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Wow...TIL...

• shaan7 6y ago
  Yeah thats the other thing I found fascinating about macOS, a bunch of useful features are very hard to discover. Mostly because you won't see any menu entries, but some sort of drag-and-drop will / alt+click will activate a very useful feature. Their idea of being user friendly, I guess.
  • argvargc 6y ago
    Actually, this is one of my biggest problems with macOS. So many tremendously useful things are hidden. Why do they do this? It's not good for anyone. I can understand this concept of "just do what's intuitive - try it!", oh what fun - but nobody is going to risk messing up the important files they're working with by randomly dragging things onto other things just to see what happens. Just tell us how to use it. Almost every (third-party) iOS app or game by comparison seems to have understood this basic concept of educating the user on how to use the product, but Apple falls far behind especially on macOS.
    • shaan7 6y ago
      My guess is that this is the compromise they strike to reduce the "number of options" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    • prestonbriggs 6y ago
      Cynically, I think the publishers have a deal that Apple won't publish manuals.
      • zsmi 6y ago
        https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome-mh43558/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome-mh43558/mac