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CMD + SPC for spotlight and then CMD + 1 gets you to the full set of apps.
Wow! I didn't know that cmd + number switches context of spotlight. Amazing tip, thank you!
Take a look at being able to search an app from Spotlight: CMD + SPC => "Mail" => TAB => then I'm searching all my emails
I decided to install this and the updated iOS today to see how I felt about it. My very initial impressions on MacOS: (1) I like the look of Safari better and the Mail app compared to the prior designs. They both look really nice to me and the Mail app especially looks like a huge improvement in terms of design unification with some of the features like summaries and unsubscribe options that looked bolted on in the p…
I weirdly like the clear apps on iOS. Less visually stimulating.
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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.
I use a Magic Trackpad day to day, but back when I worked in an office I would occasionally use a Magic Mouse, and I liked the gestures. (Hated the charging port location, of course.)
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I agree with a lot of what you said but the app launcher was dumb. It was just the iPhone’s Home Screen ported to Mac. Spotlight is way faster than that when you’re at a keyboard. I barely even use the dock, just command space and type in the first few letters of the program I want. Clicking is for people with too much time on their hands.
It is for finding a program or quickly browsing what apps are installed when I don’t know the name. I find it useful in an unfamiliar machine. Yes, like most people, I launch apps primarily with Spotlight.
I am the only one to think that these days, GNOME and KDE are more usable than anything made by Microsoft or Apple? I think part of the reason is that devs working on these projects don't have an incentive to make arbitrary changes like people who need to justify their paychecks.
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It's sad that the best Linux laptop right now arguably is a M4 Mac virtualizing Linux.
this is a psychotic question but have you actually tried doing that? like using a macbook as a vessel for running linux under parallels as a primary use?
I've been running it since the RC and am currently in the process of uninstalling it. The new UI is so incredibly ugly I honestly cannot understand how they thought it was acceptable to even released as a beta let alone an RC and now release. There's SO much padding and wasted screen real estate, disjointed looking floating inner panels, window corners that are so rounded you see gaps in full screen apps, inconsisten…
This is quite a departure from the company the pioneered UX obsession and attention to the smallest detail. What's happening here?
Apple's software design and quality has been going downhill for a while - but their hardware is fantastic and keeps getting better. I've been putting up with the software because the hardware is worth it, and I guess that's going to be put to the test.
For all the griping, it matters little in the face of money. People won't be replaced until sales suffer.
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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 developer of ghostty had this exact same issue with his terminal. Ironically apple's iCloud password autofill extension on firefox also practically halves my firefox performance. Seems like they haven't figured out autofill yet. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/b58a761aba75fa...
defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false
I've been using this for a couple days now. FWIW
- With GNU Emacs, this seems to work just fine. Hurray!
- With Emacs-Mac port, which many people like (including myself): I haven't had any luck so far. In particular, if you (like me) like to compile your own from source, doing this on macOS 26 (with XC26 etc) will compile but the resulting binary will very quickly (in seconds to minutes) become unresponsive. If you use a precompiled binary (including Homebrew cask) compiled on an earlier macOS version, that may be fine (provided you set NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled as above).
Somehow the combination of the compiler & library (runtime & statically linked) is breaking Emacs-Mac for me. I haven't quite figured out why, and probably don't have time right now to get to the bottom of this...