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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by DidYaWipe »

amluto wrote: post #284
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…

Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1-2 frames of the input showing up). Instead, it finds it sometimes. On occasion I need to hit backspace (removing a letter that should match) to get it to find it. I struggle to imagine the software design that works so poorly.

Finder search is just as bad. You can be viewing a directory full of JPEGs, all with the jpg extension.

Then you do a search for .jpg, and get NOTHING. But only sometimes. Other times it'll work.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rcarmo »

donatj wrote: post #340
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

Like I pointed out elsewhere, it doesn’t stick for me.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rcarmo »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #282
adastra22 wrote: post #268

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> and there is no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage) OMG this one drives me bonkers. If anyone out there knows how to turn off internet results, please share!

Open Settings, scroll down to Spotlight. Unselect the things you don’t want. You’re welcome :-)

Like I pointed out elsewhere, it doesn’t stick for me.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rcarmo »

dannyobrien wrote: post #107
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…

I just wanted to say that I've been a keen reader of your blog for ... I guess, decades. I appreciate your work. Thank you.

Thanks!

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

joezydeco wrote: post #42
spudlyo wrote: post #32

I'm done with macOS, I've migrated to Linux for my general purpose computing. With every new release of macOS, Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass, increasing Apple's control over what software can be run on macOS, forcing apps to be signed with an Apple Developer ID. While I'm happy they are taking security seriously, I'm seriously creeped out that macOS sends hashes of every executable I run to their…

My group makes a custom executable to reflash a hardware device we produce. We build it for Linux and Darwin. Trying to get the program to work with our Mac users has become harder and harder. These are all internal developers. Enabling developer mode and allowing Terminal execution isn't enough. Disabling the quarantine bit works - sometimes - but now we're getting automated nastygrams from corporate IT threatening…

> emergency workaround

I once really urgently needed `nmap` to do some production debugging ASAP. Unfortunately, the security tools would flag this immediately on my machine, as I knew this from previous experiments. Solution - compile my own binary from sources, then quickly rename it. I assume that this "workaround" was totally fine for sec department. At least production got fixed and money kept flowing.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by onli »

rcarmo wrote: post #53
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

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> 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…

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.

What dou you mean with more integrated? It is a regular desktop PC with an apu (like is totally common for office PCs, just bigger) and soldered instead of upgradeable ram.

It would be kind of funny, but also very sad, if Apple guys mistook the copying of apple's worst behaviour - producing throwaway devices - as a sign of quality. Though I think we are there for years now with phones, I wouldn't expect such thinking here.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mat_b »

The article is spot on and articulated my feelings exactly. I too became a loyal Apple supporter nearly 20 years ago because "it just works". Sadly, I no longer feel this way. The operating systems on my Macbook, iphone and iPad have consistently gotten worse with each update over the last 5-10 years. Apple is losing the magic on the software front.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by icsrutil »

zombiwoof wrote: post #27
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…

Spotlight seemed to go from great to unusable in 5 years

8 years mac user here, never use Spotlight, it's a trash.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rcarmo »

onli wrote: post #366
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.

What dou you mean with more integrated? It is a regular desktop PC with an apu (like is totally common for office PCs, just bigger) and soldered instead of upgradeable ram. It would be kind of funny, but also very sad, if Apple guys mistook the copying of apple's worst behaviour - producing throwaway devices - as a sign of quality. Though I think we are there for years now with phones, I wouldn't expect such thinking…

It is fully designed around the limitations of that particular APU and makes the best of it, without being a generic motherboard.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by int_19h »

ziml77 wrote: post #303
p_ing wrote: post #230

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Just like System Settings in macOS! Always have to use keyword search in that thing. FWIW, search as a UI isn't a bad thing, Cmd + Space is the main way I launch apps on macOS (or Win + "type whatever").

Search feels to me like a good compromise between memorizing terminal commands (including the correct set of parameters to do what you want) and navigating through a UI to find what you're looking for.

Search is fine as a one-off thing, but if you repeatedly have to use search to find some common setting, that's a clear UX fail.

To be fair, it's hard to say whether the Settings app is more broken in Windows or macOS these days. I think I'd have to give the crown to macOS here on account of search itself being more broken.

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