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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 andrekandre »

mort96 wrote: post #332
manoDev wrote: post #229

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Swift was the worst thing that happened to Mac OS, because we’re now suffering second system syndrome.

I think it's worse than that: we're now suffering being a "supported but deprioritised platform" for a cross platform GUI. AppKit was developed for the Mac from the ground up. All effort that went into it was to make the Mac as good as possible. Experience from that went into making UIKit, which was made to be as good as possible for iPhone. Focus on iPhone made the Mac suffer somewhat from a lack of resources, but A…

  > Swift UI is primarily made for iPhone. It's secondarily made for iPad. I'm willing to bet that almost all the effort that goes into it is focused on making iPhone and iPad apps better.
i think there is also another issue at play; i think with swiftui being "data based" for lack of a better term, you can easily end up with ui that matches underlying data models but doesn't match the users model/expectation... you can see this really clearly with the settings app vs the old preferences; its pretty obvious (imo) they are looping over underlying data and just spitting out endless lists and dialogs etc instead of mapping it to a presentation in a user-first way...

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

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Post by analogpixel »

bigyabai wrote: post #209
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.

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

> Problems Noted So Far

- Menu bar is not visible in windowed mode, can be accessed wth ALT+F and arrow keys

- Program needs to be fullscreen, non fullscreen window cannot be controlled/resized and mouse location data is innacurate

- Multiple Windows are a struggle because the program is fullscreen

- Sometimes the program becomes uncontrollable, even in fullscreen mode, the work around is press ctrl + , to open settings and then close settings, then the fullscreen program becomes controllable again

- Max for live doesn't work or works inconsistently, your millage may vary

-- source: https://github.com/BEEFY-JOE/AbletonLiveOnLinux

Once you run the installer, and have a broken version of live running, you then have to install the Jack bridge to get audio working, after that you can install https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge to try and get some of your plugins working.

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

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Post by DetectDefect »

karmakaze wrote: post #166

The day that I need to update to macOS 26 for continued security patches is the last day I'll choose to run macOS. I'm pretty much all on Linux for non-work stuff anyway with an old Windows 'gaming' PC that only runs a 10 year old game.

> update to macOS 26 for continued security patches

Are you certain that is not already the case? Or do we still truly believe Apple has the capacity, resources and motivation to care about two version of their operating system at one time?

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

jama211 wrote: post #343

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.

These are real concerns for UI design; excessive padding, limits on information density, inconsistent spacing, clashing elements.

Does an engineer complaining about a car with hexagonal wheels have “old man yells at cloud” energy? Yeah the car still runs, and might even look cool, but it’s a stupid choice by any professional standards.

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

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Post by andrekandre »

franktankbank wrote: post #242
lapcat wrote: post #88

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Jobs did not run on a fixed annual schedule like Tim Cook does. Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 all took over 12 months to develop, sometimes much more, and 10.5 was famously delayed out to 30 months. Jobs may have pushed engineers, but he was more careful about what he pushed out the door to consumers.

Doesn't sound very agile..............

agile is no silver bullet...

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

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Post by rootusrootus »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #221
rootusrootus wrote: post #188

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> 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…

Teenagers supposedly care. But I've never seen adults who care in the least what kind of phone someone has.

I've heard that, but anecdotally, neither of my two teenagers care at all. Maybe it used to matter in the past, but these days all the kids seem to be on Discord and any phone will do.

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

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

jakeydus wrote: post #302
hagbard_c wrote: post #291

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A new ${computer_brand} with Linux doesn't show you any ads, doesn't add more bloat than you let it, doesn't insist on you creating any iCloudy or Microsofty accounts, doesn't try to police what software you run on the thing, doesn't try to upsell you to some ${precious_metal} plan, doesn't insist your 5 year new computer is obsolete, doesn't spy on you, etcetera. What are you waiting for?

Oh I 100% agree, but what consumer-grade Dell comes with Linux out of the box?

Well, they do have a couple, in theory (if they were in stock)...

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sr/all-products...

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Post by spencercwood »

treetalker wrote: post #87
uxp100 wrote: post #13

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iOS 26 is also very bad. Many Christmas conversations between boomers baffled by their phones, and as I younger (than boomer) person I am not as baffled but there are a number of things that take more button presses than they did in previous versions for no apparent reason. And it’s real ugly imo.

Viewing all tabs in Safari is the thorn in my side.

You can swipe up (or maybe down if you put it on top) on the address bar and it will take you to the all tabs view.

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

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Post by docmars »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #284
docmars wrote: post #256

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Wow I completely forgot that Spaces were also vertically oriented. I miss that.

It was really nice. With the current linear design I organize desktops by theme (e.g. one for dev, one for research, etc) and with the 10.5/10.6 design I'd use vertical desktops for subcategories — so following the same example, on a single screen setup I might have desktops arranged something like: │ Rails Docs/Search │ Backend Dev │ Music │ ├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────┤ │ UIKit Docs/Search…

The added dimension really made things intuitive so you weren't left guessing which vertical had to do with what. One space would give you enough context to know what might be next navigating up/down. It's really a shame how disruptive the change to Mission Control was by removing them.

I tend to organize my spaces by projects and then a dumping ground for "everything else" like general browsing and music.

For projects, unique windows are typically: IDE, Browser(s)

For apps I commonly use across spaces, I assign them to "All Desktops" so they follow me, like iTerm2 and Heynote for keeping notes / task lists even if they cover multiple projects.

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

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

Hurts to even look at this post. Today I pulled up a podcast episode in apple podcasts for Mac and could hardly see the app buttons that got obscured by the window turning black to "match" the episode artwork. When I found the buttons, I could literally not read their labels because they were now black on black. This is just asinine at this point. The design change should have been aborted before it became such a mess that it distracts from fixing all of Apples other problems.
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