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Off topic from the review but handy since people were talking about crashing: Learned a cool trick tonight: Yosemite was taking a while to install, so I did some googling and learned you can see the installer's log by typing CMD-L during the install process.
I can't wait for the 'flat' fad to be over.
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Off topic from the review but handy since people were talking about crashing: Learned a cool trick tonight: Yosemite was taking a while to install, so I did some googling and learned you can see the installer's log by typing CMD-L during the install process.
protip: delete /usr/local/Cellars and posibbly LiveTex before upgrade OSX.
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As ericd says, a lot of those little flourishes actually aid human perception and cognition. Yes, we don't need giant flashy effects or lots of animation, but that doesn't mean that the most functional design is the most minimal. Also, it's kind've ironic that you can now have a 5k display to show off your flat, monochrome circles...
This. Shadows (fake 3D), textures, colors, and other elements may seem like a gimmick, but they are fundamentally crucial in visual cognition of the UI. What's sad is that so much UI design is driven by meaningless trends instead of more precise research data on how well UI elements work.
It's not like we're abandoning everything, it's more about discovering new ways of doing things and then mix and matching until we get to something useful and coherent.
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20 terminal windows? Is there any reason you are not using screen/tmux?
Eh, why bother when iTerm2 gives me the same splitting and tab features :)
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Yes, but it's not the same as turning the display off. The GPU is still outputting signal to the Macbook Pro screen.
what the.. why? The screen is unusable without the backlight.
What's missing here for me is some kind of performance evaluation. If I upgrade my 2011 MBA from Mavericks to Yosemite, should I expect any change in performance, for better or worse? Did the power management change in any significant way? Apple's mobile OSs have a way of obsoleting older hardware. I'm curious to know if their desktop OSs are trending that way as well, or if they're making performance gains instead.
On top of that, there are serious performance issues with the built-in Japanese IME, although I'm not completely sure how much of this is new, and I experienced a bug where WindowServer would randomly start hogging CPU, which may or may not be related to said IME.
Given all these problems, I'm surprised that the general consensus seems to be that the performance is good. But maybe I'm somehow a special case. (The Safari issue is the most egregious - is it that many OS X users don't use Safari in the first place?)
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As you say super flat might not be great, but all the designs preceding the current trend where extremely harsh on the visuals. From windows XP to 7, the windows default themes and colors where disturbingly flashy and "in your face". OSX was more bland but aqua was still kitch and unneedingly strippy. iOS6 app's ultra textured or "realistic" interfaces were the peak of that trend IMO. In the real world, not everyone…
Oh, I definitely agree, XP's playskool-esque design was way over the top, and OS X's excessive animations/reflections/etc. are obnoxious. It does seem to be getting better in that regard. I like most of Bootstrap's choices, and those seem to be diffusing out.
I can't wait for the 'flat' fad to be over.
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Eh, why bother when iTerm2 gives me the same splitting and tab features :)
I used to have the same question, but having a remote tmux session that persists forever has turned out to be awesome.
