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Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder
wow - how is this not the default? It's always the behavior that I expect to happen, and I'm pretty much always surprised and disappointed when it does a global search instead.
how a better windows management looks like: - show all windows of an app when switching windows (cmd+tab). currently only one window from each app is shown. - transition period when switching windows via three fingers gesture is too long. make it snappier.
I can't help but wonder how Steve Jobs would have flipped out if he saw something like this on his devices. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/availability/A...
Given that Steve Jobs actively colluded with Eric Schmidt to depress worker wages, maybe he was just a bad person and should be memory-holed. We can build a better world without him. https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chill...
Installed fine on my 2018 15" MacBook Pro. Still a good machine that I use as my main machine. Took about 20 minutes I guess, didn't time it but was ready quicker than I expected. None of the changes are life changing but oh well, isn't often a desktop OS really surprises me with something new these days. Hopefully it is as stable as Monterey was for me which didn't have a single crash in the whole year. Stage Manage…
I’ve been using Rectangle for window management. Works well for my workflow since I’ll usually just pin two apps side by side, and jump them around different screens. It would be nice to have this feature natively though. https://rectangleapp.com/
I would love to see a full manual or dynamic tiling window manager for macOS that didn't require disabling SIP like yabai does and wasn't super janky.
There's a few nice quality of life features in Ventura, but MacOS really seems way down Apple's priority list nowadays. They're using all software building resources for iOS and then just slap any reusable features on their desktop OS whenever possible. Great when it works for apps that are quite similar (e.g. messages), terrible for things that simply work very differently on a desktop OS (system settings, stage man…
Windows hasn't even ported all their Win2K GUIs to whatever their current UI framework is
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Because on newer Macs, it’s rewriting the whole OS partition with a new firmware image, much like iOS and IPSW files. Windows, on the other hand, generally does incremental upgrades.
That can't be the whole story. If we assume the drive can write 500MB/s (conservative), and an OS install takes up 50GB of space (conservative), it should take less than 2 minutes to write the partition. Where does the other 58 minutes go?
My guess is that nobody really took the time to optimize it. Installation is only one-time procedure and even it if takes a hour, who cares.
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Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder
If you have a setup script add the following to set this automatically: defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf"
It looks like Ventura drops support for the 2nd generation (Late 2010 to 2017) MacBook Airs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air ). So let's figure one more year for Big Sur, then another year for (edit) Monterey, then I guess they will need to migrate to Linux.
"We've been putting the same 720p webcam in our laptops for 10 years so just go ahead and use your phone instead"
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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.