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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by 0xCE0 »

hkpack wrote: post #96
hamandcheese wrote: post #86

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Adding signing as a requirement can easily make what was once a very simple distribution mechanism into something much more complex - now you need manage signing certificates and keys to be able to build your thing. The cost is far far higher than the price.

But it doesn't in practice. I develop and distribute few free apps for macOS, and building / notarising is never a problem.

Code signing is absolutely disgusting practically and philosophically. It has very reasonable and good intent behind it, but the practical implementations cause great suffering and sadness both for developers (cert management, cost, tools) and end-users (freedom of computing).

It is ugly: https://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by trinix912 »

epolanski wrote: post #65
pavel_lishin wrote: post #20

> I am not suggesting Apple has fallen behind Windows or Android. Changing a setting on Windows 11 can often involve a journey through three or four different interface designs, artifacts of half-implemented changes dating back to the last century. Whenever I find myself stuck outside of Appleland, I am eager to return “home,” flaws and all. Hard agree with this. I sometimes have to boot up a windows laptop to play M…

I use both Mac and windows extensively and I'm not sure what are you referring to. You can access most settings by Windows + "yourquery".

> You can access most settings by Windows + "yourquery".

The search doesn't even work all the time. Sometimes it won't do fuzzy search, sometimes typing "bluetooth settings" will do a Bing search, some other time it will open a PDF, and so on.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mythz »

pjmlp wrote: post #472
mythz wrote: post #456

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Gaming/WSL kept me on Windows for a lot of the last decade, however after Windows 10 became EOL'd and Windows started turning into ad/spyware I finally gave it up over a year ago after 25+ years on Windows Desktops. Anyway Linux is liberating, Fedora Desktop is great, no ads in the OS, a Software Store/Installer I actually like to use, curated by usefulness instead of scam Apps. All my Windows Steam Games I frequentl…

I hardly find anything interesting about command-line, I grew up in a time where the command line was the only way to interact with home computers, it fails on me the interest on staying stuck in up to early 1980's computing model. Xerox PARC is the future many of us want to be in, not PDP-11 clones.

Weird flex, most commands, utilities, server software and remote tools are going to be run are going to be from the command-line. All our System Administration of remote servers uses the command-line as well since exclusively deploying to Linux for 10+ years.

Sure you can happily avoid the command-line with a Linux Desktop and GUI Apps, although as a developer I don't see how I could avoid using the terminal. Even on Windows I was using WSL a lot, it's just uncanny valley and slow compared to a real Linux terminal.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by nottorp »

pjmlp wrote: post #480
nottorp wrote: post #479

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Do you own a Playstation? :) If you're playing the likes of Fromsoft/Resident Evil/Kojima games on a PC, be it Windows or Linux, you're not playing on the platform those games were designed for.

The problem with your reasoning is that Windows/PC doesn't need to emulate Orbit OS and LibGNM, Sony also supports Direct X and Win32 directly on their engines.

"supports" as in I see articles in the PC gaming press about technical problems with From/Kojima games a year after I've finished said games on console with zero issues.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by sagacity »

berkes wrote: post #418
HexPhantom wrote: post #381

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What used to be a powerful, user-respecting OS is increasingly starting to feel like an iOS cousin with training wheels

What OS are you talking about? If Linux, you'll have to be more specific, because users don't use Linux. They use Android, Ubuntu, Gnome, pop!os, redhat etc.

They're clearly talking about macOS in that comment.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by torginus »

The surprising thing to me, is that I have been a Mac user since forever, I think Leopard was my first OS. Things have barely changed since then, there have been some subtle redesigns since then, but the desktop has remained largely static.

I don't understand why macOS has so many issues. I still encounter memory leaks and have to kill Finder or Dock every few days lest it eat all my memory.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #372
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #92

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Also while Apples software quality has definitely diminished over the years, Windows in the same period has utterly CRATERED. Like I get along fine with 11 for my gaming PC but with every single update one feature or another becomes notably broken.

Windows is indeed an execrable shitshow. Every aspect of it assaults the user with incompetence or outright hostility. First is the endless badgering to log in, LOG IN, LOGGGG INNNNN with an asinine Microsoft account. If you can tolerate that and actually get the OS running, you're wading through a wonderland of UI regressions and defects. The default hiding and disabling of options is infuriating. Try showing conten…

Wow, it’s almost like Linux in the late 1990s/early 2000s now!

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Mashimo »

lor_louis wrote: post #150
pavel_lishin wrote: post #20

> I am not suggesting Apple has fallen behind Windows or Android. Changing a setting on Windows 11 can often involve a journey through three or four different interface designs, artifacts of half-implemented changes dating back to the last century. Whenever I find myself stuck outside of Appleland, I am eager to return “home,” flaws and all. Hard agree with this. I sometimes have to boot up a windows laptop to play M…

To be fair, win11 is a nightmare in terms of usability. I can only assume a committee of eldritch beings and accountants designed it. It blows my mind that when right-clicking on a file in file explorer, the 'delete' option is hidden in a sub-menu under 'more options'.

I just tested it. It's in the first row, last item. [Cut | Copy | Rename | Share | DELETE ]

Out of old habit I always use shift + DEL key and did not notice it's in the top row now.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by joaomoreno »

With the hopes that Apple engineers are scanning this discussion:

- Using the iPhone to scan documents from Finder has recently stopped working on the second scan. I need to restart my phone to get it to work again.

- iPhone mirroring is terrible: laggy, UI glitches, drops click events, scrolling is a nightmare. This is when it actually even manages to connect.

- Often, with Airpods on, lowering the volume, shutting down the iPhone display and putting it in my pocket quickly enough will entirely turn off volume. If you happen to increase the volume instead, you'll get blasted with maximum volume in your ears.

- Use vertical tabs on Safari for one day. You'll see it actually crash a few times. Not to mention the UI glitches. - Open the App Store on macOS. It first opens empty, then the UI controls show up, then it flickers the entire UI. I am convinced it's a Web app.

- In System Settings, most of the sections you click have a delay in rendering. Nothing feels snappy in that app. I can actually click 3 sections quick enough for the second to never even be rendered.

- Sometimes dragging an application from the Dock popup menu into the Trash does nothing, even though it appears to have worked. I often find that it wasn't deleted at all, that I have to open Applications folder in Finder and hit Cmd-Backspace to delete it.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by pjmlp »

mythz wrote: post #483
pjmlp wrote: post #472

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hardly find anything interesting about command-line, I grew up in a time where the command line was the only way to interact with home computers, it fails on me the interest on staying stuck in up to early 1980's computing model. Xerox PARC is the future many of us want to be in, not PDP-11 clones.

Weird flex, most commands, utilities, server software and remote tools are going to be run are going to be from the command-line. All our System Administration of remote servers uses the command-line as well since exclusively deploying to Linux for 10+ years. Sure you can happily avoid the command-line with a Linux Desktop and GUI Apps, although as a developer I don't see how I could avoid using the terminal. Even on…

Sadly, because many of the authors live stuck in UNIX cli model instead of Xerox PARC REPL approach.

It is like praising Ratatui for what Turbo Vision, Clipper and curses were doing in 1990's, if I wanted that I would kept using Xenix and MS-DOS.

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