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Features you wish macOS had?
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Not from my experience when I've looked for controllers - particularly HOTAS/flight sticks and they often lacked native Mac support. I require a freeware driver for my wired Xbox 360 controller to work even on Catalina. This is the controller for a console that sold over 85 million units during its production run.
Yes, however the caveat being that haptic feedback and the adaptive triggers are not supported for the PS5 controller.
Ummm. Click the green button? Works for me. If you do a “mouse over” you get a menu, but just click. Problem solved - you are welcome
No it isn't. I guess it's just down to how you function then. I'd rather have a keyboard shortcut as the majority of the time my hands are on the keyboard. I'm a keyboard shortcut type. Some people are mouse users and do everything with the mouse including menu commands (not necessarily saying that's you).
Until Apple gives you that though…Funter.
Blu-ray? That is still a thing. I grabbed an app years ago to use Blu-ray, but that is way retro now.
Game controllers- but everyone says you can’t game on a Mac. Must be a typo. And lordyB have to check if something works when compatibility is listed right on the box, scandalous
Android and a Mac, now there is a minority. Have you tried those android virtualizations that let you run android software? Personally, the reason to go apple is the integration so why?
QT works for me - don’t have legacy stuff hanging around. It’s pretty easy to transcode and using handbrake with video toolbox. Really quick. I will admit that I would like to see enhancements like iMovie added to QT. THATS WHY I ALSO HAVE INFUSE, admittedly I don’t use it much, but it is great even intelligently upscales
Problem solved?
Try doing that with additional attached displays. Every screen goes black while you get full screen on the one you simply clicked that on. How is that a solution?
@Doq wants to be able to maximize a window without holding down the OPTN key, not enter full screen.
That’s why I use the cloud. All my files available anywhere and on any device. No drivers requiredFor me: mere consistency. macOS used to use the 1 "kilo"byte == 1024 bytes way but Snow Leopard switched to the "correct" way. I often switch between older and newer versions of macOS (this is the PowerPC subforum, after all) and having Finder report the exact same file with two different sizes is annoying.
The actual problem is, of course, that the "incorrect" way was allowed to see widespread use in the first place, leading to some people being shocked that their spanking new one-terabyte drive showed up as being only 931 "giga"byte in the OS.
...which is why I keep the device I store my audiobooks on on Android 4.1.2: it exposes the microSD card as a standard mass storage device so I don't need any driver... with the obvious sideeffect of anything running on the phone needing to deal with the card being yanked from its grasp while the USB connection is alive.
I know about the keyboard shortcut. Make a menu bar item anyways. I don't always want to move my hands off the mouse to view a hidden file.
I guess I just operate differently. I usually have my left thumb resting on the CMD key with my right hand on the mouse. Much easier for me to simply move my right hand over and back. But everyone is different. I made a link to Funter above if you didn't see it.
The only thing I want from Apple is to bring back tasty and smooth UI. The scalling is seriously wrong. I can use a decade old Windows device and it runs like butter no matter what monitor I connect to it. You can't even have a fluid UI with Apple's latest computers if you don't use ideal combination of their devices and monitors. It's embarrassing.
Better support for external drives. First, can the OS dynamically pre-eject external disks until they're needed by some process? Maybe if they haven't been read from or written to after some period of time? I might be dreaming here.
Also, when I do a Spotlight search, you don't need to wait for my external hard drives to fully spin up before you start giving me results, especially if that external drive is just a Time Machine backup.
Also, when I do a Spotlight search, you don't need to wait for my external hard drives to fully spin up before you start giving me results, especially if that external drive is just a Time Machine backup.
1. An open and documented PCI-Passthough API that includes support for Thunderbolt 3/4 and PCI/PCIE chassis.
2. Metal based Crypto miners.
3. An easy and reliable way to pin a task to a specific CPU core.
2. Metal based Crypto miners.
3. An easy and reliable way to pin a task to a specific CPU core.
I don't mean to sound pedantic, but couldn't you just exclude your external drives from Spotlight?
Unless you're wanting them to be indexed?
I thought of another one. This one is huge. Let me command-tab between windows of the same app. If I have four Chrome windows open, or two Word windows, put them in the command-tab row. I know you can switch to command-~ for same-app windows, but that's an extra cognitive hop. This is something Windows has had over macOS since the dawn of time.
May as well make it optional for people who like the current arrangement.
May as well make it optional for people who like the current arrangement.
Sure, I suppose I could mind my Spotlight settings to ensure any new external drives are excluded, but we're talking about new feature requests here aren't we?
Yes, I just presumed that it's new feature requests for things that either aren't there (in some form) already or can't be changed because they are baked in.
Thank you! This was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. I want WindowShade back! Please!
Have you tried? My Saitek X52 Pro is better supported under macOS in X-Plane, War Thunder, and Elite Dangerous (while the Mac version still existed) than under Windows: while there without specific drivers only the most basic functions and a few buttons work, every single control element works under macOS without any additional software. The only thing not properly supported under macOS is the LC display.
…and one which hasn't been produced or sold for half a decade. Pretty much every Xbox controller released after that, save for the first version of the Xbox One controller with its weird propietary wireless protocol, work without any additional driver under macOS.
And even while it still was relevant, was the Xbox 360 controller pretty much the only controller requiring specific drivers. The vast majority of other gamepads from other manufacturers did not.
You can still use it in every game using macOS's built-in controller support. Under Windows, there is only an extremely small number of games which specifically have been written to support the DualSense 5.
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The last one is not going to happen but would be nice. Not even sure how many PowerPC applications are still being maintained. Haven't we moved on from them?So, in all the years I've been using Mac OS X/OS X/macOS, there are a couple of features I'd like to see (re-)added which, annoyingly, have not (yet) been implemented or have been removed but are available on other operating systems *cough, cough*. These are, in no particular order:
- Rename macOS back to Mac OS X. (OK, OK, this feature isn't available on other OSes but you get the point.)
- Make all "hard-coded" font types and sizes adjustable. Menu bar, I'm looking at you!
- Support themes to allow giving the UI a comprehensive new look.
- Combine several monitors into one big virtual monitor à la AMD Eyefinity for e.g. the IBM Bertha and other tiled displays.
- Add full support for MST so DisplayPort/USB-C monitors can be daisy-chained.
- Handle non-integer UI scaling in a more flexible way.
- Add UI scaling beyond 200% for >220ppi monitors.
- Provide a powerful package manager for handling (un-)installation of applications.
- Provide a straightforward way to create a bootable macOS USB installer without having to resort to
createinstallmediaon another Mac.- Allow writing to NTFS partitions.
- Return to the 1 "KB" == 1024 bytes etc. convention.
- Improve Disk Utility's UI.
- Readd support for 32-bit applications.
- Enable Rosetta 2 to run PowerPC applications on ARM Macs.
So, what are the features you would like to see (re-)added?
Uhm…this entire thread is posted in the PowerPC Mac section of MacRumors.
Just sayin'.
Yeah, but why? The thread is a wishlist for macOS on Arm CPUs, two hardware switches past PPC.
I never said or implied it was just for ARM.
Honest answer: I'm interested in hearing what established members of the PowerPC subforum, who might have been using macOS, i.e. Mac OS X, for a very long time, would like to see in it. However, everyone is of course welcome to contribute.
That one was tongue-in-cheek.
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Fair enough.Honest answer: I'm interested in hearing what established members of the PowerPC subforum, who might have been using macOS, i.e. Mac OS X, for a very long time, would like to see in it. However, everyone is of course welcome to contribute.
It’s never going to be Mac OS X again as we’re at macOS XII now… the rest I can agree on.
I’d personally add
- better continuity between iOS and macOS apps (same design and features for both)
- automations like on iOS devices (time/location/Wi-Fi/… based automations)
- reworked launcher
- better widgets
- individual scaling/size for each app and window within an app (kinda like individual text size in iOS)
- a PiP player like in iOS (with skip forward / backward buttons)
- desktop(s) arrangement options somewhat like workspace options in FCPX
- a proper wallpaper editor
- nativ and overhauled Apple Music app
- multi window support for apps like FCPX, Settings, GarageBand, Music and others, all basically
- more than 3 fingerprints with Touch ID enabled devices…
- a freaking Snow release focused on stability and bug fixes!!!!!!!!!
I’d personally add
- better continuity between iOS and macOS apps (same design and features for both)
- automations like on iOS devices (time/location/Wi-Fi/… based automations)
- reworked launcher
- better widgets
- individual scaling/size for each app and window within an app (kinda like individual text size in iOS)
- a PiP player like in iOS (with skip forward / backward buttons)
- desktop(s) arrangement options somewhat like workspace options in FCPX
- a proper wallpaper editor
- nativ and overhauled Apple Music app
- multi window support for apps like FCPX, Settings, GarageBand, Music and others, all basically
- more than 3 fingerprints with Touch ID enabled devices…
- a freaking Snow release focused on stability and bug fixes!!!!!!!!!