Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

macOS Tahoe

apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

941–950 of 1001 posts

Re: macOS Tahoe

#941

Post by ProfessorLayton »

al_borland wrote: post #676
mitemte wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Agreed! Accidentally dismissing the old menu and needing to scroll again drove me up the wall. My phone has over 3 million pixels and I did not gain anything by having a small, horizontally scrolling menu specific to highlighted text.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#942

Post by ethbr1 »

OJFord wrote: post #891
ethbr1 wrote: post #806

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of the two, there's a lot clearer line to Apple open sourcing some of its core desktop apps, given market share (~16%?) and lack of internal resource prioritization (iOSiOSiOS). The best time to do so would have been ~2010, after iTunes revenue provided a clear monetizable carve-out. The second best time would be today. The number of people saying 'I love the hardware you sell me, but am switching platforms because y…

Or if they would just embrace Asahi! Have a team work full-time on parity, have asahi-linux feature complete on Mac launch day; mainlined soon thereafter. We can dream.

I mean, there's more of a rationale there. If they cede complete control of the OS, then that starts to eat into their services business.

And it's hard to pick a middle ground once they open up the OS.

At least with apps, there's a clear dividing line between this app and that app.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#943

Post by Reubend »

junaru wrote: post #574
Reubend wrote: post #503

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are now plenty of ARM laptops with Windows (and Linux) support and very similar, if not better, battery life.

Like?

The Surface Laptop 7 gets just under 23 hours of battery life for low intensity usage like video playback. https://mashable.com/review/microsoft-surface-laptop-7

Outside of benchmarks, it's obviously getting much lower than that, but it's pretty much on par with MacBooks.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#944

Post by goosedragons »

massysett wrote: post #807
eloisius wrote: post #771

Earlier 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.

You can still use the old Sysv init on modern distros if you want. KDE3 is sorta still around (TrinityDE), ditto Gnome 2 (MATE).

Re: macOS Tahoe

#945

Post by saratogacx »

pkulak wrote: post #458
thehamkercat wrote: post #420

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then they'll go back to rectangles and call it "innovation", "giving users more space"

Welcome to fashion cycles. Windows 7 has come back around.

7 used rather small border radius and on was done through the added window border/non client area, not chopped out of the window like today's UX. It was also trivially easy to adjust that to make it as tight as XP's 2-3px so if you really didn't care for it they would go away. For buttons in dialogs the radius was the same size as the embossed effect in earlier windows version.

Vista and 7 rounded things out but they sacrificed very little usable area in the application and could be adjusted to taste. Both Apple and MSFT took the stance that this was too much user control.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#946

Post by stevage »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #327
stevage wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I always considered the butterfly keyboard[1] the point at which Apple's design system jumped the shark as it focused on it's own aesthetics vs. building quality and reliable products. This statement describes pretty much every mouse Apple ever made, from the circular ones to the horrendous magic mouse with charging port underneath.

Ooh, the mouse myth! Love it when this one gets dragged out. Turns out it’s not really a problem - the battery life is measured in months, you’ll get several hours from plugging it in for thirty seconds, and days if you plug it in for a few minutes while getting coffee. People love to hate it, but it’s never been a real problem. The ergonomics are bad. The charging isn’t.

>The ergonomics are bad. The charging isn’t.

Yes, it was the ergonomics I particularly despised. The charging was salt in the wound.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#947

Post by stevage »

AlexandrB wrote: post #696
rogerrogerr wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ooh, the mouse myth! Love it when this one gets dragged out. Turns out it’s not really a problem - the battery life is measured in months, you’ll get several hours from plugging it in for thirty seconds, and days if you plug it in for a few minutes while getting coffee. People love to hate it, but it’s never been a real problem. The ergonomics are bad. The charging isn’t.

So the ergonomics are bad and the charging port is in inconvenient location. What's good about it? Anything? Most Logitech mice go for months on a set of batteries too.

>Most Logitech mice go for months on a set of batteries too.

Definitely not true for the two MX Masters I have owned - they need charging every couple of weeks. But also I often just leave them plugged in, because, get this, they put the charging port at the back.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#948

Post by stevage »

badc0ffee wrote: post #920
Lord-Jobo wrote: post #818

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I own and like apple products, android, Google, Microsoft, razr, keychron, Logitech. The apple mouse is one of the worst mainstream products I've ever had to use. It has no advantages that can even begin to scratch away at the terrible TERRIBLE ergonomics alone.

The main thing it has going for it is the whole surface of the mouse is touch sensitive, so you can do 2/3 finger gestures on it.

I hated that feature SOOO much. It was so difficult to grab the mouse without accidentally doing some additional gesture. I'm really glad that feature never caught on.

Re: macOS Tahoe

#949

Post by pabs3 »

heavyset_go wrote: post #673
pabs3 wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not too much support out there, but at least some important things do:

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=x-kde-passwordManager...

Re: macOS Tahoe

#950

Post by eloisius »

OJFord wrote: post #888
eloisius wrote: post #857

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I didn't mean to write a "Linux is better" polemic, just that building my own Linux desktop works better for me. I also haven't used Gnome since ~2009 except briefly to discover that Gnome 3 was trash. Unity was a travesty and I also hated it when Ubuntu force fed me that. You're right. Locking yourself into a distro, especially the more user-friendly ones, can get you into just as much of a dictatorship as mac…

I'd switch if I were you - well, I did, after holding out for what I thought was a long time. A lot of minor nuisances I hadn't gotten around to investigating with X just disappeared, I think you'd find that by comparison you were/are actually nearer 'not working' than you realise, my sway experience has been much smoother.

Last sticking point when I tried was fractional scaling
Post reply on HN