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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by lastofthemojito »

haunter wrote: post #123

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…

I wonder if any game (or other) developers are going to have major heartburn over this.

"Woah, pricing/releasing this game this way was part of our mobile strategy, not our desktop strategy - how dare you run that game on a computer!"

I know not all iOS apps target all devices - some are iPad only, etc. Is Apple allowing developers to arbitrarily prevent their apps from running on Macs? Can an app tell it's running on a Mac rather than an iPad?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by gardaani »

jdeibele wrote: post #67

The look and feel of Big Sur is like a breath of fresh air. It definitely feels related to iPadOS with the colors and buttons that seem destined for a touchscreen but as somebody who uses multiple Apple devices it was comforting rather than annoying. There are ongoing issues with Apple locking down potential security problems and this makes some people unhappy. Carbon Copy Cloner didn't work with creating a bootable…

The look of Big Sur could be better. Rounded text fields look exactly like buttons in the light mode, which is bad. They differ slightly in the dark mode, which is great because I'll be using the dark mode.

Also, I don't like how the buttons in the toolbar don't have any borders and have an annoying delayed hover background color effect.

Otherwise, the UI is quite usable.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by johns »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #84
qz2 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was a complete deal breaker for me. Half the internet is unusable without a decent ad blocking implementation these days and a decent one is virtually impossible with the charred remains of the API they left behind. This was actually one of the (many) things that motivated me to migrate away from OSX.

You're not going to find the same AdBlockers that Chrome/FF have, but you will find AdBlockers that _work_. I agree that ads make the web unusable, but I've been content with the various blockers I've tried on Safari, and there's more every day. I use ABP, but 1Blocker and Wipr look good, and Safari's got the first 30% of privacy/adblocking taken care of with their various privacy and reader features.

Ghostery seems to work fine

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by wffurr »

boogies wrote: post #28

> Safari … the world’s fastest browser I actually kind of like WebKit as an engine that so many small independent browsers can be based on, but to me this is an interesting example of just how grounded in reality this marketing copy is.

That's great that it's fast, but do they have WebGL 2 support on by default yet? Six years and counting on the WebKit bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126404

WebGL 2 is required for MSAA-enabled offscreen framebuffers among other features that aren't available in WebGL 1 as extensions.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by thiht »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible)

As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools.

I use it for the reasons you mention but it's a really bad browser. It's the only browser that still has consistent rendering issues in 2020: sometimes parts of the pages stay blank, CSS grid support has inconsistencies with other browsers, and some basic layouts fail only on Safari.

Another one of my pet peeves with Safari is text selection. It's the worst I have ever seen: https://imgur.com/qC7amU1

It has the potential to be good, but it's just not.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by dewey »

kxcz wrote: post #8

Any updates to the firmware or drivers for bluetooth? My 2017 Mac has had many issues with bluetooth consistency. Keep on hoping they will announce performance improvements.

Do you have any USB C accessories? There are a lot of issues with interference between these two. When I unplug my USB C disk I can use bluetooth across my whole flat, with USB C plugged in I can barely leave my table without running into issues.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by alwillis »

Someone wrote: post #83
wodenokoto wrote: post #17

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Why would there be a runtime flag and not just the appropriate binary installed?

One might want to install it on an external disk that you move between machines and use as boot device. I think that’s quite a corner-case.

One might want to install it on an external disk that you move between machines and use as boot device. I think that’s quite a corner-case.

Not at all; did all the time when the PowerPC to Intel transition happened.

If you have an Intel Mac and wanted to use your universal apps on a friend’s M1 Mac mini with your operating system configured the way you like it, that's by far the easiest way to go.

I upgrade to the universal versions of Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher earlier today; if I had to do something complex and could use an M1 Mac, that's exactly what I'd do.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by saagarjha »

Y-bar wrote: post #95
jdeibele wrote: post #67

The look and feel of Big Sur is like a breath of fresh air. It definitely feels related to iPadOS with the colors and buttons that seem destined for a touchscreen but as somebody who uses multiple Apple devices it was comforting rather than annoying. There are ongoing issues with Apple locking down potential security problems and this makes some people unhappy. Carbon Copy Cloner didn't work with creating a bootable…

I can't get over the modal dialogue/alert boxes with centered text though. Doesn't look right. It works ok on smaller screens, but not large ones.

It doesn't really work well on small screens, either.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by tpush »

steve_musk wrote: post #153
amativos wrote: post #137

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A few things that kept me from using Safari full time (instead of Chrome) last time I tried it: - On my 15" Macbook Pro (mid 2014), when you speed up videos in Safari the sound is distorted and weird, while in Chrome it sounds properly sped up. I use this a lot when watching educational videos. - Youtube videos max out at 1080p. - While there are decent ad blocking extensions, they're not as good as uBlock Origin. -…

With Big Sur safari now supports 4K YouTube videos

Anybody know if Safari software or hardware decodes VP9 or AV1 YouTube videos? If software, does it lead to fans blowing?
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