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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by jlvdh »

rvrb wrote: post #227
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.

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 was using Pop!_OS and really loved it. Feature wise it would be an excellent replacement and I love the idea of running Linux.

However, one day when I tried to update the Nvidia driver it failed and when I tried to revert back I got a bunch of errors. My computer is foremost a tool to me and I don't particularly enjoy nor have time for stuff like fixing drivers.

Despite apple's flaws it gives me something that just works everyday.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by throwaway290 »

nntwozz wrote: post #282
wrs wrote: post #47

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In case you don't know, at least there's a setting to help: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8

I have collected a long list of these types of settings over the years, for example disable font smoothing: defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 It used to be a checkbox, now there's only this command. Eventually that will be gone too, and none will be the wiser except the old who remember the good old days. I'm starting to think these settings are left there by rogue engineers who fight against t…

what is the purpose of disabling font smoothing?

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by skydhash »

josteink wrote: post #496
kkylin wrote: post #476

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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…

> 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. So basically my #1 work tool will no longer work. That’s a hard deal-breaker right there. As a longer-term means of escape, what’s the best way to run a «full» Linux desktop on a otherwise…

Parallel or Vmware (the former is paid and the latter is tortuous to download). Then you can go with debian (for minimal installation) or fedora (for ready to work desktop installation). Works quite great.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by al_borland »

_2d30 wrote: post #210
sys_64738 wrote: post #76

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It's truly hideous to look at. I really can't believe they went for these massively rounded corners. They're too stubborn to allow you to select an option for right angled corners again. They just tinker as there's no other real UI enhancements.

> They're too stubborn to allow you to select an option for right angled corners again. "right angled corners again" I have a feeling you aren't and haven't been a Mac user for a long time. When was the last time Macs had right angled corners!? 30+ years ago?

I think it was in the Steve Jobs biography (or maybe I read it somewhere else), that Jobs made them do rounded corners on the windows back on the first Macintosh after noticing the rounded corners on a table they had. The engineers complained about how much extra memory that would take on such a limited system, but they figured it out.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by al_borland »

sys_64738 wrote: post #76
rramon wrote: post #62

They went way too far with the corner radii and pill shapes imo, looks like a Fisher Price toy. Some inner buttons retained the old radii and don't match the outer window radii anymore.

It's truly hideous to look at. I really can't believe they went for these massively rounded corners. They're too stubborn to allow you to select an option for right angled corners again. They just tinker as there's no other real UI enhancements.

Whenever I see people try to make their Linux environment look modern and fancy, they generally include extremely rounded corners.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by geerlingguy »

lylo wrote: post #581
bombcar wrote: post #285

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It's sad that the best Linux laptop right now arguably is a M4 Mac virtualizing Linux.

Framework?

Framework is nice but it's far from Apple's laptop hardware quality. The biggest draw of the Framework is its modularity.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by al_borland »

dsego wrote: post #120
markdog12 wrote: post #107

Whoa, you can now search clipboard history. Go to Spotlight Search, Command+4. You'll get a list of entries, each with a copy button, and is searchable. Even shows the app it was copied in.

Does that mean that add-on clipboard managers like Maccy are obsolete now?

In most cases Apple’s integrations do the 20% that 80% of users want. Third party apps give the additional 80% of features that the 20% may want.

How obsolete those apps are depends on you as a user.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by reddalo »

niek_pas wrote: post #605
reddalo wrote: post #550

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I agree, it's hideous. I miss the cleanliness of macOS Sierra. I'll just stay on Sequoia for the time being, and then switch to Linux.

Curious what your life is like that you can 'just' switch to Linux. For me changing desktop OSes at this point would be like moving to a different country.

I'm a developer. I'll only miss the iOS Simulator to try my Expo apps, but I can use a real device instead.

I'll also miss OneDrive, but I can switch to other providers with Linux support (e.g. Dropbox).

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by karel-3d »

esskay wrote: post #602
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…

The whole "Liquid Glass" UI is by far their worst ever take on a design language. It feels like stepping backwards to web 2.0 but with even bigger accessibility issues. It doesn't look or feel modern, its ugly, inconsistent and just all around crap. God knows what they were thinking with this. Also who on earth green lit these low resolution looking blurry icons everywhere?!

I don't mind it on iOS I need to say, I was expecting to hate it and it's... okay. I like that I can make all icons just black.

It's really atrocious on macOS though. The new Finder looks so stupid. Preview now has artificially rounded corners in PDFs! What are we even doing here.

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