Is it bad that my primary motivation for considering an upgrade is getting my notes as Markdown?
macOS Tahoe
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Re: macOS Tahoe
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I used Mac for 10 years and started feeling the same irritation around 2017. In 2020 I finally bit the bullet and switched to Linux. The initial investment into getting a usable Arch desktop was horrible. It took several days just to get to the point of something that I could boot into and be productive. It takes me a long time to get things working the way I want, but I kind of enjoy that aspect of total customizati…
I fully get that macOS is not perfect, but checking out "modern" Linux (like a customized Arch) is a bit underwhelming. It still looks to me like Linux 20 years ago. And I started with Linux in the mid 90s. Not much has changed or improved on the pure fundamentals. I guess it's fine if all you do is sit doing CLI or spending your day in web browsers. Day to day macOS driving to me is an absolute joy (granted, I'm sti…
> It still looks to me like Linux 20 years ago.
I know this seems like a down side to you but the person you are replying to notes this as something they love about the platform. It not changing over time "just to change" is the point.
Re: macOS Tahoe
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The biggest surprise to me from this whole beta period is that a significant number of people used Launchpad. I have absolutely zero idea why when Spotlight has existed for more than 20 years. Why would you ever want to click and page through a giant iPhone screen on a desktop/laptop computer?
You don't have to click: Launchpad is available via an unmodified F4, so it's a single button press to bring up instantly, no matter what you're doing. You don't have to "page through a giant iPhone screen", you can type and select. I used to use it all the time, without ever reaching for the mouse to do so. Launchpad also let you change the order of app icons and group them into pages and folders; I don't think the…
F4 on my Macbook Pro brings up Spotlight, not Launchpad.
But, bringing up Spotlight, clicking backspace, then clicking on the Applications icon brings you basically Launchpad.
They've mushed them together, but there seem to be three states: Spotlight with typing pre-filled, Spotlight bare with some additional icon options, and then Launchpad, which is more Spotlight than I remember it being.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#824Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used Mac for 10 years and started feeling the same irritation around 2017. In 2020 I finally bit the bullet and switched to Linux. The initial investment into getting a usable Arch desktop was horrible. It took several days just to get to the point of something that I could boot into and be productive. It takes me a long time to get things working the way I want, but I kind of enjoy that aspect of total customizati…
> The best part is, though, nothing ever changes. Wasn’t true when they switched to systemd, or when KDE 4 came out, or when the new Gnome came out, or when the kernel renamed Ethernet interfaces to enps-whatever.
Those things are changes that are announced years before they happens and you would some distributions where they’re still using the old stuff. It’s not that unavoidable changes we you only have three years of holding on to the old stuff before being abandoned.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#825Every new version of MacOS exhibits four phenomena: 1. Old bugs are not fixed. 2. New bugs are introduced, and I have to spend hours online figuring out workarounds. 3. Old features I depended on are removed, and I have to spend hours online figuring out how to replace them. 4. New features I don't need are added and they get in my way, and I have to spend hours online figuring out how to disable them. My workflow pr…
I used Mac for 10 years and started feeling the same irritation around 2017. In 2020 I finally bit the bullet and switched to Linux. The initial investment into getting a usable Arch desktop was horrible. It took several days just to get to the point of something that I could boot into and be productive. It takes me a long time to get things working the way I want, but I kind of enjoy that aspect of total customizati…
>The best part is, though, nothing ever changes. I get things working the way I want, and it just stays that way year after year. No UI language updates, no replacing my default shell, nothing. It just keeps working the way I like.
While Arch might make you safer by virtue of choice, some of the more "beginner friendly" distros aren't immune to changing things seemingly overnight. Ubuntu for instance dropped GNOME for Unity which I still have bad memories of to this day.
Re: macOS Tahoe
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Apple Notes now supports Markdown import and export. Spotlight now supports actions, so you can do things directly from Spotlight (kind of like Quicksilver back in the day, or Raycast more currently). Your custom made Shortcuts can also be triggered. It’s also context aware, so you can do things for the app/document you’re in. Spotlight also integrates clipboard history. The Terminal gets Powerline glyphs, new themes…
What new fonts?
This is the description under it in the PDF.
> With 24-bit color support, your commands now have over 16 million color choices.
I’m not sure if there are new fonts, expanded color support for the fonts, or both.
Re: macOS Tahoe
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It’s just change. People complain every time the UI changes on anything. People will get used to it. Apple will refine some things over time. It will be ok.
I usually agree (and enjoy reading angry threads years later), but wasting screen real estate and getting measurably worse in terms of accessibility is simply not a good design decision.
I guess you can bookmark this thread and set a reminder to revisit it in 5 years and see how it went.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#828Earlier quoted context omitted.
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"
Thanks! I'll give that a shot
Re: macOS Tahoe
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Is there an equivalent to macOS' Ctrl-scroll to zoom the screen yet? It's little accessibility features like that keep me coming back to macOS everytime I switch to Linux.
try this, works great https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mouse-pinch-to-zoom... (I already used it on MacBook, but also on Omarchy now)
Thanks for the suggestion but that's just for Chrome/Chromium isn't it?
It's a nice start but really I'm looking for something that works for the entire screen desktop. I did have a plugin for Gnome that sort of worked (Meta+scroll) but it's very clunky compared to the macOS equivalent.
Re: macOS Tahoe
#830Every new version of MacOS exhibits four phenomena: 1. Old bugs are not fixed. 2. New bugs are introduced, and I have to spend hours online figuring out workarounds. 3. Old features I depended on are removed, and I have to spend hours online figuring out how to replace them. 4. New features I don't need are added and they get in my way, and I have to spend hours online figuring out how to disable them. My workflow pr…
> Every new version of MacOS exhibits four phenomena:
This is specific to almost every new software.
As jwz said "But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again. "