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Very useful to describe macOS to someone coming from another OS.
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Loving Liquid Glass—but macOS needs to catch up
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Very useful to describe macOS to someone coming from another OS.
Last weekend I installed TahoeBeta on my Mac. Played a few minutes with it.
I recognized the constant color change of widgets on the desktop depending on focus.
This alone drives me crazy. A permanent disturbing movement at the edge of my field of view.
Horrible! No way I will use this.
I recognized the constant color change of widgets on the desktop depending on focus.
This alone drives me crazy. A permanent disturbing movement at the edge of my field of view.
Horrible! No way I will use this.
They’ve always done that. Will be colour if on the desktop or fade to transparent if an active window is selected. You can change this to always transparent I believe.
Agreed. Now that Macs have 16GB as standard there’s going to be very few end-user / consumer Mac owners who wished that they got more RAM (although let’s hope that they chose the 512 SSD config).
Well, maybe they might have regrets if they wanted to play cyberpunk 2077 natively (although there’s GeForce now for that).
Microsoft Windows level of compatibility is also its biggest Achilles heel with so much ancient cruft in there and oodles of attack vectors.
I get why corporates love it - however I would argue that creating terrible .net apps in the 00s and still using them in 2025 is not very sensible.
And don’t get me started on windows 95 UI still being present in obscure corners of the OS with win7/8/10 UI typically revealing itself for most users.
And good luck using dark mode - hope you enjoy those flashes of gleaning white all over the place because lazy MS can’t be bothered to implement it properly.
I'm sorry, I don't understand any of this talk about macOS 26's Liquid Glass UI/UX. Because I don't see it anywhere except in the Control Center setting panel and Edit widgets panel . Only those windows appears frosted clear to me. Everything else (finder, safari, etc) is opaque, white, with large rounded buttons and controls.
Regarding the apps sidebar, I would not speak of transparency but of approximate drooling coloring according to the background image.
Should I go to the ophthalmologist?
Regarding the apps sidebar, I would not speak of transparency but of approximate drooling coloring according to the background image.
Should I go to the ophthalmologist?
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I have to use Win 11 at work, and it reminds me of that Simpsons episode where the neighbourhood ‘rebuild’ Ned Flanders’s home.
A lot of paint and paper over the same old cracks. In fact, it’s so obviously a muddled mess that I’m baffled as to how they’re going to move away from this architecture onto a genuinely modern OS.
I’m sat here right-clicking on the desktop and it brings up a ‘new’ menu with the Win 11 controls and U.I. But then if you select ‘Show more options’, it brings up another right/click menu with the original Win 10 options and U.I. What planet are these people living on?
It’s scientifically impossible for apple to mirror flip the current pointer.
Yes, photoshop has been able to do this with bitmaps since the 80s, but still.
And you can bet that control panel will still exist in some shape or form in 2100.
I’m imagining that Microsoft is waiting to come out with a new version of windows that they’ve designed from the ground up for the AI age with the cruft removed.
But then I think of their awful implementation of ChatGPT in windows and obviously if they ever did that, it’ll be awful.
Only Microsoft could have early access to the most cutting edge LLM out there and totally mess up its implementation in their products.
And anyway who am I kidding?
As Microsoft has always done, they’ll shovel LLM stuff into windows 11 for as long as they can do (see also: internet explorer integration into windows 95 & the touch layer of windows 8).
Never has a company become so highly valued by Wall Street, whose products are so shoddy.
At least they’ve been consistent from the very start in their shoddiness, so that’s a plus point.
Microsoft’s products may well be, in your view, shoddy, but by jingo, they get the job done like nothing else.
The problem is that we Apple-ites worship at the altar of “Why Yes, We Absolutely Should Let Perfect Be The Enemy Of The Good”.
That backwards compatibility? It’s because (for example) tiny SMEs employing 10 people actively WANT to keep running that .NET application from 2005 that manages how they allocate weedwhackers to weed whacking operatives, because all they care about is whacking weeds.
Apple would have killed the platform that application runs on three times over in the same timeframe, so the office manager in the tiny SME goes “well, Windows 11 sure does suck” and then opens up the application from 2005 and starts allocating weedwhackers, because that’s what they do to get paid.
The problem is that we Apple-ites worship at the altar of “Why Yes, We Absolutely Should Let Perfect Be The Enemy Of The Good”.
That backwards compatibility? It’s because (for example) tiny SMEs employing 10 people actively WANT to keep running that .NET application from 2005 that manages how they allocate weedwhackers to weed whacking operatives, because all they care about is whacking weeds.
Apple would have killed the platform that application runs on three times over in the same timeframe, so the office manager in the tiny SME goes “well, Windows 11 sure does suck” and then opens up the application from 2005 and starts allocating weedwhackers, because that’s what they do to get paid.
And yeah, CoPilot isn’t perfect, but Microsoft actually shipped it. Did me a nice recipe for a marinara pasta sauce. It’s not great, but it works.
What’s going on with Apple Intelligence, again? Oh, that’s right. Absolute scenes with all the internal politics.
What’s going on with Apple Intelligence, again? Oh, that’s right. Absolute scenes with all the internal politics.
The underlying architecture is extremely solid. It’s UNIX and UNIX-alikes that are behind the curve, here. Just look at all the stuff you have to do to get proper security onto Linux - AppArmor, SELinux, etc. That stuff is literally baked into NT.
Please have a look at the Music.app UI, which is nearly twenty years of iTunes technical debt in a Liquid Glass frock. Finder went backwards again in Tahoe, with information density at an all-time low and no way to fix it.
And then there’s the absolute fiasco of Finder options, which is just is awful in Sequoia as it is in Tahoe, with view options smeared across Finder’s settings, the View->Options dialog, and so on; in 2025, what the hell is “Clean Up” even for? Sure, we all know, because we’ve been using OS X and macOS for twenty-five years. And before we start tilting at Windows Control Panel, our own Settings app is an absolute skip fire. At least Control Panel (well, Settings) in Windows can be made to fill the screen!
No, Windows isn’t perfect. But we should take the plank out of Tim’s eye before worrying about the mote in Satya’s.
Yet a LOT of people completely disable all things related to Copilot because its a steaming mess, myself included. Apple Intelligence in its current form works much better than Copilot, and I was able to get both a four-course menu and a recipe for a ham and brie puff pastry (with both oven and air fryer variants) using it.
Stop. Making. Excuses. By. Pointing. At. Microsoft.
I just did a Type To Siri “Give me a recipe for a ham and brie puff pastry”.
Result: “To write that, you’ll need to enable ChatGPT”.
And your point is what exactly? You seem awfully defensive of Microsoft, even though the quality of their OSes has gone steadily downhill and more towards being a platform to advertise a bunch of crap. Windows is becoming more like Facebook in that sense than an actual OS. Meanwhile, for things that require ChatGPT access on Apple's side, it is an Opt-in mechanism rather than an "act first, ask permission later" approach like Microsoft loves to use now.
So, Apple Intelligence can’t actually do what CoPilot can, because it shoves you out to OpenAI’s clutches at the earliest opportunity. Apple Intelligence didn’t give you a recipe - ChatGPT did.
Pretending Apple Intelligence is anywhere near the level of any of its competitors is just silly.
Pretending Copilot is the bee's knees is delusional. There's numerous other AI models out there that blow Copilot out of the water without breaking a sweat. That alone is why your anti-apple stance is misleading and hypocritical. Most developers working with AI tools aren't using Copilot, despite the tall tales Microsoft loves to portray as reality. Even developers using Visual Studio are using tools besides copilot because they are more effective in those specific use cases.
Hey now, some of those KDE themes look better than LG right now and are more consistent.
As someone who actually _likes_ solving technical problems/puzzles, it's incredible that people would be so quick to shovel it off to some worthless AI.
Those should be used for statistical data and predictive models in appropriate cases. Not as a constant crutch just to get you through the day.
Who said anything about shoveling off work to AI? You make a lot of assumptions in three sentences, not to mention your attempt at gatekeeping by trying to set limits on when using AI is appropriate.
CoPilot is just a modern-day 'Clippit' Office Assistant (it is even shoved into the modern Office apps in an annoying way too) only without the cutesy little animations of the older Assistants (I always switched him to Links the cat from the CD since he was adorable).
The difference is that Clippit/Clippy didn't steal your data, didn't phone home to microsoft. He just wanted to help.
The difference is that Clippit/Clippy didn't steal your data, didn't phone home to microsoft. He just wanted to help.