macOS needs its grid back
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macOS needs its grid back
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Re: macOS needs its grid back
#2This fixes a dozens-of-times-per-day annoyance for me.
The grid is good, but even better is the instant virtual display switching.
Nowhere is the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts annoyance of modern macOS worse than having to hit Ctrl→→→→→→→ and suffer those repeated animations, over and over.
Re: macOS needs its grid back
#3Oh man, thank you! I was just complaining the other day about the missing Spaces grid… when they first took it away in Lion I looked frantically for the setting to bring it back, with no such luck.
Ironically, I think the reason they took it away was to help with fullscreen macOS apps, which are a garbage anti-feature it doesn’t seem like anybody uses. Long live the grid!
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#4I am not so hopeful about the future of macOS given that the next CEO of Apple is a hardware guy, not a software person.
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#5I am not so hopeful about the future of macOS given that the next CEO of Apple is a hardware guy, not a software person.
That’s one framing, here’s another:
The next CEO of Apple is someone that cares about quality. (As evidenced by how good the hardware is)
Re: macOS needs its grid back
#6This fixes a dozens-of-times-per-day annoyance for me. The grid is good, but even better is the instant virtual display switching. Nowhere is the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts annoyance of modern macOS worse than having to hit Ctrl→→→→→→→ and suffer those repeated animations, over and over.
yes! it's the worst!
I've been using Instant Space Switcher (which got a small callout in tfa) as a targeted fix for this, and it's lifechanging
Re: macOS needs its grid back
#7I do not like the grid. I can’t see what’s in it.
Re: macOS needs its grid back
#8I am not so hopeful about the future of macOS given that the next CEO of Apple is a hardware guy, not a software person.
That’s one framing, here’s another: The next CEO of Apple is someone that cares about quality. (As evidenced by how good the hardware is)
> The next CEO of Apple is someone that cares about quality. (As evidenced by how good the hardware is)
I think it's important "what quality" they care about. Tim Cook cared about supply chain quality, and honestly he did an amazing job, but he didn't care much about software, vision of Apple, etc.
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#9> If they approve, the settings open, then the user has to find the specific little toggle and enable it. Another security prompt then done. Why isn’t this at most 2 prompts?
Answer: Because modern-day Apple has subscribed to a particular brand of mitigation for the "noobs will always click 'Allow' especially if you ask them to first" problem. The mitigation is that Apple just dumps you on step 2 of a little 4-5 step mini sysadmin adventure where you prove, every time, that you're sophisticated enough to deserve an exception to the padded-cell walled garden mode they've sealed off 'for your safety.'
As a complete nerd, you'd think maybe I'd like that I can prove my skills like this, but it comes off as deeply disrespectful to me as the user that I can't disable this.
What's my solution to prevent grandma or a 10-year-old from clicking "Allow full filesystem access and keylogging" to an executable she downloaded from facebook-security-center-and-password-verification-cgi-bin-ab383 dot xyz? IDK, that's their problem, but they should offer a way for those of us who aren't clueless to turn whatever it is off.
Re: macOS needs its grid back
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s one framing, here’s another: The next CEO of Apple is someone that cares about quality. (As evidenced by how good the hardware is)
> The next CEO of Apple is someone that cares about quality. (As evidenced by how good the hardware is) I think it's important "what quality" they care about. Tim Cook cared about supply chain quality, and honestly he did an amazing job, but he didn't care much about software, vision of Apple, etc.
Their chips are quality and the hardware itself is still some of the best. Which is what I believe they were designed insinuating.