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I'm looking forward to OS X 10.12, La Brea.
Considering how 10.10 traps machines older than about 3 years in the digital equivalent thereof, they missed their chance.
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I have to support an elementary school full of Macs, and Yosemite has been my ongoing nightmare. (Well, that and the bad joke known as OS X Server.) I won't update during the year for obvious reasons, but I'm still trying to decide whether or not I'm going to have to fragment my environment again (after just getting it all together with 10.9, finally). The incentive from Apple is very strong to install 10.10, but it…
>The incentive from Apple is very strong to install 10.10 And what incentive is that? Unless you need to latest Xcode to develop iOS apps, I don't see a reason to use Yosemite. I, for one, am happy to have stayed on 10.9 and will stick with it until El Capitan proves to be an "upgrade".
[0]https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-...
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On a serious note: if you need automatic window tiling in OS X, you should check out Amethyst [0] (available via homebrew cask). I mention this everywhere I can because I spent a lot of time searching for and testing various window management software for OS X myself, and Amethyst is only easy, fully functional alternative I've found that works out of the box. [0]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
What about BetterTouchTool? I don't like window tiling in general, so I only use it for the gestures, but from what I've seen the tiling features seem pretty complete.
Amethyst (an automatic or dynamic tiling window manager), on the other hand, automatically arranges windows according to predefined tiled layouts (like XMonad, Awesome, etc.).
What I'm trying to explain might become more clear if you watch [0], wherein you can see that all windows on the (virtual) desktop are adjusted in size and position in response to opening or closing other windows.
Apple wants more entrenchment; to make it even harder to switch to something else. I'm already stuck on OSX because of itunes purchases and iphone sync, but that's really all it does for me at this point.
I definitely gave up features when switching to linux, And I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The less I rely on OSX, the better off I am. I've just been bitten too many times by attempts at innovation that only hinder me, and running old OSX because the newer version has problems or issues is not really a great solution either.
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I had this experience leaving the Apple walled garden about six years ago and moving on to Ubuntu (with Windows for gaming purposes in free time). I just kind of ate the costs. I suppose technically I still have access to my video content purchased on iTunes, but I'd have to boot to Windows or use a VM to get to it. My rationale was kind of along the lines of avoiding the sunk cost fallacy: just because I'd been inve…
I did a similar "switch" where I kept my macbook/retina display laptop hardware but switched to Windows 8 for the OS. It's been a good experience except for one thing: Apple delivers no drivers for the integrated video, disables it in EFI from Bootcamp, so it runs hot and has a short battery life when not in OS X. I haven't seen anyone reporting success working around this problem, and it's been going on for years fo…
will we be able to change the zoom on the font in an email without increasing the font size? Huge PITA on Mac compared to Windows.
I agree this is not very discoverable compared to the usual Zoom In / Zoom Out menu items. Mail suffers from its age in many ways.
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> This kind of behaviour makes me really really sorry to be > an Apple customer :/ Well, don't be then. I don't get this cry about walled gardens. Feel free to roam in the jungle if you don't like them.
> Well, don't be then. I don't get this cry about walled gardens. Feel free to roam in the jungle if you don't like them. I really don't get why people pull this "if you don't like it, leave" argument (in everything from politics to tech). There are lots of reasons someone might want to use a mac (I do), one is perfectly entitled to complain about aspects of Apple's approach to try to make the argument for change.
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I think this benefits DirectX 12.
This benefits game engines in general. I fail to see why it would favour only DX 12. Apple saved OpenGL from extinction when it was chosen as the iOS 3D API, as the API never had a foothold on game consoles. Apparently now they are done with it and with no plans on adopting Vulkan.