Not gonna lie, it’s still ugly to me. But same story with every macOS - give it a few weeks and you forget about it and just use your Mac
macOS Tahoe
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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.
If you haven’t tried openSUSE Aeon, I’ve been really impressed with it.
BTRFS I find is a more elegant solution than OSTree for this use case, and it’s got a very minimal and polished happy path.
Silverblue covers way more use cases (not least multiple users), but the setup and secure boot encryption setup is very slick and macOS-esque philosophically.
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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…
Sometimes I wonder how the Linux distro landscape would have looked if there hadn't been a new distro for a new use case or design choice or disagreement among lead devs? Could we have allocated the resources better at battling with Wi-Fi not working, USB creaking on the turns? Or those would have stayed the way they are, because these mostly come or should come from the OEMs/vendors? Would this be better for them if…
That was my hope, between Slackware 2.0 and around 2010, eventually I got Windows 7 and a laptop that supported virtualization, installed VMWare Workstation, and that was it, my zealot years were gone.
Still got an ASUS netbook though, a market killed by tablets and chrombooks.
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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.
> F4 on my Macbook Pro brings up Spotlight, not Launchpad.
Unless there's some weird setting, that's only in Tahoe. At the very least, it's only enforced in Tahoe; I was using F4 to bring up Launchpad in Sequoia, as I have in every version of MacOS for a long time.
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#975Isn't this what KDE 4 did like 15 years ago?
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#976The reason Liquid Glass on macOS specifically is getting so much blowback is that it isn't just updating the translucency effect with the new glass refraction effect - they've also increased the border radius of most windows, increased paddings in toolbars, sidebars, etc. and overall made the UI much less information-dense, which is wild for a desktop OS. If they had just changed the translucency effect, I think this…
The huge amount of padding is one of the reasons I hate the official reddit app compared to redreader. There's just such a huge amount of padding between every UI element that it means half the screen is just empty space
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#977MacOS updates are probably the best I know of for any unix-like OS.
It was one of the main benefits of switching from ubuntu. I just did the update this morning and I'm carrying on with my work like nothing happened. I'm a software developer and run everything from docker to ios/android simulators and vscode. All seems fine.
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#978Whew. Those screenshots: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-a... As a KDE Plasma dev, I always counted on us getting better, but I didn't expect the competition to get so much worse. We'd be flamed to high and heaven for shipping broken notification popups and rendering glitches like that in a prod release. What happened internally to cause this, I wonder?
Have you seen Windows 11? It's like they copied random ideas out of KDE 4 and bolted them on top of Windows, badly.
My theory is that big companies like to compress salaries. To compress salaries, you hire young and fire old, which means losing historical knowledge.
The other theory is that people who grew up with Kde-look.org are now running the asylum, without ever going through the sort of formal training that the previous generations of UI designers had to experience.
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#979Writing this comment from my FrameWork laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 96GB Ram, 4TB Storage, that I got for $4k. Running Fedora with KDE. How much would I need to pay Apple to get a laptop with this much ram? The day I got my only Apple device, an ipad, only to know they will kill my browser download as soon as I switch to a different app, it became my last. I don't want to pay a company only to be subject to the…
You could buy a Lenovo with the same spec for a good grand less. And people buy Macbooks so that they don't have to deal with the abomination that is called Linux/GNU and GPL, not for the hardware.
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#980Am I one of few people that doesn't have a big negative sentiment torwards Tahoe? I suspect that if it is this bad they will start making a point release to address liquid glass. I do agree though that there is a jarring look to the slabs of glass on glass for the layouts in the system. Another thing that sort of weirds me out is that the system preferences has the icons being loaded after the window is present and I…
It's not bad, I barely noticed the change. Most of the comments are just trolls by people who don't own a Macbook, as you can see from their posts suggesting their Framework laptops and Arch linux.