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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

pants2 wrote: post #21
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotlight got a major upgrade. It’s notably faster and deeply integrates with Shortcuts (letting you specify input variables, for example) among other things.

Anyone using Raycast has had these features forever. Nice to see some attention on Spotlight but it's still nowhere close to the functionality you get from Raycast.

Raycast is interesting but I’m not going to touch it so long as VC funding is involved. Alfred has been doing the job well enough, only requires me to buy a new version a couple times per decade, and isn’t going to become enshittified because there’s no VCs to come knocking looking for a profit.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by hombre_fatal »

pants2 wrote: post #27

How has Apple still not addressed many basic UI issues, such as menu bar icons disappearing behind the notch with no way to see them?

And the apps that provide solutions for it, like Bartender, need screen reading permissions which I just can't bring myself to grant.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by highwaylights »

jsheard wrote: post #16
ddtaylor wrote: post #14

This seems like a relatively minor update.

This is the last ever version with Intel support, right? That's a milestone of sorts.

Which is a bit sad. There were some choices that didn’t pan out in the last Intel era (butterfly, touchbar), but part of me loved those changes (the keyboard and the touchbar felt super premium, until you tried to work with them for any amount of time).

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by mikestew »

xnx wrote: post #28

I had thought Tahoe was the first version to drop Intel CPU support, but it looks like it will be the last version to still support Intel Macs.

Two of the latest Intel MacBooks, and the last Intel iMac, so technically, yes, there’s still some Intel support in there. My 2019 iMac is one version too old.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

highwaylights wrote: post #38
jgbuddy wrote: post #19

I really hope spotlight didn't just get ruined

I mean it’s gotten bad already, but I think people’s hope is that they fixed it that if I type in a file name I work with all the time it’ll be the first result. At least that’s what I’m hoping for.

that and some kind of weighted memory for search history. i use photoshop almost daily, photos once a month or so, and photo booth once a year, but they appear in reverse order based on alphabetization.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by nozzlegear »

pants2 wrote: post #27

How has Apple still not addressed many basic UI issues, such as menu bar icons disappearing behind the notch with no way to see them?

I think they kinda did? I'm not sure where to look for a link to this info, but I remember watching a YouTube video showing the ability to group and hide menu bar icons in Tahoe so they take up less space (and therefore encroach less toward the notch).

Maybe I'm misremembering the video though.

(edit) The linked page seems to hint at it:

> Personalized controls and menu bar. Your display feels even larger with the transparent menu bar. And you have more ways to customize the controls and layout in the menu bar and Control Center, even those from third parties

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by wrs »

pants2 wrote: post #27

How has Apple still not addressed many basic UI issues, such as menu bar icons disappearing behind the notch with no way to see them?

In case you don't know, at least there's a setting to help:

    defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by [deleted] »

ryandrake wrote: post #17
ksec wrote: post #4

Any actual interesting changes under the hood other than UI changes? I cant remember the last time macOS release that actually brings any useful feature I use.

It's been so long since Apple has released anything in either iOS or macOS that excited me as a user. I don't seem to be their target customer anymore. The only reason I even have to "upgrade" to a higher version number is how quickly app developers (including Apple themselves) drop support for older OS's. My iPhone which is stuck on iOS 15 runs just as well as the day I bought it, but every other app I download tell…

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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by joshstrange »

I'm normally on about 1 year delay on upgrading macOS for a multitude of reasons. I might not wait the full year but something else will have to force me to upgrade within the first few months.

I'd heard from people who were running the betas that it's not ready and they are surprised Tahoe wasn't delayed.

No way I'm upgrading any time soon to Apple's least cared for OS with a change this big (and this untested).

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