I try to stay away from the latest major OS X at release time from a few years now; let others be the beta-testers as somehow every major update seems to break something unexpected to users and Apple themselves.
Really wondering how KDE shaped up the last decade; was quite good 10 years ago so must be brilliant by now..right…right?
Generously assuming that programmers are somehow higher beings not driven by ego and not over-focusing on shortsighted process that was obsolete 3 months after it was introduced (and that was 15 years ago).
Sadly most of us know this is not true. We are very, very far from higher beings. Add to that the open-source nature of such high-profile projects like KDE and you get a combination of (1) “it’s not a paid job, I’ll do what I want, frak you” and (2) “this has always worked good for us, thanks for your opinion but we are not changing our ways”.
gg ez wp.
I’ll pull the trigger on Tahoe soon though. I am between jobs currently and it’s a good time to iron out any kinks.
Why is Apple now failing at elementary stuff though, I don’t quite get. I mean I’ve seen organisational and managerial / executive failures many times in my career but I can’t quite reconcile those with the mountain of bugs and UX issues that Tahoe introduced.
Simply: one has to come up with new ideas. But once you reached the very top, new ideas will simply be less.
Apple is trying really hard at being special and unique again; but the competition closed the gap. Being less about Interaction Design and more about Visual Design doesn’t help either.
See how Spotify keeps changing the UX of their music player; sometimes going back and forth with elements displayed. They seem to have reached the top and keep coming back to that element positioning; but also keep trying to bring ‘new’ stuff to keep the impression of ‘moving forward’ with ‘updates’ just to revert them again.
Can we blame them? I doubt it. After all people want to showoff they have the newest gadget (so design switches from curved to edgy and back), and you wont make headlines with spec bumps only (while that could be the best thing when you reached the top)
See how some streamers find a new ‘best language’ every time and how the creators of these languages spread these streamers tweets like wildfire.
Result: streamers reach fans of Go, Rust, Haskell and Elixir. Just to repeat the sequence all over.
Doing something different generates attention. Doing the same thing does not.
I’ve been bitten in the past myself, but this video is making me want to upgrade:
My Spotlight/search has been broken ever since I switched to Apple silicon, so I’m hoping Tahoe will fix it.
Same I think, see above^^ (That vid is worth a watch)
To be fair there are some nice editions in Taheo (at least as per that vid)
Heyyy yesterday I did run the command to disable it, clear cache and enable it again. Today I could find my installed apps. Didn’t know it was a common issue.
They still pull some great innovations; but the shittification can be seen in parallel.
Doing the new glass thing is not because of great UX. Cool tech, looks nice (sometimes). It’s unique feature is best seen when using a magnified view. But IxD/UX wise it’s horrible and in a few years they will get rid of it; then solid is once again ‘new’ kid on the block.
How long before circular icons? Place your bets!
There is one benefit to the new design that I have not seen mentioned anywhere - the additional padding around buttons is better for touch screens, so maybe they are working on a touch screen Mac…
macOS Tahoe is good at least for me, new design look clean & easy to get right actions than old version. Liquid glass design made me remember about material design of Google but better. I don’t see any break for my work flow (almost is coding).
Upgrade my work laptop to Tahoe fixed this issue in particular. I have not seen other issues after upgrade either.
On your KDE interest, I’ve been using Fedora with KDE for quite a few years now and I’m very happy with it. You’ll certainly get performance boost as well, as these Apple Silicon chips for whatever reason are very slow.