in all areas that matter: sleeps when lid closed, wakes when lid opens, touchpad and display don’t suck.
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