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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by e40 »

anon7000 wrote: post #334

(This about iOS, not Mac, but obviously a lot is similar.) I might be in the minority on hn, but I’m using iOS 26 for the first time today and am pretty happy with the new design. For one, it’s a lot snappier and faster. I’m glad they finally did something about the slow-ass animations iOS had in a lot of places. Secondly, it has a lot more personality. I enjoy that. Thirdly, they finally moved more basic UI stuff cl…

I don't really like the look, but I noticed it feels a lot faster, too. That is certainly welcomed!

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by WuxiFingerHold »

I hate to say it, but Windows is much more productive than MacOS for the usually tasks you perform on an OS (with GUI, both have CLIs, but I'm not talking about them). I'm using both at work all day long switching between them. When reflecting why, I think it comes down to windows management and the file explorer (vs finder).

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by mitemte »

piskov wrote: post #378
anon7000 wrote: post #334

(This about iOS, not Mac, but obviously a lot is similar.) I might be in the minority on hn, but I’m using iOS 26 for the first time today and am pretty happy with the new design. For one, it’s a lot snappier and faster. I’m glad they finally did something about the slow-ass animations iOS had in a lot of places. Secondly, it has a lot more personality. I enjoy that. Thirdly, they finally moved more basic UI stuff cl…

The worst thing is Safari removing all tabs button. Quick way is to pinch out with two fingers but that is impossible one-handed. Another is to swipe up (or left/right) on address bar but that often triggers app switching because he indicator is 3mm lower

Settings > Safari > Set tabs to “Bottom”. This gives you back the old style bottom bar, including the all tabs button.

The “Compact” UI option is complete and utter garbage.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by winrid »

hajile wrote: post #418
rcarmo wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I count four different corner radius sizes currently on my screen, which is maddening. Apple has a thing against people with OCD. Or taste. The thing is horribly wasteful of screen real estate, and as someone who’s been writing a Mac blog for over two decades, I am so happy I started using Fedora two years ago—GNOME has its flaws, but it looks nicer than Tahoe.

Doesn't MS still have screens rendered like Windows 3.1 or Win95 in some corners of the OS?

Yeah because some enterprise customers override/extend those panels.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by heavyset_go »

ryandrake wrote: post #185
setopt wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got my first MacBook at Catalina, and still miss it. For a while, I downgraded my Intel Mac to Catalina again; I love the aesthetic compared to the newer releases, and it’s fast and snappy. But the situation now is: No recent apps work on Catalina since it’s considered obsolete (except open-source apps you compile yourself). But Big Sur and higher are ridiculously slow on Intel hardware, to the point where it’s unu…

I’ve got a MacBook and Mac Mini stuck on Monterey (12), and an iMac stuck on Big Sur (11). I’m pretty much dead in the water when it comes to software compatibility, unless I want to put Linux on them. Even homebrew gives me a warning that they’ve stopped support and to expect everything to break. It’s a sad state of affairs.

This[1] worked well to upgrade old Macs that were stuck on old versions of macOS for me, if you're not choosing to stay on older versions for other reasons.

[1] https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by micromacrofoot »

_2d30 wrote: post #233

I decided to install this and the updated iOS today to see how I felt about it. My very initial impressions on MacOS: (1) I like the look of Safari better and the Mail app compared to the prior designs. They both look really nice to me and the Mail app especially looks like a huge improvement in terms of design unification with some of the features like summaries and unsubscribe options that looked bolted on in the p…

Spotlight improvements are one of the only things I actually like about it so far, it's unbelievable how bad messages app looks... we're certainly losing some space in cases where they're doing this weird sidebar container

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by mitemte »

anon7000 wrote: post #334

(This about iOS, not Mac, but obviously a lot is similar.) I might be in the minority on hn, but I’m using iOS 26 for the first time today and am pretty happy with the new design. For one, it’s a lot snappier and faster. I’m glad they finally did something about the slow-ass animations iOS had in a lot of places. Secondly, it has a lot more personality. I enjoy that. Thirdly, they finally moved more basic UI stuff cl…

I don’t mind the visual appearance of iOS 26. My main gripe is that this update introduces some pointless additional taps for common interactions.

Here’s some of the UX regressions:

- Apple Music: the “next track” button is only visible if the tab bar is expanded. So now we have to scroll or tap, wait for an animation and then click next. - Web views search web for selected text: previously we could highlight, swipe the action menu and then tap the button. Now we have to highlight, tap the small arrow, wait for the horizontal list to animate into a vertical list, tap the button. They removed the ability to swipe the action menu. - Tab bars: since 2007, you could change tabs with one tap. Now it’s one or two taps, depending on whether it’s collapsed or expanded.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by ejoso »

WuxiFingerHold wrote: post #432

I hate to say it, but Windows is much more productive than MacOS for the usually tasks you perform on an OS (with GUI, both have CLIs, but I'm not talking about them). I'm using both at work all day long switching between them. When reflecting why, I think it comes down to windows management and the file explorer (vs finder).

I disagree on this.

I’ve used both interchangeably for decades and can swap between them without slowing. So much of this comes down to knowledge of and experiences with the quick/er ways for getting around.

For quite sometime using search tools is vastly more efficient for navigation and file movement than Explorer or Finder anyway.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by iqandjoke »

rcarmo wrote: post #211
smcleod wrote: post #95

I've been running it since the RC and am currently in the process of uninstalling it. The new UI is so incredibly ugly I honestly cannot understand how they thought it was acceptable to even released as a beta let alone an RC and now release. There's SO much padding and wasted screen real estate, disjointed looking floating inner panels, window corners that are so rounded you see gaps in full screen apps, inconsisten…

I count four different corner radius sizes currently on my screen, which is maddening. Apple has a thing against people with OCD. Or taste. The thing is horribly wasteful of screen real estate, and as someone who’s been writing a Mac blog for over two decades, I am so happy I started using Fedora two years ago—GNOME has its flaws, but it looks nicer than Tahoe.

It is only Apple can do. It needs courage and innovation.

We, as user should not be beta tester.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by [deleted] »

rectang wrote: post #427
basisword wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest surprise to me from this whole beta period is that a significant number of people used Launchpad. I have absolutely zero idea why when Spotlight has existed for more than 20 years. Why would you ever want to click and page through a giant iPhone screen on a desktop/laptop computer?

Launchpad is an easy gesture with the trackpad (pinch with thumb and three fingers), then type to filter and return to launch. I got used to it for stuff I don't keep in the dock (which is a lot, since I have the dock on the side and only a few things in it). I suppose Spotlight is OK as a substitute: COMMAND-SPACE, then type to filter and return to launch. It's a little more clunky (as the search results take a few…

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