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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 jama211 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #188
beezlebroxxxxxx wrote: post #70

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Android has frequently been ahead of Apple in terms of features for years at this point. But Apple's overall "ecosystem" is (or was) much more cohesive, so everything felt very Apple, while Android's has (for better or worse) been something of a wild west situation; and iPhone's have excellent cameras. If you go with a flagship Android phone, though, you're now getting an equally good camera (if not better in some ca…

> NA seems to really fixate on the luxury and social significer aspect of having an iPhone though I have yet to experience that. The biggest reason I have mostly stayed with iPhones over the years was because the tight integration with my MBP was useful, and iMessage is way better than SMS. RCS helps even out the playing field a bunch, but just about the time that went mainstream I hear that it's a regular source of…

Personally I’ve only experienced the opposite. Lots of people mocking me for having an iphone, never seen any anti android sentiment.

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Post by analogpixel »

heresie-dabord wrote: post #333
analogpixel wrote: post #126

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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.

> 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? "$OS is wonderful because I can run $myapp" and "$OS is terrible because I cannot run $myapp" are both very narrow (even wrong ) assessments of what $OS offers. Linux is much more than "a terminal and a Web browser" and I think the abundance of software available in Linux should…

you are correct, "$OS is wonderful because I can run $myapp" ; that's why I choose an OS, because it can run $myapp. Why would I want to run an os that doesn't run $myapp?

back in the day, I used Linux for everything, I spent hours just screwing around with Linux, and then for some reason I switched to MacOS and almost over night I went from just screwing around with settings all the time to actually doing something with the computer.

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

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Post by jama211 »

There are a lot of valid criticisms here especially regarding accessibility but after seeing the first item be complaining about “wasted space” because of rounded corners on a finder preview it made me find it very hard to take seriously, too much old man yells at cloud energy to be honest.

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

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Post by jama211 »

nout wrote: post #232

This is a good time for trying Linux. If you are coming from Mac, then a distro with GNOME interface (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu...) will feel like at home after a couple tweaks. I recommend "Dash to Dock" to get the MacOS dock experience and "Search Light" to get the spotlight search.

I just did my yearly attempt at this again, and unfortunately I ran into multiple issues - aside from issues I had during dual boot setup which is still WAY too user unfriendly, the driver recommended for my video card breaks the standard resolution on my main monitor, downgrading the version fixed it but it took me an hour of hacking with console commands to work this out, and reading forum posts where I watched people be insulted by the community just because they ran into an issue. Sleep is still half broken, the login appears on the wrong monitor and only console commands I had to modify to copy some obscure config file would fix it. And cyberpunk crashes for me randomly every 10-30 minutes and runs 30% slower. And I can’t install it on my macbook… but I don’t blame linux for that last one.

Linux isn’t ready in 2025. I wish it was, I try it every year, but it just isn’t. And it won’t be until the community recognises it has a problem, but all I see is denial.

SteamOS seems promising though and we may have a saviour there.

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

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Post by Klonoar »

talentedcoin wrote: post #117

These articles always make me laugh. Everyone complains and then everyone lines up and buys Macs again. macOS has been on the decline for literally years now. If you really want things to change put your money where your mouth is and switch!

> Everyone complains and then everyone lines up and buys Macs again.

Yeah, because the rest of the laptop industry seems to be eternally asleep at the wheel, unable to build anything remotely as efficient and premium feeling.

Most developers I know "use" macOS the same way they "use" Linux: you have a browser with a million tabs open, a terminal (or several), and a chat application or two. It's effectively the same experience whether you're using macOS or Linux, but with the former you at least don't feel like you're typing away on some plastic shell that overheats at the drop of a hat.

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

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Post by phantasmish »

bigyabai wrote: post #339
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #225

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> ask "where is the home button" when someone passes them an iPhone. This is actually hilarious because Android had all-screen phones with only virtual buttons long before iPhones did :)

Sure, but neither my Pixel nor Samsung handset defaults to gesture navigation. I consider myself pretty tech savvy but just never use Apple's multitasking provisions on iOS and iPadOS.

I’ve been using iOS since 2013 or so, and even spent five or so years off-and-on developing for the platform.

I never use the multitasking stuff. Too confusing. I regard the loss of the single physical home button as a tragedy. One of the best UI elements ever created. Not joking. So simple, imposible to confuse because there’s just one, basically nothing about it that requires training, and it acted as the perfect “oh shit, get me back to something normal!” button for the tech-unsavvy, which is one of the things they most-need in a UI. So good.

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

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Post by DetectDefect »

jakeydus wrote: post #251
socalgal2 wrote: post #220

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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.

> a new Dell isn’t that bloated. At least a new Mac doesn’t try to serve you ads in the app launcher.

Every macOS update I have installed this year is followed by a full-screen intrusive advertisement for Apple "Intelligence" which has to be dismissed before I am granted access to my own computer and files.

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

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Post by andrekandre »

concinds wrote: post #317
torben-friis wrote: post #309

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Such laissez-faire attitude should lead to teams that feel something’s great but it doesn’t connect. Like a product that’s an amazing feat of engineering but feels convoluted to the end user. The thing is, when glass was presented the very first to cry in disbelief were designers. It is very much at odds with many industry standards. So I really have nothing on how this came to pass. At this point, the tinfoil hat vi…

Corporations are more boring than that. Reportedly, Jony Ive (who was given oversight of Apple's UIs), in turn put Dye in charge of the iOS 7 redesign. Dye and Ive then presented it internally. Here's how journalist Tripp Mickle reported it back in 2022, long before Liquid Glass came about: > Ive’s focus on visual styling vexed the software design team. Though they obsessed over colors and shapes, they prioritized ho…

  > The book then details a big talent drain from the design team.
is this the book you are referring to?

https://www.amazon.com/After-Steve-Became-Trillion-Dollar-Co...

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

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Post by DetectDefect »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #303
encom wrote: post #226

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Just keep giving Apple more money. That'll show them!

How is using an already paid for computer giving more money to Apple?

Simple market economics, really: the more people sell their Apple computer, the more supply there is, ergo its value will decrease, and the relative value of the brand with it. You are doing the inverse of this.

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Post by ricardobeat »

cglan wrote: post #36

I think for the first time I’ve been considering moving off iOS because of liquid glass. The bugs on apple products have hit a breaking point for me. Mac is still unequivocally the best laptop around imho, but it’s less clear cut for phones. My iPhone 15 pro is borderline unusable. Every day is a new issue. I’m very much over it. You used to be able to count on the basics working smoothly, but stuff like the camera a…

Especially with the state of the App Store. We used to have really nice, well designed apps to go along with the amazing hardware, now it’s even worse than Android with an endless list of SEO-optimized, copycat and IAP scam apps.
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