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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 steve-atx-7600 »

apexalpha wrote: post #156
jjice wrote: post #43

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter. Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and…

>I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. I do, and the fact that it isn't even optional is crazy. Windows Vista vibes where they first looked at what the could technically pull off on todays' hardware. And mind you: Liquid Glass is very impressive! . It's just not necessary.

I can't remember windows vista actually making content illegible or reduced the content area in a focused window like Apple has done.

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

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Post by rurp »

zingar wrote: post #318
baq wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d love an XFCE (or even gnome tbh) environment on a properly built laptop, unfortunately only Apple is able to build something that works in all areas that matter: sleeps when lid closed, wakes when lid opens, touchpad and display don’t suck.

I don’t see anyone in these replies really addressing the touchpad. Would love to hear from people who have used macbooks if they have found a Linux machine that matches the Apple trackpad. “Never tried a MacBook, my Linux machine trackpad always worked perfectly” is the usual response I get when I press for a response… but without trying Apple (on this one thing) you’ll never understand until you’ve experienced the…

I switched from mac to linux for my personal dev machine 5-6 years ago but kept using macbooks at work until recently. The keyboard and trackpad are slightly better on macs in my experience, but the difference is small enough that I never think about it.

One caveat is that I've never been a power user of trackpad gestures, so if that's central to your workflow I can't say how the platforms compare.

Overall I'm immensly happy about dropping Apple for Linux, it was definitely the right decision. The initial migration takes a bit to work out but the beautiful thing with Linux is that if you don't like something enough you can usually find a way to change or fix it; with Apple you're left screaming into the void.

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

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Post by joduplessis »

As others have noted here, LiquidGlass by itself isn’t a bad idea.

However, the execution is horrible. Massively inconsistent border radii, a Finder window that reminds me of the Engineers’ ship from Prometheus, laggy performance, illegible fonts due to overlays, and the list goes on. Tahoe is so badly designed that using Windows 11 feels like a breath of fresh air.

Curious if any Apple folk are on HN that could add some insight as to how it happened.

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

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Post by ako »

chb wrote: post #327
ako wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a thinkpad p1 with popos, but it doesn’t sleep properly. Closing the lid causes it to be super active. I have to lay it down up side down so the ventilation gaps are not blocked, otherwise it overheats. Burned one SSD this way.

Did you buy this from system76, or did you just install Pop!_OS on hardware you already owned?

Installed it myself, it’s not a system76 but a Lenovo thinkpad.

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

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Post by dwaite »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #27
efficax wrote: post #18

liquid glass is a total disaster. what the hell is going on in the ux teams at apple? this is like their windows vista era. i hate it so much

I'm almost positive that it's because they want to make as many apps as possible VisionOS-friendly. I suspect that they were rather shaken at how poorly AVP was received.

More likely the UX team touched AVP last, so some of the design language influenced what they were building.

The goal is most likely to unify the experience around iPadOS, so that one codebase ports down the phone and watch and over to the Mac and AVP.

The delta between Mac and iPad UX elements goes down every release. The latest one gave the iPad a menu bar and multi window support.

Looking at it from a certain angle, the iOS codebase is the only one which has a native team for a lot of large companies - they might not even create larger views for an iPad native version, and may instead ship Electron for the macOS release. Apple is trying to recruit the native mobile team to be able to support native releases for the whole ecosystem.

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

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Post by bigyabai »

jama211 wrote: post #344
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 peo…

> And it won’t be until the community recognises it has a problem, but all I see is denial.

Well, that's not fair to the community or yourself. You didn't outline your yearly install process whatsoever, for all we know you're installing Hannah Montana Linux and throwing in the towel. You can get a SteamOS-style environment on whatever Linux device you want, you just need to copy Valve's steps.

Additionally, you have to accept that you're just outlining perspective here. Linux was "ready" for my desktop in 2019. I played 4 hours of Cyberpunk last week with my GPU undervolted by 33%, no crash whatsoever. Your experience certainly doesn't reflect what most people say, so a lot of people will pass this by and say PEBCAK.

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

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Post by wltr »

runjake wrote: post #335
TacticalCoder wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Here's some of the stuff I had to do on my new Dell, from memory: Or, you know, just format the disk and install Linux.

If it were my choice…

How is it you could reinstall Windows, but not Linux? Or is it just mandatory to run Windows, but nobody cares if you reinstall it? My wife’s Windows laptop won’t allow me to even run Logitech Connect Utility, to reconnect some devices (pair a keyboard to the mouse). It surely won’t allow the full reinstall, it’s locked entirely. Hence, I’m curious what’s up with your work (I assume) laptop.

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

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Post by raffraffraff »

runjake wrote: post #274
socalgal2 wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is my shining moment! I just happened to setup a new Dell. It was far more cumbersome than dealing with a new Mac. Here's some of the stuff I had to do on my new Dell, from memory: - Uninstall all the bloatware apps that come installed with Windows 11. They nag and beg you not to uninstall them, but after several prompts, they mostly seem uninstalled? - Remove the trial offers from the Start menu. - Remove the t…

I haven't used Windows in years, but surely a clean install addresses some of that? I don't think I've ever used whatever default OS was preinstalled on a laptop or PC that I bought.

Or is the default Windows 11 just that full of shite?

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

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Post by RickyLahey »

rurp wrote: post #362
zingar wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t see anyone in these replies really addressing the touchpad. Would love to hear from people who have used macbooks if they have found a Linux machine that matches the Apple trackpad. “Never tried a MacBook, my Linux machine trackpad always worked perfectly” is the usual response I get when I press for a response… but without trying Apple (on this one thing) you’ll never understand until you’ve experienced the…

I switched from mac to linux for my personal dev machine 5-6 years ago but kept using macbooks at work until recently. The keyboard and trackpad are slightly better on macs in my experience, but the difference is small enough that I never think about it. One caveat is that I've never been a power user of trackpad gestures, so if that's central to your workflow I can't say how the platforms compare. Overall I'm immens…

only slightly better? really?
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