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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by throwaway2037 »

rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

    > if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon
What is wrong with an AMD Ryzen 9 with 16 physical cores? If you need more and you have a virtually unlimited budget, then Ryzen Threadripper is even better. Also: Is Asahi Linux an option for you?

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Post by tonymet »

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #280
tonymet wrote: post #101

Apple needs to restore primacy to the UI. MacOS and iOS used to feel non-blocking with a UI that would always respond regardless of how long a remote or long-running background task required. Now iOS and MacOS feel sluggish and slothlike, waiting on IO, typically from a remote call. The webdevs have taken over. Yes they need to remove cruft, and also re-hire the ruthless UI Nazis who would enforce 120hz responsivenes…

Couldn't agree more. Moving a file from one folder to another has a huge delay. Dragging files for spring loaded folders doesn't work well anymore. As a user since System 7 it's so sad to see.

i respect a fellow UI autist

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by tonymet »

Macha wrote: post #41

One thing that has been slowly creeping in is a little bit of a Microsoft-like "you will use our feature", like launching apple music every time I hit headphone controls, or nagging me to turn on reactions every time I start a video call. In some ways that's more annoying than the outright bugs, as they could choose not to be that way and market themselves as not being that way.

I feel your pain. I hate pushy upsells and promos. Also the cluttered settings App "Remember to setup Apple Pay" promos. I do value user education. They need to consolidate all of the feature promo services into a revised Tips tool that allow users to engage with new features at their own pace.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by throwaway2037 »

hyperhello wrote: post #103
rcarmo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One word: Bazzite.

That’s not a word

Wiki tells me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazzite_Linux

    > Bazzite is named after the mineral, as Fedora Atomic Desktops once had a mineral naming scheme.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazzite

    > Bazzite is a beryllium scandium cyclosilicate mineral with chemical formula Be3Sc2Si6O18.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by tonymet »

Andaith wrote: post #63

They need a Snow-IOS too. - Ever since I've updated to the latest iOS 18, my watch complications(weather doodad) stop working randomly because they just lose the location services permission. Then in settings, the location services permission list acts like the weather app isn't installed. - The new Mail app now automatically classifies your email, but still gives you the "All Mail" option. But the unread count badge…

Permissions needs a complete rewrite. Layers and layers of permissions screens. To get anything done takes 4-5 forward and reverse UI stack traversals

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by toomim »

bloppe wrote: post #287
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

The newer XPS 13 comes with snapdragon x elite now (Qualcomm's answer to Apple silicon). Curious if anybody here runs Linux on one of those

It's still waiting for good linux support.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by geuis »

airstrike wrote: post #311
geuis wrote: post #267

No AI please for the love of the spaghetti monster. I'm so sick of having this shit shoveled into anything I'm trying to do these days. Disabling Siri all these years was bad enough. So far Apple has kept it as a toggle in the settings, but it's easy bloat for it to keep spreading. Does anyone need AI in a text editor? No.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I think the single best use case for LLMs today is drafting text, so a text editor sounds like home for an AI assistant.

Where I fall on this is. "What is the tool for?" I still default to nano in the terminal for basic editing. Him and eMacs are entire ecosystems when all I need is a chisel.

In the general sense, notepad and TextEdit should just be less nerdy nano's. They always have been and that's what they were meant for.

If you need something to write reports, a book, etc then you use MS Docs, Google Docs, or whatever Apple provides. Those are the tools where adding AI might be useful as a feature, like the ribbon in Office.

Let purpose made tools just be that.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by bullfightonmars »

rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

Oh wow. I am realizing I have just been living with these bugs as tiny frustrations all day long not understanding how pervasive they are!

This issue with spotlight is so bad. I use the switcher to pull up my Downloads or Documents directories and half the time it can’t even find them!

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by sroussey »

Lammy wrote: post #274
mdaniel wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It gets big for maybe 1 second and goes back to normal. That sounds like the "shake to locate" behavior and I would be totally lost(heh) without it since I have 2 4K monitors plus the onboard display, and that black cursor gets lost very easily. Shake the mouse, get big cursor, find cursor, be happy It appears that one can disable it if it bothers you enough to comment about it: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-…

Oh, neat. I had no idea it was intentional but I can see how that would be a useful feature. It felt like a bug to me because it felt disconnected from any intentional cursor movement on my part.

I believe it’s also optional, so you can turn it off.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by remark5396 »

This is not only applied to Apple's software. The entire software and hardware market including iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Windows, etc. is pressured to release new products with more and more features every year, advertising those new features to facilitate sales. The result is, what was once a simple and cool product has become heavily bloated with unneccessary features.
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