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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by derefr »

viraptor wrote: post #293
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?

Because I vaguely remember that one icon I use every other month, but can't recall the name. The icons are also ordered by installation time, so it's easy to jump to the most recent ones. I use it rarely, but sometimes I'm happy it's there.

> The icons are also ordered by installation time, so it's easy to jump to the most recent ones.

If I had this need, it wouldn’t even occur to me to solve it with Launchpad; I would just go to /Applications in Finder and sort by “Date Added”. (Which is a non-default column, but a very helpful one, so the series of gestures to enable it for a given folder is almost reflexive to me now.)

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by latexr »

jmull wrote: post #362

I'm baffled by the hate. So far, it's just some nice looking cosmetic changes. All entirely inconsequential -- I've seen nothing yet that will affect my workflows in any way.

Wait until you use it a bit more and get some overlap into an unreadable mess.

Open System Settings right now, do a search, then scroll the view. That’s the least worst you’ll find.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by sto11z »

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 tried 3 betas of ios and then sold my iPhone and bought a Pixel, that's how disappointed I was from what I saw.

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Post by behnamoh »

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

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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?

So? That doesn't make what Apple is doing sound any better.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by behnamoh »

iqandjoke wrote: post #439
rcarmo wrote: post #211

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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.

> It is only Apple can do.

I've come to doubt this. Literally anything Apple does gets copied (sometimes even better than Apple's version).

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by jim180 »

green7ea wrote: post #486
srid wrote: post #330

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> 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?

The HP zbook g1a ultra is as close as you can get with Strix Halo. There are two screen options and the OLED one is high resolution. It's Ubuntu certified as well and can run LLMs nicely. The keyboard, trackpad, etc are all to notch. It's somewhere in between a mac pro and max. I have one and love it but it's not close to my wife's mac on battery life.

I've yet to understand the point of OLED, if it sits at 400nits. All Apple's devices from iPhone to Studio Display are brighter, some of them are much much brighter even with OLED :/

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by diffeomorphism »

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?

> retina resolution

That just means 3024x1964. With other laptops you can either go up a step to 4k or down to OLED 2880xsomething.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by _2d30 »

cornedor wrote: post #493
hk1337 wrote: post #265

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I really like the Apps change. Instead of opening up the icons full screen, it opens in a spotlight search window.

Except when I forgot the name of an app

CMD + SPC for spotlight and then CMD + 1 gets you to the full set of apps.
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