Snow Leopard was the peak
And Mavericks was the peak of GUI look-and-feel, before they went with the all-flat look.
macOS Ventura is now available
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Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#122To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I shou…
Well, the new Mission Control is the same as the old Exposé, just a rebrand with a few changes. But you forgot Command-` (backtick) which cycles windows from the same (current) app.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#123To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I shou…
I still feel like this will be their unified desktop across all products, including AR/VR glasses. If you take away the background, the way that it's arranged feels very AR-y to me.
Great shout. Just sounds like typical marketing nonsense naming on iPad/Mac and also doesn’t seem to immediately bring much to the table but makes total sense if this is the case. Fits in with Shakespeare’s famous observation that “all the world’s a stage”.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#124macOS Ventura takes the Mac experience to a whole new level with groundbreaking capabilities that help users achieve more than ever. Now there's a nothing burger sentence to start us off.
Well to be fair the macOS PM's probably didn't give the marketing team anything to work with. Likely told them to just file radars/feedback if they had any questions.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#125To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I shou…
Windows and KDE in linux do the window management best. They use essentially the same model for it.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#126Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?
Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder
Hilarious this is not default. Thanks.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#127To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I shou…
Don't forget CMD+` that switches to another window of the same application.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#128Ventura and iPadOS 16 dropped (along with iOS 16.1), but not Xcode 14.1 (which is still RC). I don't recall them ever not releasing Xcode at the same time as an OS update.
And iOS 15.7 seems to be already abandoned.
iOS 15.7 got a bunch of security updates [1] last month; it’s still a supported operating system. There’s no reason to believe there won’t be future security updates if they’re necessary.
Apple released a security update for iOS 12 a couple of months ago [2], an operating system released a little over 4 years ago. I think you’re good.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#129It's macOS alright. The addition of a weather app is great. Otherwise I feel like macOS has mostly regressed since the redesign with Big Sur.
I still miss the old design and performance has steadily declined with each version.
Stage manager feels like this years version of "What if instead implementing window snapping we make up a new clunky way to disimprove multitasking.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder
Agreed. Its an embarrasment. Use Alfred; I've been using it for years (10 maybe?) -- solves this problem and is extremely useful in general
+1 for Alfred. Amazing software.