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This: http://superuser.com/questions/665004/how-do-you-prevent-the...
another two: * when you fullscreen a window, there's a white (sometimes black) bar where the menu bar used to be * app switcher changes monitor depending on the monitor you last used the dock (which makes no actual sense).
Which parts of the front window in this screenshot[0] are draggable? Maybe this is just me, but I don't like how the titlebar and window contents are visually merged. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/images/overview_design_her...
Yikes, I've always appreciated how I can drag the little document icon where ever I like (like a terminal.app window) to do something else to the file. Also the click and hold key to see the folder hierarchy or open the folder even in the Finder. Those features are positively ancient, they also added the little drop down arrow to the right recently. I hope windows in programs like Preview.app behave at least like how…
With the half-exception of Safari [which had the 'fold heirarchy'], the apps that have lost the standard title bar never had these features, and what has been removed is simply the restating things visible in the menu-bar and source list.
I am deeply disappointed by the "development" of OS X. It seems that Apple has long ago gutted their x86 OS group due to dwindling profits and lack of real competition. There are a handful of reasons people buy a Mac, and I would largely put them into three groups: * Students looking for a stable and/or sexy device for their university. * Artists using applications that don't exist on other platforms (or that priorit…
OS X sort of lacks in default command line tools, but that can be fixed rather easily. I also feel that as Windows 8 compared to OS X loses easily both for Design and Usability, Windows 7 came closer. There are obvious limitations to the approach of all desktop operating systems and for that matter the whole "desktop" and "application" metaphor, compared to systems like the Lisp Machine. Ideally a power user would have access to a fully programmable system, without prepackaged applications and type directed interactions.
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Sorry, but 5 hours on an ultrabook is not competitive. Current Macbook Airs are rated for 12 hours with normal use, and third-party testing has found 10 to be realistic. demallien is right. Nobody on the Linux side has done this kind of aggressive power engineering for consumer-oriented x86 hardware. Google might, for Chromebooks, but it's not clear how portable that will be to the rest of the ecosystem.
Apple states 9h for a contemporary 13" MBP. Mine (two weeks old) runs for 4h max, if I do any serious work on it. If I switch Wifi off an dim the screen, I can get 6-7h out of it. The machine is dual boot as I'm using it to develop software that targets both OS X & Linux. I run a Gentoo with all kernel- and other power saving features enabled, on a 2nd partition. The time I get out of the battery on OS X vs Gentoo is…
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Yes, linux geeks can school Apple on systems engineering when they can deliver laptops with a better battery life than Macs get. As for this latest release, what, adding a new systems programming language and a whole new graphics API isn't enough? At least my Mac recognizes and uses a second monitor when I plug it in, unlike the bloody Fedora 19 box that I use at work. And don't get me started on that second graphics…
> deliver laptops with a better battery life than Macs get Well Linux gets better battery life on my laptop than OS X. (11 hours with ubuntu gnome 14.04). > my Mac recognizes and uses a second monitor when I plug it in Not mine. And this is a common problem: http://www.imore.com/os-x-mavericks-problems-drive-me-nuts-h... Also, I had issues with sound going out and not returning until after a reboot on OS X. This drov…
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When they switched from the 2d dock to the 3d dock a lot of people said the same thing. I like how apple is slowly reversing their design decisions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the return of the spatial finder ;)
I tried using the spacial feature of Nautilus, a file manager for Linux. What's your usage of a spatial file manager? I couldn't see it being beneficial to my file browsing in any way. Just curious.
The short answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager#Advantage...
The verbose answer: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/
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My 15" rMBP running Mavericks randomly reboots on occasion, and to this day still requires me to manually disable / enable WiFi almost every time I open the lid. Meanwhile Homebrew is a poor substitute for aptitude and PPAs, multi-monitor support is relatively poor (xmonad excels here), and the Apple keyboard is missing a bunch of keys I use on a regular basis.
This. People sing to the heavens of how stable OSX is and how it just works. I've had as many if not more issues than with my Windows 7 Samsung laptop. Wifi constantly needs manually disabling/enabling, Bluetooth Audio crashes are common, I average one full system crash per month, display settings reset themselves magically and Finder is infuriating. I should be keeping a log of all the issues I have. This is on a 20…
On Mac things like Alfred (probably will drop this for the new spotlight), better touch tool, some capabilities like ability to swap USB MIDI controllers without restarting OS are cool. Honestly though, performance wise there isn't that much difference between my Mac and Win Machines and being in programs full screen most of the day I notice much difference at all. The really flexible information moving things I've grown accustomed to on Win seem a bit crippled on Mac because of lack of a filesystem.