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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by anakaine »

shantara wrote: post #260
sho_hn wrote: post #219

Whew. Those screenshots: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-a... As a KDE Plasma dev, I always counted on us getting better, but I didn't expect the competition to get so much worse. We'd be flamed to high and heaven for shipping broken notification popups and rendering glitches like that in a prod release. What happened internally to cause this, I wonder?

The rumor mill speculates that Apple needed to ship something big and flashy to distract people from calling them out on their failure to deliver on the AI features promised (and previewed!) more than a year ago.

They probably should have just eaten the AI non delivery instead of now having two major failures.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by accrual »

The latest macOS updates have me pining for macOS Mojave. I really liked that release - first-class dark mode support that felt reasonably polished, it still had a "normal" Mac OS X style UI, 32-bit support if you wanted it, it was snappy even on my 3 year old 2015 MBPr, and I think it wouldn't look out of place on a modern M4 Mac even though it's a seven year old release.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by cyberpunk »

notsydonia wrote: post #619

Had such a bad experience with Sonoma, multiple micro-glitches that stole time and focus, that I dropped back to Ventura and have been avoiding updates ever since. The weird thing is that despite numerous bugs being logged all over the place, the 'new features' updates from Apple OS didn't seem to address any of them. They were mostly weird gimmicky new add-ons that don't mean anything to a power-user. I might be int…

You can remove the desktop widgets, no idea about turning off the clock though…

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by cyberpunk »

data-ottawa wrote: post #255
12_throw_away wrote: post #79

I swear I don't usually complain about UI styling updates, because it's usually not a big deal - but this looks really, really bad [1]. It's less functional with bizarre transparency choices destroying legibility, and big rounded corners taking up more dead space. And stylistically, the layouts just look unbalanced and amateurish (It reminds me of what happens when I attempt to do CSS layouts). Most Linux desktops un…

I'll give it a try, I installed the iOS and iPadOS betas and I actually like some of the changes. But I do not understand how the color-tinted UI/icons ever got shipped. They just look... bad...

That’s just a psychological experiment to see how many people go through the standard: enable puke disable cycle.

I too fell for it.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by axolttl88 »

kalleboo wrote: post #355
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…

The only thing that really bothers me with the macOS 26 design update is the complete lack of contrast. Everything is white-on-white with super subtle shadows. You can't see what tab is selected in Safari, you can't see what is a button, etc. And it doesn't even look good - it just looks like something is broken, like a texture failed to load.

Tab styling across the board is terrible. I'm struggling to read inactive tab labels in Terminal.

I've used and loved macs for decades. This is the first time (maybe the second, if you count early Apple Music) that I've thought they've lost their way.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by a012 »

I posted this before but again, this new OS from Apple is the deal breaker for me to buy any new devices from Apple again. And I’ll hold on the existing OS until Apple won’t provide any security updates anymore.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by ahoka »

luismedel wrote: post #539
hajile wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't MS still have screens rendered like Windows 3.1 or Win95 in some corners of the OS?

I'd pay (even more) for Apple to have the same backwards compatibility policy as Microsoft has.

They (sometimes) understand that UI is API.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by a012 »

rvrb wrote: post #227
rcarmo wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Fedora Silverblue is the closest feeling to the macOS experience I fell in love with that I’ve had on Linux in, well, ever. Very happy with it on my desktop and laptop. It’s not perfect but it is less imperfect than modern macOS has become. Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however.

I’ve tried Silverblue but it’s far from Mac experience, on my PC it feels sluggish and bloated. Perhaps I’m too simple but I only need a vanilla Linux just like now dead Intel Clearlinux with linux brew and Flatpak
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