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Re: Broken

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Post by crispinb »

microtonal wrote: post #63
naringas wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

until you plugin a second simple HD monitor and everything looks huge on it

Not if you use Wayland. GNOME with Wayland works fine with screens with different DPIs.

Gnome does, but a WM that works isn't much use without apps that do likewise. Linux desktop software support for hdpi is an absurd mess. Some apps can switch resolution when you move them between screens. Others can't. When you combine this with Gnome's inability to deterministically start an app on the main monitor, this means sometimes it's sometimes literally impossible to get an app in the resolution & on the screen you want. Some apps start up with an apparently random resolution (Calibre, I'm looking at you!). What a horror show it is.

Re: Broken

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Post by extrapickles »

temac wrote: post #50
navidkhn1 wrote: post #24

I'm not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but Catalina is letting me login without entering my password! I have two users on my machine. 1. I "lock screen" from the Apple menu and close the lid. 2. I reopen the lid and it does not ask for password. 3. I start using laptop and lock screen suddenly pops up, but asks password for the wrong user. 4. I hit random key and the screen goes away, and i can continue working. A…

Despite having a lower quality than before since a few years, Windows has login and locking features that actually work (and I don't even really remember of bugs in there, like ever), so no, from what you describe it does not feel like Windows at all, it feels like some completely broken crap.

There were some good bugs in the login part of windows 2000/XP. Most of the ones I know of involve opening a browser while still on the login screen (my favorite was in the help for the screen reader), which is running as the System user that has complete control over the system.

Re: Broken

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Post by jeeceebees »

grzm wrote: post #18
GordonS wrote: post #12

I just upgraded to Catalina today on my MBP, and that screenshot of Allow/Deny notifcations hits the nail on the head! Likewise the popups about allowing apps to control other apps - what a wonderful way to introduce me to Catalina! I mean, come on, there has to be a better way than this, especially from a company supposedly famed for it's user-orientated designs and thinking?

How would you choose to handle it?

Detect when there are multiple apps that are asking for new permissions simultaneously and then ask the user if they want to go to the "bulk permission editing page" to manage them.

On that page there could be a grid of apps vs permissions with the permissions each app is requesting highlighted. One click to switch on each permission and even a power user could be on their way in a couple minutes.

LineageOS has a similar permissions list for all apps installed (albeit without a nice overview grid) that I think makes it very easy to manage what each app is allowed to do.

Re: Broken

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Post by magicbuzz »

mherrmann wrote: post #35
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What Linux distro do you run Xfce on?

Just Debian.

I'm posting in the Linux thread because it's probably annoying to some to see 'but I moved to Linux' threads throughout this comment.

But the original post is very sobering.

I left OS X a few years back when the new laptop came out. Partly the whole USB-C thing I suppose, but I felt that there was pretty good hardware around and the new MBP didn't really shine (and was fiercely expensive). So I made the move to Ubuntu on some new Lenovo hardware (Carbon X1).

I really look forward to the twice-yearly Ubuntu releases. More of the same, rarely any huge new surprises and just generally more polish. I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 immediately once the 19.10beta came out and it seems speedier.

I'm sorry to see Mac users get so badly burnt but I'm very glad I made the decision to leave when I did.

Re: Broken

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Post by robocat »

microtonal wrote: post #62
irq wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the biggest thing keeping me from leaving the Mac for Linux, and it hasn’t really improved much in the last 4 years. I don’t think most people care about HighDPI (or whatever you want to call it), particularly Linux devs. But I can’t go back to lower DPI screens.

I have used GNOME with HiDPI for two years on Wayland and it is great. Even Tk apps seem to support HiDPI these days. However, this is all assuming that 2x scaling is fine for you, support for fractional scaling is not great yet.

Ubuntu 18.04 using 2x scaling is broken in lots of little ways for me.

From the simple (boot screen runs at 1x so text is unreadable) to the wierd (VirtualBox tangle of bugs), to the frustrating (dolphin file manager, which I use to avoid UI bugs in the gnome file manager).

I found workarounds for some issues, and maybe they are fixed in the next LTS, but there is no way I could recommend 18.04 with 4k to a non-professional.

Re: Broken

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Post by twodave »

tylerhall wrote: post #48
DeadBabyOrgasm wrote: post #40

Looks like it's the HN hug of death for this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20191010183502/https://tyler.io/...

sigh I switched back to WordPress literally five days ago and haven't yet gotten around to installing a caching plugin. My bad. I've turned Cloudflare caching on in the meantime.

Mind sharing what thing you are fleeing _to_ Wordpress from and why? Genuinely curious.

Re: Broken

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Post by pram »

I've thought about the UX issue, and I believe a big problem is they've overloaded the existing Privacy tab. It worked before only because it didn't do a whole lot. Now that it's essentially an integral part of the OS experience, it really needed to be broken out into its own dedicated preferences pane like Notifications.

Look at the Notifications pane and how it's grouped by application, with many options to the right. It offers far more information and control, and has visual indicators. That is what the privacy UI should have been like.

Current solution is half baked and no one can argue otherwise.

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Post by gtirloni »

I'm not a macOS user but from what I'm reading, it seems Apple turned something akin to SELinux on by default but let users define the policies on the fly.

I remember a lot of headaches with SELinux on Fedora desktops years ago. It was not fun but I could always disable that if I didn't feel like fixing the policies myself. Lately, things barely pop up.

Re: Broken

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Post by Kenji »

rtempaccount1 wrote: post #43

It's interesting to see this from a MacOS release and the security complaints are similar to what's been seen about recent versions of Windows. To me, both are a manifestation of the idea that these two Operating Systems are moving in the direction of being safer for "ordinary users" at the expense of annoying more technical users who want to do less common things which can be dangerous if you're not careful (like ru…

Frankly, I find it much more dangerous if e.g. OneDrive deletes my desktop randomly or if MacOS doesn't let me log in. Stuff like `rm -rf folder` I still have to type myself, at least.

Re: Broken

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Post by ajsharp »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #47

> The final (well, first) Catalina release along with the outright awful public beta makes me think one thing. And that is Apple’s insistence on their annual, big-splash release cycle is fundamentally breaking engineering. I know I’m not privy to their internal decision making and that software features that depend on hardware releases and vice-versa are planned and timed years (if not half-decades) in advance, but I…

This reminds me of the fascinating NYT story about the lead up to the original iPhone announcement event: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s....

A choice excerpt:

> The iPhone could play a section of a song or a video, but it couldn’t play an entire clip reliably without crashing. It worked fine if you sent an e-mail and then surfed the Web. If you did those things in reverse, however, it might not. Hours of trial and error had helped the iPhone team develop what engineers called “the golden path,” a specific set of tasks, performed in a specific way and order, that made the phone look as if it worked.

I guess I post this here as a means to say, while what OP is talking about certainly sucks, Apple seems to have a long history of this. Doesn't make it better, and certainly what he's outlined seems extra bad, but not completely unexpected.

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