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Also, every menu with double rounded borders needs to be cleaned up. The worst offender is the left side of the Finder, it looks absolutely horrible.
They need to fix Mac OS first. It’s one of the worst OS I have ever used - apps keep crashing, random UI/UX glitches and bad decisions overall. I’ll probably ditch Mac if this degradation continues.
Yes. The impossible to disable system services (photoanalysisd and friends) are an abomination of software design.
The number one priority must surely be fixing the keyboard, besides the horrible UX? Millions are having problems for years so it's not just me, honestly thought i was "getting old" but no incredible amount of threads and now this on YT with 1 mil views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Wild typing on a 3210 was less stressful for me.
The number one priority must surely be fixing the keyboard, besides the horrible UX? Millions are having problems for years so it's not just me, honestly thought i was "getting old" but no incredible amount of threads and now this on YT with 1 mil views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Wild typing on a 3210 was less stressful for me.
Most text selection has also completely broken overt he last couple of iOS versions.
Would like to switch to Linux but hardware/laptop options are horrible compared to MacBook M series machines.
I installed omarchy, gave it couple of days. Well, I will stay on windows with wsl and macos in the foreseeable future.
The first update after install failed.
To make my two screens work (one of them portait) I needed to learn how to modify text config. And for some reason my 23” display ran at 150% instead of 200% scaling.
Keymaps in komorebi on windows are alt+hjkl to focus windows and alt+shift+hjkl to move them. On omarchy it’s some accords with arrows. Arrows on system that touts vim and tui! I don’t have arrows on my uhk keyboard.
The font is too small. To make it at least 10 you don’t have one setting for that.
The list just goes on and on.
So, like I’ve said, I’m perfectly ok with windows and wsl for my C# stuff and my mac for everything else.
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I have used Thinkpads for over a decade and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can't imagine any scenario where a MacBook M chip would be required to be productive, it feels like a weird hill to die on.
I daily drive an M1 MacBook Air and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 11 running Arch/Hyprland. Software-wise I absolutely adore the latter, but hardware-wise it falls short of the Mac on nearly every level. Battery life is horrendous (despite extensive tuning). The speakers are complete crap (despite using Easy Effects). Fans get loud sometimes because, well, it's x86_64. It's a shame, because even though the Apple Silicon C…
OTOH with Linux you can get an OLED display and amazing speakers right now if you want!
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It is a gimmick, not anything users as a spectrum might find favorable. And the sad thing is, that Apple is the only one with such a laughing stock of UX/UI. I am totally annoyed by the animations in Apple Notes. The icons have considerable increased in size and everything screams what a mess to me: the shadow as part of "the experience", partly rounded icons which talk more space than rectangles, hidden functions or…
I walked through a tech store recently and I saw the new iPhones with the liquid gimmick. I opened the camera app on one of their pro phones and it was lagging . I was shocked, I found it mind-boggling. Brand new phone, up to date OS, marketing material BS and for it to lag just feels unprofessional. I’d understand it if it was a Pinephone or whatever but from Apple? My expectations are reaching lower and lower depth…
My mother use an old Mac Mini that is stuck on an updates from eons ago. It is slow as fuck, even though the softwares have barely changed since it was first used. She'll buy a new Mac because that's what she is used to. But I feel like a pretty bad deal considering where Apple is going.
People always rave about how long Apple computers last. I bought my first personal Mac in 2004 and I have to hard disagree. They last only if you buy the most expensive model and even then it still is going to be a miserable experience towards the end. Meanwhile, cheapo Windows PC get 10 years OS support, mostly trouble free. Reality distortion field is massive indeed.
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Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps? Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems. (Yes, there’s annoying fit/finish issues in the UI - but no issues with stability)
> Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps? Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems. There’s an in-between abomination — Catalyst based apps from/by Apple (quickly migrated from iOS to macOS). Reminders, Notes and others are downright unnavigable and unusable with a keyboard and are so, so terrible in their UX. It’s a shame that Apple hasn’t spent any effort in fixing th…
They are just milking their media/dev niches at this point and mostly caters to the common denominator with low expectation for premium prices.
If you gotta run Chrome, Microsoft Office, Google Web Apps and the likes it doesn't feel worth it. Meanwhile the indie app market is insane with expensive subscription for utilities that are basically free elsewhere.
And I lowkey hate what iOS has become. Convoluted and unpredictable. Now ugly as well.
Apple hardware is great, but the software has become complete garbage. On my Apple Watch I have regularly occurring hiccups where the whole UI freezes, especially when I go into training mode to pick an exercise. On my iPhone, after the liquid glass update, I get a noticeable slowdown and stuttering FPS when moving from the widgets screen to the first page and in other parts of UI. I'm afraid to upgrade my MacBook to…
On my iPhone, widget randomly don't refresh. Ah well, they can't be arsed to make them slightly interactive but now they just barely work.
Oh and recently, Apple Pay has decided to randomly bug out on my iPhone. It makes the POS bug out for some reason. Works with the watch. Rebooting did not fix.
I just don't comprehend how they can have so many regressions when things were just fine for a while.
my 83 year old mother was able to use (almost) all the features of iOS when she first got an iPhone, in 2012. It genuinely changed her life and meant she could participate in a world I dont think she ever expected to be comfortable in. She tried and failed to use a PC for years. Local library lessons, family time (and patience) etc, but she always needed support. the iPhone as different, it was simple to use with fam…
Special mention to "files management" with the most retarded counter-intuitive behavior one could think of. Even when you know how it will behave, it still feels like a mystery how you are going to find back your files. Especially since the "Files" app always open up to some random unexpected place.
They tried to "copy" Android more powerful features but failed because they want too much control and are insane with "security". Yet iOS lack the simplicity it once had. And iPadOS is still a joke as a real computer OS alternative.
So what's the point of it all.