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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by thewebguyd »

rcarmo wrote: post #811
giancarlostoro wrote: post #751

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> 1. Old bugs are not fixed. If Apple would open source some of its OS apps, this would probably be a non-issue, I could see people putting in bugfix PRs the second Apple chooses to open source their core apps. I don't see them doing this any time soon sadly, but it would make macOS much more stable, and probably secure. The more I have thought about my views on Open Source vs Commercial software, I strongly feel tha…

Mail.app alone had enough issues and missing features to sustain an entire cottage industry, and would be one app I would certainly like to contribute to. But it shall never come to pass.

Mail.app makes me sad, because it is neglected. Outside of Thunderbird, it's sort of this last bastion of desktop-first mail clients when everything else, even "New" Outlook, has become a web app or some electron monster.

I use mail.app daily across phone, iPad and Mac - it's "fine" but I'd really love it to get some investment.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by thewebguyd »

kminehart wrote: post #258
rvrb wrote: post #227

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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.

> Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however. It doesn't exist at the moment. :\ I would pay 2x the price of a macbook for a linux laptop with the same hardware quality. The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane. It's so good that it's really hard to justify using anything else right now.

Same. Just give me my M4 Macbook Pro, but Linux compatible.

I'm sure people will chime in and say framework, or other Linux-first vendors but they still make too many compromises.

Speakers suck, or the display sucks, or the microphones suck, or they get too hot, or they are too loud, or battery life sucks in comparison, or the chassis feels like cheap plastic and cracks and breaks easily.

There is no other laptop on the market that beats the Apple silicon macbooks right now.

I continue to tolerate macOS just for this hardware, and the rest of the OEMs seem to have zero intention at all to trying to catch up.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by ajross »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #751
dreamcompiler wrote: post #707

Every 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…

> 1. Old bugs are not fixed. If Apple would open source some of its OS apps, this would probably be a non-issue, I could see people putting in bugfix PRs the second Apple chooses to open source their core apps. I don't see them doing this any time soon sadly, but it would make macOS much more stable, and probably secure. The more I have thought about my views on Open Source vs Commercial software, I strongly feel tha…

> I strongly feel that infrastructure code (an OS) should be more open source, I dont see Microsoft or Apple open sourcing any time soon

If only there were another platform vendor with different thoughts about open source infrastructure code. Alas.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by AlexandrB »

_7acn wrote: post #291

The key question - now that Liquid Glass is a reality, will Tim Cook lose his job like Ballmer did over Windows 8 metro design?

I thought it was Sinofsky who lost his job over Windows 8.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by AlexandrB »

jedberg wrote: post #98
EarthLaunch wrote: post #53

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I take it as a sign of typical increasing corporate dysfunction. Obvious problems, some even easy and uncontroversial, don't get fixed. Why? The people who can fix them are not in control. The org must be very top-down. But Steve Jobs had a top down style, so what's the difference? Its: Using and caring about the product. It's top down direction with the people at the top not using/caring about the product. Presumabl…

Also if you had a majorly obvious bug, you could email steve@apple.com, which he would forward to a VP, who would be fired if it wasn't fixed ASAP. Knew a guy who lost his job that way, so it's not just a myth. Steve really was like that. The wrath of Steve was a real thing that people feared.

On the one hand, this kind of thing seems like a mercurial, dictatorial management style. On the other hand, you do need a way to cut through the levels of hierarchy in a large company so that fixes like this don't always get bogged down in process and stakeholder meetings.

It seemed to work for Apple/Steve Jobs, but I'm not convinced it would work for everyone.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by AlexandrB »

throwaway290 wrote: post #682
nntwozz wrote: post #282

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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?

I'm guessing something to do with low-DPI external displays?

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by zamalek »

mikae1 wrote: post #859
eloisius wrote: post #771

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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…

> The initial investment into getting a usable Arch desktop was horrible. It is my conviction that very few should go down the Arch route. If you want to sysadmin Linux or learn how to do so, fine. But if you want to do something else with your computer I'd strongly recommend looking into one of the https://universal-blue.org images (I use https://getaurora.dev btw). These are based on atomic Fedora and my experience…

I attempted to make a ostree+Nix distro a while back, but ublue didn't exist at the time and the build documentation was a masterclass in obfuscation.

Immutable is definitely the future.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

AlexandrB wrote: post #898
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #52

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The flip side of this is that every attempt at advancing the Windows UI framework story beyond win32/MFC and WPF has failed and the platform itself is steeped neck deep in technical debt.

You can't blame this all on backwards compatibility. Microsoft can't just stick to one successor technology and keeps obsoleting every attempt after a few years. With that approach, of course no one is going to move over.

That’s one issue, but another is that they don’t make into successors full replacements. They’ve stuck to WinAppSDK aka WinUI for a while now, but it’s missing such basic elements as a datagrid/tableview which makes it difficult to take seriously as a desktop UI framework.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by HenriTEL »

Among all macOS apps and their weird choices, finder is the most enigmatic one. The Recents tab sorts by Last Opened by default where I would expect to see the rencently added files first. Sorting by another column will not add said column to the view. Files from the Downloads folders seems to be excluded from Recents, or they take hours to be taken into account.

It does not show the current path, no button to go up the file tree, the only text input is behind this search button and it does not understand relative or full paths.

Well, thank god I have a terminal and an IDE at hand.

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