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macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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Window management (and indeed, desktop environments in general) are rather subjective I think. As someone who's been using Macs in some capacity since 1996 I'd be upset if macOS suddenly resembled a traditional Windows desktop or tiling WM thing, and the absence of Mac-like desktops on Linux (no, GNOME and elementary/Pantheon are not that) is one of the primary factors keeping me from switching.

I find window management in macOS to be fundamentally broken. I heavily organize using workspaces and I don't understand why it does the things it does. Windows are opened on workspaces that aren't active and where those windows have never been present before. Changing workspaces on one monitor and activating a window will cause a different monitor's workspace to change (because that app had a window there). Sometime…

A lot of odd desktop/workspace behavior comes down to the OS confusing screens. It’s at its worst when one has 2+ of a monitor model that incorrectly reports the same EDID across all units of that model (surprisingly common).

Some of it is also on app devs, who are responsible for implementing functions like saving/restoring window positions and sometimes misuse or overuse window/app activation.

There are also a couple of bugs I’ve observed that I wish they’d fix but those are sporadic and not at all consistent.

Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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Maybe macOS 26 was lot bigger... but I went straight from Sequoia to Golden Gate and freed up like 30 GBs. I didn't have enough disk space to download the update prior, so the extra 30 GB wasn't that... but could've been caches I guess. I assumed it was dropping Intel?

How does battery life compare to Sequoia? I heard there is a huge drop

There’s always some claiming this after any iOS/MacOS update only for it to quietly disappear until the next upgrade.

Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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No one claimed those things you’re arguing against. The claim is simply that storage has never been more expensive. A Macintosh 128K with a FLOPPY DRIVE cost $7,500 in inflation adjusted dollars. Can we please take a view of today that’s in a context of more than a few years? It would really help perspective sometimes.

this is pointless pedantry. there's an implicit "functionally equivalent, for modern (apple) devices" bit. > It would really help perspective sometimes It objectively and absolutely doesn't help this discussion at all. Even if taken as hyperbole, the frustration with Apple charging $200 for 256 added gigs, and filling up ~20gigs of it without consent or requirement, is unaffected by floppy prices in the 80s.

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Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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wait so not using GenAI makes you persona non grata in "tech" now? nobody tell my boss

It is a tool in a tool box. If a technician avoided a tool outright, I would (and do) question their biases.

what if i think the tool is mostly crap?
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