macOS Tahoe

Post by leptons » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 4:52 AM UTC

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #390

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…

It’s ugly as hell and plain stupid. I couldn’t watch the WWDC and when I saw the screenshots I thought it was a joke. Giant buttons with weird padding and extreme transparency effects. This is going to sound harsh but it looks like when “working” from home, Apple engineers outsourced their work to amateurs online. I simply cannot believe that Apple is shipping an OS this out of touch with elegance. Steve Jobs said in…

Post by robmsmt » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 4:56 AM UTC

socalgal2 wrote: post #472

basisword wrote: post #266

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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?

I don't use Launchpad but I can say, for me, Spotlight sucks! It decides at random times not to complete. I have it set to show apps only. I don't want it to find other things. But quite often I'll press Cmd-Space and type something and it won't find it. For example I just tried "pho" and it did not show Photoshop (which is on my system) but did show stuff completely unrelated to apps and I double checked, I only hav…

Post by dismalaf » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 5:00 AM UTC

srid wrote: post #330

viraptor wrote: post #284

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> The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane. They're coming. Look for AMD Strix Halo chips. They're in the comparably comfortable efficiency range.

> AMD Strix Halo chips Do you happen to know any laptop that has a) equivalent screen quality (retina resolution), b) keyboard, c) trackpad but with full Linux support where all hardware pheripherals just work?

Post by leptons » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 5:05 AM UTC

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #394

OGEnthusiast wrote: post #160

The reason Liquid Glass on macOS specifically is getting so much blowback is that it isn't just updating the translucency effect with the new glass refraction effect - they've also increased the border radius of most windows, increased paddings in toolbars, sidebars, etc. and overall made the UI much less information-dense, which is wild for a desktop OS. If they had just changed the translucency effect, I think this…

Just thinking out loud. Maybe some people took remote working really seriously and just delegated their work to amateurs online while they traveled the world. Just saying. There’s no other explanation to how bad this is.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 5:11 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #482

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…

There's SO much padding and wasted screen real estate That seems to be a growing trend ever since "UX designers" started taking over (early 2010s?), to the point that I wonder if they're trying to see how far they can take it.