To be honest I just installed last night and the only significant change I notice are the round corners. And now the email app have a progress indicator.
Other than that is just windows vista visuals, but not as shit as windows vista.
macOS Tahoe
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Re: macOS Tahoe
#672I'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.
If you live in Figma then you never have to use what you design.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#673Earlier quoted context omitted.
CopyQ works for forever history for me, it also doesn't save copied passwords, which is nice.
How does it detect passwords? Usually those are just plain-text when copied. https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/ Either way, I think it is better to not copy passwords to the clipboard or the selection, but store and transfer them via password-manager/browser/etc APIs.
With KDE on Wayland, there is a clipboard hint MIME type `x-kde-passwordManagerHint` for passwords that clipboard managers can choose to drop.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#674Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
Well, the highest resolution MacBook has less than 4K resolution and there's plenty of 4K laptops out there... Most "business" centric laptops work great with Linux, as long as you use a well supported distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, openSuse). YMMV if you use other distros...
I think it’s debatable whether full 4K makes any sense on a 14” or 15” screen.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#675The poor application scripting story on macOS has made me grumpy for the last few releases of macOS.
AppleScript was never good, but the tooling has been left to rot and other language bindings steadily deprecated. And it seems it has not improved in Tahoe. I know the product manager of scripting for macOS ran it into the ground before being let go, but I've seen no discernible improvements.
For a platform touted as the first choice for technical users, this is a really poor showing.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#676(This about iOS, not Mac, but obviously a lot is similar.) I might be in the minority on hn, but I’m using iOS 26 for the first time today and am pretty happy with the new design. For one, it’s a lot snappier and faster. I’m glad they finally did something about the slow-ass animations iOS had in a lot of places. Secondly, it has a lot more personality. I enjoy that. Thirdly, they finally moved more basic UI stuff cl…
I don’t mind the visual appearance of iOS 26. My main gripe is that this update introduces some pointless additional taps for common interactions. Here’s some of the UX regressions: - Apple Music: the “next track” button is only visible if the tab bar is expanded. So now we have to scroll or tap, wait for an animation and then click next. - Web views search web for selected text: previously we could highlight, swipe…
Personally, I like the vertical list in the web view for highlighted text. The action menu was so annoying. The items were always in a different order and I always had to highlight, tap, tap, tap… on small targets to get to what I wanted.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#677I don't like things getting more and more round (quite often having custom css with `* { border-radius: 0px !important; }`) and they are going even worse with it.
I don't like transparency - it's flashy but in overwhelming majority of cases is just a gimmick distraction (like transparent terminals on linux)
Sticking to Squoia
Re: macOS Tahoe
#678Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Are you not calling the MacOS sound-panel a window? When I click on the bluetooth icon in the top bar of MacOS it pops out a little list, and each bluetooth option has a toggle next to it where I can click to toggle. In my version of Gnome, I click at the top bar to open a menu, then click Bluetooth On (or the name of the currently connected device). That pops out a sub-menu, in which I click Bluetooth Settings. Th…
If it annoys you then do look for an extension e.g. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1401/bluetooth-quick-... Recent vanilla gnome has the same type of pop-up as MacOS but it does it does have one more click to expand possible connections if changing connection not just toggling. You could use no clicks and truly no windows with "bluetoothctl connect ..." :)
It doesn't annoy me; it's just not as good! Glad to hear that when I upgrade it'll be almost a copy of the MacOS design by the sound of it.
> You could use no clicks and truly no windows with "bluetoothctl connect ..." :)
Sadly I change connection between my phone, my work laptop, and my home Ubuntu manually. Otherwise it'd just stay connected!
Re: macOS Tahoe
#679I should know better, but I'm still surprised they're shipping this version of Liquid Glass. Performance is stable but there are so many UI bugs and inconsistencies that haven't been fixed from early betas, including low-hanging fruit that a second year design student would notice. I don't mind change or interface elements moving around but keynote-level UI overhauls should be fully implemented at launch, otherwise p…
This is always how it goes. The big change happens, and it’s refined over time.
For what it’s worth, there where threads here on HN where people complained at length about the bugs and inconsistencies in the previous version of the Apple operating systems.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#680I'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 are also under-the-hood changes that I found truly upsetting: among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable or become so slow after a day that they are almost unusable. Tracing things on Instruments suggests a culprit (the culprit?) is NSAutofillHeuristicController. This is not a new feature…
The following should fix that:
defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled "NO"