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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rekoil »

egeozcan wrote: post #517

Last week, I switched to a Mac for the first time in my life after using Windows and Linux for around 30 years. Naturally, I hate a lot of things due to old habits, and the shortcuts constantly confuse me. But what really surprises me is the number of obvious bugs in common workflows. At least five times a day, I catch myself thinking, "There's no way this is actually broken." I didn't expect macOS to be even buggier…

Off the top of my head I'm mainly thinking about `cut and paste` in Finder, that's a very common one people complain about, but other than that I'm curious what you're referring to if it's happening five times a day with new things, any chance you could outline some examples?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by nottorp »

pjmlp wrote: post #495
nottorp wrote: post #484

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"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.

Where is Windows Proton like for Playstation APIs? "Technical issues" has many meanings.

The point is, "the platform those games were designed for" is the Playstation API for some titles. So you'll get the best experience on there.

Unless you play benchmarks instead of games, and care about 8k/1200 fps of course.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rekoil »

virtualritz wrote: post #508

It's curious how the author mentions iMessage. No Apple user among my friends in Europe uses that. Zero. I guess in the US this is very much not so. It's all WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal here, nowadays. I.e. they wouldn't know about bugs in iMessage as they never open it. I'd be curious to hear about other regions of the world. Do people there use iMessage?

I think it's different from country to country, here in Sweden I think iMessage is reasonably popular, and people here generally go to Facebook Messenger rather than WhatsApp when it comes to cross-platform communication.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by wolvesechoes »

nottorp wrote: post #477
pjmlp wrote: post #466

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So it is not really a failure when the solution is to adopt Windows and Direct X translation API? I thought only Apple had a distortion field.

Is it a failure when everyone writes javascript/html/css instead of doing native applications for non gaming? Most of HN seems to think using a web browser as a translation layer is a good idea, yet they complain when games use a translation layer.

Is it a failure when everyone writes javascript/html/css instead of doing native applications for non gaming?

Yes?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by jamespo »

pjmlp wrote: post #396
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

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> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

The reason that keeps me on Windows, is that you left out of your list gaming and 3D graphics on laptops. Metal isn't really on pair with Vulkan and DirectX in terms of relevance for graphics programming, the M chips aren't up to NVidia ecosystem, SYCL, the two major compute APIs for any kind of relevant GPGPU workloads, and thus don't really matter. And gaming, well, even though all major engines support Metal, ther…

Gaming on windows is fine, but there's no reason to use windows for anything else. Dual boot to linux for a better desktop and none of the crud that Windows 11 has in it.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by yard2010 »

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…

You said no word about the god damn candy crush ads. As if we don't have enough sources for cancer and other terminal illnesses

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by timeon »

pjmlp wrote: post #396
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

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> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

The reason that keeps me on Windows, is that you left out of your list gaming and 3D graphics on laptops. Metal isn't really on pair with Vulkan and DirectX in terms of relevance for graphics programming, the M chips aren't up to NVidia ecosystem, SYCL, the two major compute APIs for any kind of relevant GPGPU workloads, and thus don't really matter. And gaming, well, even though all major engines support Metal, ther…

I haven't been gaming since when there was huge gap between graphical possibilities and actual design (that is beginning of 3d era) - so I do not miss that. However I can see the decline in macOS, like pushing for 'apple intelligence', more and more restricting gatekeeper, iOS-ification of desktop (ie.: mentioned system settings), constant connections to AWS, etc.

But since I'm not gaming I cannot imagine going back to Windows. On the other hand I'm quite enjoying Linux...

> So why pay more for a lesser experience

...however, with few exceptions, I haven't used mouse in decade... and I haven't found anything like MBP's touchpad yet. Maybe I just need to do better research.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Nextgrid »

microtonal wrote: post #390
rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased I think the decline of software went hand-in-hand with the decline of the native indie Mac app. They still exist, but when I started with the Mac (2007), there was a very rich ecosystem of native Mac apps. Most stood head and shoulders above their Linux and Windows counterparts. Apple has nearly destroyed that ecosystem with:…

> 1Password tried SwiftUI for their Mac app

1Password had a beautiful native Mac app that works to this day. Even assuming SwiftUI is actually bad, why did they have to migrate at all? What was wrong with the existing app?

I'm not disagreeing with the opinions on Apple software quality, but I think the 1Password case is more down to their taking of VC money and having to give (JS) devs some busywork to rebuild something that worked perfectly well.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by latexr »

paradite wrote: post #350
KennyBlanken wrote: post #292

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There's extensive documentation. Examples: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/code-sign... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin... There are dedicated sections of the developer web forums: https://developer.apple.com/forums/topics/code-signing-topic https://developer.apple.com/forums/topics/code-signing-topic... ...and there's an apple developer support person, Quinn, who appea…

As someone who actually signs, notorizes and distributes desktop apps for macOS, I can safely say their documentation is less than ideal. Maybe because I'm using Electron framework which makes things more complicated, but I don't really understand why there's is a difference between different types of certificates (Developer ID, Apple distribution, macOS distribution) and I had to guess which one to use everytime I s…

> Also why is notorization a completely different process from code signing

Because they do completely different things. Signing is a proof that you were the one to write and package that software; notarisation is an online security check for malware. If I recall, you still sign but do not notarise when distributing to the Mac App Store.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Nextgrid »

sph wrote: post #433
amluto wrote: post #284

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Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1-2 frames of the input showing up). Instead, it finds it sometimes. On occasion I need to hit backspace (removing a letter that should match) to get it to find it. I struggle to imagine the software design that works so poorly.

I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere, not just Spotlight. I have that same issue on Firefox, and with Windows Search, for example. And it makes no sense whatsoever. If "foo" matches "foobar", so should "foob". I honestly don't know how the hell can they still f up such a simple piece of technology in 2025.

Windows 7 start menu search was always reliable and had predictable behavior from my experience. It can be done, just that modern software engineers' skills and career incentives no longer permit it.
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