Anyone gone back to Catalina from Big Sur and remembered what it feels like to have an OS designed first and foremost for a cursor, and not something failing to be a goldilocks of mouse and touch.
- Don't have to move my cursor around nearly as much - with trackpads small cursor movements are far easier since you can 'roll' your finger precisely rather than sliding your finger innacurately across the surface. (I.e. procedure is; move finger innacurately to a general area of the UI, then roll finger precisely to select the element.) Easy procedure with system menus in Catalina; not so much in Big Sur where everything is spaced out like a kindergarden.
- Notification centre is actually useful with notifications in a cohesive separate column. Widgets are information dense - and omg I forgot how indispensible the Catalina calendar widget was.
- Far higher information density everywhere. The general Catalina UI design looks archaic now, but is infinitely more functional. Modernising =/= more spacing between everything - just look at (most of) Windows. Don't have to move my eyeballs around nearly as much either.
-Why did they space everything out more and simultaneously make system font size significantly smaller? Looks so very pretty, yet now everything is not only further apart but more difficult to read. Smart
- Big system menus actually fit on the screen - especially in something like Davinci Resolve, you literally have to scroll half the drop down menus in Big Sur. Wtf?!
After thinking I'd gotten used to Big Sur over the last few months, I thought that my initial reservations with Big Sur were perhaps unfounded. Nope. Big sur is truly ****. For some asinine reason I forgive all the bugs since this was a big release for them (and is nothing new for MacOS releases...); the UI spacing for touchscreen crap, however, stems from what I am confident is a flawed 'grandplan' for macOS, and is inexcusable IMO.
- Don't have to move my cursor around nearly as much - with trackpads small cursor movements are far easier since you can 'roll' your finger precisely rather than sliding your finger innacurately across the surface. (I.e. procedure is; move finger innacurately to a general area of the UI, then roll finger precisely to select the element.) Easy procedure with system menus in Catalina; not so much in Big Sur where everything is spaced out like a kindergarden.
- Notification centre is actually useful with notifications in a cohesive separate column. Widgets are information dense - and omg I forgot how indispensible the Catalina calendar widget was.
- Far higher information density everywhere. The general Catalina UI design looks archaic now, but is infinitely more functional. Modernising =/= more spacing between everything - just look at (most of) Windows. Don't have to move my eyeballs around nearly as much either.
-Why did they space everything out more and simultaneously make system font size significantly smaller? Looks so very pretty, yet now everything is not only further apart but more difficult to read. Smart
- Big system menus actually fit on the screen - especially in something like Davinci Resolve, you literally have to scroll half the drop down menus in Big Sur. Wtf?!
After thinking I'd gotten used to Big Sur over the last few months, I thought that my initial reservations with Big Sur were perhaps unfounded. Nope. Big sur is truly ****. For some asinine reason I forgive all the bugs since this was a big release for them (and is nothing new for MacOS releases...); the UI spacing for touchscreen crap, however, stems from what I am confident is a flawed 'grandplan' for macOS, and is inexcusable IMO.
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