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The difference is that this is a highly subjective "problem". I actually love the touch bar. I'm not in love with esc and f-keys not being physical but lots of
by dljsjr 9y ago
The difference is that this is a highly subjective "problem".
I actually love the touch bar. I'm not in love with esc and f-keys not being physical but lots of the other stuff it does is pretty great. Like, the brightness and volume sliders he hates so much? I love them. Greatly prefer them over buttons. I've been developing on MacBooks for about 7 years now and I do almost no system configuration at all besides installing requisite apps. So yeah, I do love that developing on a Mac doesn't require me to configure it.
My takeaway is that most people probably DON'T do all that much configuring of their systems. But they aren't writing blog posts about how much they love their touch bars because there's no meat to that. It's not a useful article to write. But for people who do dislike the touch bar, this article is super useful to them.
- ricw 9y agoSame. Ever since I’ve found the “hold slidebar<volume|brightness>”+slide shortcut this has gotten even better. You press <volume>, slide left or right in one go and You’ve adjusted it better than you could have previously. Prior to the touchbar I simply wouldn’t use the Fn buttons ever. Now I actually use them.
- makecheck 9y agoBefore the Touch Bar, you could always use modifier keys in combination with volume keys for continuous (rather than discrete) volume adjustments. Except it was on the screen, with a huge volume display, using volume keys you could feel with your fingers, taking up less keyboard space overall.
- dwighttk 9y agoshift + option +volume up / down for those who are curious