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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by th3iedkid »

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…

Did you know, you can set your wallpapers to be continuously updating and make macs use terabytes of your network in hours or days depending on speed? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255329956

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by ankurdhama »

starik36 wrote: post #111
pavel_lishin wrote: post #20

> 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…

I disagree with that. As an occasional user of MacOS, the new Settings app is quite bewildering. There are just as many dials as in Windows and sometimes requires a trip to ChatGPT. And for reasons I don't understand, why is the window itself not resizable?

It is resizable vertically but not horizontally as it doesn't make sense to resize the window horizontally considering the content of settings details panel (the right part of the settings window), you would end up with a lot of empty space if you were able to resize it horizontally.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by noisy_boy »

canpan wrote: post #251
rcarmo wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some hope that Framework and AMD can fix some of those issues. Would love to try out their new desktop (because it's a simpler, more tightly integrated thing) and replace my Mac mini -- then wait for Linux power management to improve.

Currently also looking at Framework+AMD. I want Mac hardware but Linux software. The other makers build quality is horrendous. Especially in the 13inch segment which is my favorite. Using a pretty old laptop because there is no replacement right now. The new Ryzen AI looks really interesting! Sadly there is no Framework shop for me to look at it and they not ship to Japan..

The biggest issue Framework have right now is shipping. I can order a ThinkPad practically anywhere. No so with Framework - they are literally leaving money on the table from what I would assume their core segment: affluent tech savvy users trying to get off the planned obsolescence cycle.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by lupinglade »

wpm wrote: post #187
herodotus wrote: post #168

Snow Leopard was released while Steve Jobs was on medical leave. It was driven (as far as I can recall) by Bertrand Serlet. Rumour has it that Steve was furious about the "no new features" marketing when he returned from his medical leave.

Is Bertrand still kickin? Can Apple poach him for a few years to clean house? I miss the days when he was running the software division at Apple.

This might be the main issue with software at Apple getting so much worse. Bertrand knew what he was doing. Apple's (and NeXT's) OS used to be an OS, not a collection of toy apps.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by lupinglade »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #85

> I could walk item by item through System Settings and point out many equally inexplicable decisions. Did anyone at Apple really believe a Mac user’s life would be better if common features were buried deep in menus? I have to agree with this, System Settings seems very inconsistent (design) and has terrible information architecture / organization.

Use it every day and still no idea where anything really is in there. What a shitshow.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Reason077 »

pickdan wrote: post #319
phony-account wrote: post #305

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> There's no path shown with hits I guess you do know the path is shown at the bottom of the window if you select the filename in the list of results?

In all fairness, you do need to hold down the command key to show the file location in Sequoia. It is an interesting default behavior to pretend the files location doesn't exist, mobile-centric.

No you don’t. In Finder search results, the path is always shown at the bottom. For regular Finder windows, you can optionally show the path with “View -> Show Path Bar”

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by djhn »

przemub wrote: post #72
AHTERIX5000 wrote: post #21

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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”.

It’s a relief to hear this is common. I thought this was user error or a consequence of frequently filling up the internal SSD thus nuking the index.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by donatj »

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…

> no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage)

FWIW you can massively improve things by just disabling the internet results. It's easily done in the System Preferences

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