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Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by cytzol »

I was really hoping they'd take some time to address Catalina's glaring issues — its slowness, bugginess, just general sloppiness — and instead they did the opposite.

Honestly, every time Apple has done anything with the Mac the past couple of years, they've screwed it up. The infamous keyboards that they doubled-down and then tripled-down upon (I have personally had five keyboard replacements). The way Catalina sends the hash of every binary you run to Apple. The built-in Catalyst apps that look ugly and feel out-of-place. The Touch Bar which I still, years later, inadvertently activate several times a day (I've had to remove all the buttons on the right), which they addressed by making mandatory. The recurring bugs and kernel panics that have been lying around for years, unfixed.

I have the least confidence in Apple I've ever had. I'm afraid to run Big Sur, not because it changes things, but because it's Apple who are behind it.

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Post by lasagnaphil »

switz wrote: post #3

I still remember the Snow Leopard 'No New Features' launch. Mac OS has been as buggy as ever lately, I'd welcome another 'no new features' release with open arms.

Precisely - this is the perfect opportunity for Apple to do a "no new shiny things" release, given that they are going through quite fundamental changes in their Mac architecture.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by hollandheese »

quantummkv wrote: post #20

I just love the changes they did to the menubar. Adaptive background and extra padding on the menu items are both great changes I don't like the new dock design. Maybe they'll change it back to the old dock if the feedback is vocal?

They made it illegible with lots of backgrounds. I thought they had already learned their lesson with a fully transparent menu bar.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by dewey »

hollandheese wrote: post #58
quantummkv wrote: post #20

I just love the changes they did to the menubar. Adaptive background and extra padding on the menu items are both great changes I don't like the new dock design. Maybe they'll change it back to the old dock if the feedback is vocal?

They made it illegible with lots of backgrounds. I thought they had already learned their lesson with a fully transparent menu bar.

Luckily they are always pretty big on accessibility so there's always an option to turn all these things off.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by ljm »

lisper wrote: post #15

IMHO Apple's design jumped the shark a long time ago. Even apart from the aesthetics of the "flat" look, which I like about as much as fingernails on a chalkboard, Apple has completely abandoned the principles that made the original Mac great: ease of use and discoverability. Once upon a time it was easy to tell where the affordances were, what you could click on, editable vs non-editable text. Nowadays everything lo…

Based on how rough the Jira app is on Catalina, if MacOS is going to see more of that then I think I've had my day with Apple.
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