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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by eviks »

> with their exceptional quality and functionality.

This was never true, for example, taking this simple criterion of readability:

> would be really helpful if I could read clearly what’s on my display

Look at the device's names at the left-most screenshot - you can't clearly read them even though there is plenty of space wasted on the margins and the "…"

I mean, sure, liquid glass made everything worse, but it doesn't mean all the other decades-old UI sins disappear in the exceptionally fuzzy rearview window

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by LucidLynx »

synapsomorphy wrote: post #207
LucidLynx wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not only for the corners. Do some searches and you will find a ton of bugs, bad performances and bad battery life for laptops, random crashes, ... The issue is not only on the lack of good design ideas, but also on the quality of what Apple provides since a few years now.

Maybe the quality is reduced, sure. But if you "do some searches" you can find all of those things for any major software release. Seems to me like people in Apple's walls are forgetting that the outside world is not some Garden of Eden. But yeah, I'd have to use it to say for sure.

> you can find all of those things for any major software release

Maybe it is because you were using Windows all the time and you can't judge outside (no judging), but the quality and the (legendary) reliability of macOS was true. Everything was well engineered, well designed, and had a purpose.

This is not the case anymore, and this is why people are so upset too. People are also upset because all those annoying things have been reported since betas and Apple did not really listened to them (except most absolute valid points).

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by seemaze »

runjake wrote: post #171
walthamstow wrote: post #114

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Spotlight is also slow and buggy now, on an M3 Pro no less. I loathe the feeling of being faster than my computer and having to wait for it to catch up, something that I haven't felt since the M1 came out.

This was my last straw that caused me to disable Spotlight: Typing something into Spotlight, having it pull up the right result and highlight it, and me hitting the Enter key, and the search results suddenly updating after and highlighting some new result and then opening that instead. It’s not just Liquid Glass. It’s bugs like these where I realized Apple software was truly rotten to the core. Whomever is running th…

The updating input locations under your cursor in particular is so f*ing frustrating.

To be fair, it's not just macOS, but many webpages which load dynamic content as well.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by bigyabai »

stefanfisk wrote: post #128
somebehemoth wrote: post #68

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I have an oled thinkpad running fedora that has never had a sleep issue. Excellent touchpad as well. Thinkpad X1 Carbon.

For me the touchpad experience is not just about the hardware. I got a Magic Trackpad for my Linux desktop hoping that it would at least be somewhat comparable to my MacBook. But scrolling and gestures are nowhere near as consistent and fluid as in macOS since the software support just isn't there. As a fairly typical example, getting Firefox on Linux to actually scroll smoothly takes googling and fiddling with setti…

My Magic Trackpad feels more consistent on Linux, Force Touch notwithstanding.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by dham »

mort96 wrote: post #75
jjice wrote: post #43

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter. Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and…

I think parts of Liquid Glass on macOS looks pretty bad. But I don't care that much about how things look, so it doesn't offend me. What does offend me are all the bugs, as you say. It's still utterly broken all these months after the public release. Spotlight is a mess; I've seen it take DAYS before it has made an app in '/Applications' findable through search (even as the app shows up in Spotlight's long scrollable…

> But I don't care that much about how things look, so it doesn't offend me.

So I'm guessing you use some default Mac editor (Xcode?)? You don't change your color scheme, you don't change your font, etc?

Aside: Software devs are very weird, they spend all this time crafting their dev setup and but when it comes to their OS they just give up and whatever Tim Cook feeds them their in. Makes no sense. Anyway, off to Linux land. See ya'll!

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by trinix912 »

bigyabai wrote: post #209
analogpixel wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a lot of people on HN don't realize that some people require software outside of a terminal and a web browser. Can I run Ableton on linux? can I run all the audio plugins that only ship windows/mac versions? is there a decent graphics editor? (gimp is not it.) If all I did was play in the terminal and a web browser, I'd have switched to Linux by now.

> Can I run Ableton on linux Yes? The .msi installer for Live has worked in Wine for more than a decade.

Until you need a specific plugin that doesn’t, or some hardware equipment with custom drivers (very common in the AV world).

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by socalgal2 »

sheepscreek wrote: post #135
jjice wrote: post #43

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter. Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and…

Indeed - the system as a whole is starting to feel bloated. Today’s macOS design is akin to the cosmetic mufflers/exhaust pipes in cars, which serve only to justify the “Sport” badge. I long for the days past.

It's felt bloated for a while. Everytime I setup a new Mac I have to remove all of the icons from the doc. A new Dell isn't that bloated.
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