It should be noted that Snow Leopard was pretty buggy until several versions in. Our memory is a lot rosier than the reality.
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Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
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#172> I am not suggesting Apple has fallen behind Windows or Android. Changing a setting on Windows 11 can often involve a journey through three or four different interface designs, artifacts of half-implemented changes dating back to the last century. Whenever I find myself stuck outside of Appleland, I am eager to return “home,” flaws and all. Hard agree with this. I sometimes have to boot up a windows laptop to play M…
To be fair, win11 is a nightmare in terms of usability. I can only assume a committee of eldritch beings and accountants designed it. It blows my mind that when right-clicking on a file in file explorer, the 'delete' option is hidden in a sub-menu under 'more options'.
It's deliberate. It's the good-bad-good-bad release cycle Microsoft insists on. Windows 12 will be decent, then 13 will be horrible again.
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Spotlight straight up broke on both of my Macs after Sequoia. It can't even find exact matches in many directories marked for indexing and re-indexing did nothing. Just searching for apps under Applications doesn't seem to find all apps.
I’ve had so many issues with it as well! To the absurd level where I could not search for settings in the Settings app… People all over the net have had all kinds of issues and there’s never been any help other than „oh go and reindex”.
Just adding a "me too" here, Spotlight used to be incredible. Now it's basically only good if you wait 5-10 seconds... sometimes.
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Adding signing as a requirement can easily make what was once a very simple distribution mechanism into something much more complex - now you need manage signing certificates and keys to be able to build your thing. The cost is far far higher than the price.
I take it you feel the trade off for dev team inconvenience, vs end user security, is not worth it?
They're talking about internal software for internal users. It can be made insanely secure, but that surely isn't the primary concern in this case.
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> Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass sudo spctl —-master-disable
Why remember all these little tricks Apple makes you do to use your own hardware?
Yes because everything in Linux is completely intuitive and you never have to know anything obscure to use it to your liking…
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#176Huh, I was actually on this page a few years ago, but iOS and MacOS quality has been super solid for me this past year. Anyone else feel this way? Judging by the nodding comments maybe I’m just the outlier?
I've been using OSX / macOS since 2002. I've not really had many issues if any that I can remember or found noticeable (or knew they were attributable to the OS). I can't really use Windows or Linux because I've been quite accustomed to the incredibly useful accessibility tools that come with OSX / macOS which are first class, and probably worth a whole lot more than I paid for the hardware.
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I migrated to Linux about a year ago too. Not the smoothest experience ever (looking at you, ath11k with device-specific quirks) but so far I am delighted. Finally, I don't have to fight my computer to do things I expect it to do. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with macOS for work due to corporate policies.
The main problem I had with living in a Gnome desktop environment, is with the keyboard. I'm not willing to abandon my use of Emacs control+meta sequences for cursor and editing movements everywhere in the GUI. On macOS, this works because the command (super/Win on Linux/Windows) key is used for common shortcuts and the control key is free for editing shortcuts. I spent a day or so hacking around with kanata[0], whic…
I'm convinced a DE that figures this shit out out of the box will explode in popularity. Super for the OS and DE shortcuts. Ctrl for the Terminal and readline cursor movements. It can't be impossible to bake these in as defaults.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding signing as a requirement can easily make what was once a very simple distribution mechanism into something much more complex - now you need manage signing certificates and keys to be able to build your thing. The cost is far far higher than the price.
But it doesn't in practice. I develop and distribute few free apps for macOS, and building / notarising is never a problem.
You seem to be comparing a single dev sending apps to the world vs a corporate team pushing to employees (if I get parent's case right).
In most cases, just involving account management makes the corporate case 10x more of a PITA. Doing things in a corporate environment is a different game altogether.
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I understand that you're doing it on principle, but for a software development team, 99$/year is a really minuscule price to pay to be able to build / notarise / distribute software. Developers pay exorbitant amount of money for much lesser value, and the idea of putting your teammates at risk to stick it to apple is kind of sad bordering with negligence from a business POV.
The principle is what matters. The amount is not the issue. The issue is that there is a cost at all. "It's so cheap" is never an excuse for charging for something that should be free. In this case, running software you have no intent to charge for, on your computer. It's as if someone started charging $0.01/month for breathable air. "But $0.01 is trivial," would not excuse it.
The commenter I replied to employed by a business, develops software and distributes it within a team of engineers with Macs.
For your personal needs, you do not need to pay anything for building and using apps locally.
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#180This is an interesting idea, and I am actually curious what Apple is going to do going forward. A "Snow Leopard"-esque release would be nice, but I think what would be better is an LTS release. Historically, you get a new Mac and you usually only get 5-6 years before they drop your model from the latest release. This has always made some sense to me, as after 4-6 years, you do start to feel it. I bought an M1 Max tha…
I don't have any Macs or iPhones that can even run the latest software anymore. My absolute newest Mac is stuck on Ventura 13.7. On the other hand, I can get the bleeding edge version of any Linux distribution out there and run it on decades-old hardware.
Unfortunately, “decades old hardware” doesn’t give me the combination of speed, quietness, battery life and the ability to use my laptop on my lap without so much heat that it puts me at risk for never having any little Scarfaces.
Using an x86 laptop in 2025 is like using a flip phone.