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macOS Ventura is now available
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Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#382I’m usually excited about macOS releases but this one is an underwhelming update and don’t see any reason to update any time soon. Stage manager seems like a half measure to introduce better window management in macOS and it doesn’t help that it doesn’t support a keyboard only workflow, from what I can tell from the demos. Coming from i3wm, I found Yabai to be an excellent keyboard-first window manager. I do wish som…
Guys, which freaking keyboard-only window management yall looking for so hard? My daily workflow is jumping between 10 apps on different spaces, some of them are full-screen, some are just piled on one desktop, and the CMD+Tab just works perfectly all the time, you just press the CMD+Tab, select the app you need, jump to it, no focus lost, only distraction is the damned sliding animation (which
everyone wants to turn off for 10 years). What other damn bicycle you need to jump between apps lol
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#383I’m usually excited about macOS releases but this one is an underwhelming update and don’t see any reason to update any time soon. Stage manager seems like a half measure to introduce better window management in macOS and it doesn’t help that it doesn’t support a keyboard only workflow, from what I can tell from the demos. Coming from i3wm, I found Yabai to be an excellent keyboard-first window manager. I do wish som…
Guys, which freaking keyboard-only window management yall looking for so hard? My daily workflow is jumping between 10 apps on different spaces, some of them are full-screen, some are just piled on one desktop, and the CMD+Tab just works perfectly all the time, you just press the CMD+Tab, select the app you need, jump to it, no focus lost, only distraction is the damned sliding animation (which everyone wants to turn…
FYI You can turn off the animation and make most of the screen transitions less jarring using the Accessibility settings.
(Reduced motion iirc, I don’t have my Mac with me now)
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#384I’m usually excited about macOS releases but this one is an underwhelming update and don’t see any reason to update any time soon. Stage manager seems like a half measure to introduce better window management in macOS and it doesn’t help that it doesn’t support a keyboard only workflow, from what I can tell from the demos. Coming from i3wm, I found Yabai to be an excellent keyboard-first window manager. I do wish som…
Wouldn't it be awesome if Apple added window-snapping, and i3wm-like keyboard support? They'd leapfrog every other OS in an area where they've been behind for a while, and gain tons of praise from power users. There's so much low-hanging power-user-fruits that Apple's bizzarely not picking, like uBlock Origin support in Safari, better window management, and a Homebrew-like package manager.
Check out Rectangle for window snapping. I found it good enough and not overly complicated.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve used macs since system 7 and it went from oh I know what to click to basically me typing in the search bar for what to find.
In recent years I've been using the search bar a lot anyway, since the modal nature of the old System Preferences app wasn't great for quickly checking through several settings screens. And I often forget where some settings are — the taxonomy is not always so clear. The new Settings app seems like an improvement to me. The vertical list of settings categories is easier to quickly scan, and it remains visible all the…
>The new Settings app seems like an improvement to me.
While using Gnome's style for the settings application is a huge improvement, the implementation is laggy and doesn't scroll smoothly. And it takes a while for each Stack item to load and render when it's selected. x86_64 here.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guys, which freaking keyboard-only window management yall looking for so hard? My daily workflow is jumping between 10 apps on different spaces, some of them are full-screen, some are just piled on one desktop, and the CMD+Tab just works perfectly all the time, you just press the CMD+Tab, select the app you need, jump to it, no focus lost, only distraction is the damned sliding animation (which everyone wants to turn…
FYI You can turn off the animation and make most of the screen transitions less jarring using the Accessibility settings. (Reduced motion iirc, I don’t have my Mac with me now)
It helps if your problem is only the visuals, but sadly reduce motion keeps all the delays the same. There's a 1.5 second delay when switching spaces with the touchpad gesture (on 120Hz screens; the animation takes longer the higher FPS it's running at), and that animation turns into a 1.5 second fade animation with reduce motion. The new space doesn't gain focus any faster.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#387So they keep providing updates mostly focusing on people that heavily rely on the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, Mail & Safari, ...), without seriously improving the fundamental features of the OS. Well: very disappointed, again.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't it be awesome if Apple added window-snapping, and i3wm-like keyboard support? They'd leapfrog every other OS in an area where they've been behind for a while, and gain tons of praise from power users. There's so much low-hanging power-user-fruits that Apple's bizzarely not picking, like uBlock Origin support in Safari, better window management, and a Homebrew-like package manager.
Check out Rectangle for window snapping. I found it good enough and not overly complicated.
Yeah, that's what I use. There's just no good reason not to Sherlock it; if not for the fact that every single Mac power user would expect Apple to bundle a crippled, simplified version, to "dumb it down for the masses". Sigh.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
I vehemently disagree, Snow Leopard was the champion.
Fellow Snow Leopard fan here. Best version of any OS, ever, in my estimation.
+1
I wasn’t even on a Mac at the time but I was highly impressed by it. I modded the hell out of Windows to match SL visually.
I’m looking forward to the next SL release, assuming it ever happens.
Re: macOS Ventura is now available
#390The update is cool but the update process was not. -Update available, wanna install? Sure -OK don't mind me I'm gonna need a while OK -HA HA I LIED I"M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE WTF 5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes I guess it's a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking -OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone…
You forgot the part where macOS "restores all the windows", which it never gets right, so you get pop-ups from Notes, Maps, Music, etc. telling you at the same time "Here's what's new".