Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

[turbineseaplane]

Apple needs big changes at the top. Apple needs people who are hungry and motivated and extremely passionate themselves about Apple products and use them every day. They need a new jobs and have to stop being afraid to upset any group. Be bold. Believe in something and go for it. Apple used to be about bring products that helped change people s lives for the better using tech. They need to focus on their old core mission.

The really sad part is how many are cheerleading financial results, as the actual core values and competencies that built the reputation get eroded away entirely in the process of fully financially "optimizing" what the company was and now is.

Apple is getting fully "Cooked" by Tim

 

[Sowelu]

I even enjoyed the very early MS Office for Mac icons.

This shows how much they've all been cut down to bleh / boring 🥱

It's so dull to have everything be "en-squircled"

Those 2001 Office icons are bringing me back to the very exciting and brand new OS X days! What an era. I still have a huge, beautiful (and fun) Mac icon collection that I refuse to let go of, along with all those quirky fun apps that no longer run. Don't even get me started on the fall of AfterDark Screensavers, I had them all.

I used those 2011 Office icons (my favorites) for as long as I could. After every update I'd change them (and many others) back again, until they started to stand out among all the other apps as changing all dock icons became a chore since updates are so frequent these days.

The irony of living in an age where Macs have the best CPUs, displays and so on, yet the industry went back to boring, lazy graphics, icons and GUIs, even if they are higher resolution, as if we're running Trident or ATI Rage graphics cards from 1995.

Some may suggest that nostalgia for this era and style is why we don't like Tahoe, but what we are really lamenting is the end of an era when icons and interfaces were polished works of art, so we're not living in the past, we're annoyed that we have amazing technology that could have handled the natural evolution of beautiful GUIs, yet somehow we reverted.

 

[Technerd108]

Those 2001 Office icons are bringing me back to the very exciting and brand new OS X days! What an era. I still have a huge, beautiful (and fun) Mac icon collection that I refuse to let go of, along with all those quirky fun apps that no longer run. Don't even get me started on the fall of AfterDark Screensavers, I had them all.

I used those 2011 Office icons (my favorites) for as long as I could. After every update I'd change them (and many others) back again, until they started to stand out among all the other apps as changing all dock icons became a chore since updates are so frequent these days.

The irony of living in an age where Macs have the best CPUs, displays and so on, yet the industry went back to boring, lazy graphics, icons and GUIs, even if they are higher resolution, as if we're running Trident or ATI Rage graphics cards from 1995.

Some may suggest that nostalgia for this era and style is why we don't like Tahoe, but what we are really lamenting is the end of an era when icons and interfaces were polished works of art, so we're not living in the past, we're annoyed that we have amazing technology that could have handled the natural evolution of beautiful GUIs, yet somehow we reverted.

Perfectly said.

Last paragraph nails it!

I completely agree.

 

[CasualFanboy]

Of course they are going to remove it.

And you know there's some insecure, bitter employees at apple, so filled with spite, that they spend all day trying to identify things like this.

 

[CasualFanboy]

The really sad part is how many are cheerleading financial results, as the actual core values and competencies that built the reputation get eroded away entirely in the process of fully financially "optimizing" what the company was and now is.

Apple is getting fully "Cooked" by Tim

These practices will catch up to them before too long. It may be ok in the short term to rush poorly made products out the door and skimp on quality costs here and there, but then trust and goodwill are lost.

 

[navaira]

Speaking of Tahoe bugs and SSDs.... Ever since upgrading to 26, my external Thunderbolt NVMe SSDs keep randomly disconnecting. Great stuff.

Waaaait, that’s Tahoe? I thought my (HDD) drive was failing*… it has never disappeared before. I had to restart for it to appear again, Disk Utility didn’t see it.

*it might well be failing :/

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Waaaait, that’s Tahoe? I thought my (HDD) drive was failing*… it has never disappeared before. I had to restart for it to appear again, Disk Utility didn’t see it.

Yep, that's Tahoe. Apparently, they made energy management more "efficient" (read: more aggressive), leading to disks getting ejected. From what I read...

My SSDs are fairly new, and it happens to two different SSDs, so I can pretty much rule out any hardware issues. And the fact that this never happened before and only started exactly after updating to Tahoe is probably no coincidence.

 

[tkermit]

Either I'm finally getting used to it or Apple has managed to tweak Liquid Glass in the latest Tahoe betas to the point where it works a lot better for me now...

 

[unsui_grep]

Yep, that's Tahoe. Apparently, they made energy management more "efficient" (read: more aggressive), leading to disks getting ejected. From what I read...

My SSDs are fairly new, and it happens to two different SSDs, so I can pretty much rule out any hardware issues. And the fact that this never happened before and only started exactly after updating to Tahoe is probably no coincidence.

I've been having the same problem–consistently, but it's been happening to me since Sequoia. I think I read somewhere that this was a known issue, but I could be wrong. I figured I'd come to Tahoe's defense for once.

 

[unsui_grep]

Either I'm finally getting used to it or Apple has managed to tweak Liquid Glass in the latest Tahoe betas to the point where it works a lot better for me now...

I haven't had the time or courage to download the new betas, what changes are sitting better with you?

 

[tkermit]

I haven't had the time or courage to download the new betas, what changes are sitting better with you?

I feel like they changed certain parameters such as the amount of blur, which improves legibility and makes everything appear less busy. Looks more frosted now. Some odd behaviors have been fixed, too, and it performs much better.