Those who exchange freedom for convenience deserve neither.
Macbooks have great hardware. Most people that buy Macbooks buy them because of the hardware.
Those who exchange freedom for hardware deserve neither.
Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
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Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
#22I saw beta screenshots of what used to be the toolbar (e.g. in Finder) and immediately disabled auto-update on my Mac. Seeing how many bugs have also been introduced (not just visual glitches) pretty much reaffirmed me in my decision.
However the downside is I can't try some new app releases like Daft Music[1] because it has become to burdensome to maintain two different designs. Especially in SwiftUI.
Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
#23Those who exchange freedom for convenience deserve neither.
Macbooks have great hardware. Most people that buy Macbooks buy them because of the hardware.
Watching people who switch from PC to Mac, they are amazed by how good the software is. Sure, they love the hardware also. But just opening the lid to instantly start your laptop is like magic. That feature alone constitutes more than 50% of the computer user experience for most people.
Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that's what someone is looking for in particular, I'd lean Linux. I've found linux desktop customization is so much more flexible than Windows. That said, I don't have much experience in that area on Linux or Windows anymore
There isn't really "it just works" in Linux. Linux is of course more flexible.
If you’re trying to customize windows, there’s really nothing that “just works” there either. I’ve found default Ubuntu installs to “just work” better than default windows 11 as well.
Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
#25It's not a great release and there are indeed a few bugs, but it's kind of okay. There's a lot of good stuff like container support! I don't know, but it seems to me like people are overreacting? Do y'all really care that much about how the desktop looks? It doesn't seem that different to me if I'm being honest. That's probably why they don't let me do frontend...
> indeed a few bugs
This is a perfect use of understatement.
Re: Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
#26I always assumed any 15 seconds unlock was decrypting the filesystem... is that not the case?
It could be. But nothing on my end changed from before the update.