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Messages basically doesn’t work anymore. I had to disable Time Machine because of the thrash of indexing itself. The UI makes no sense anymore. They removed
by mulmen 4y ago
Messages basically doesn’t work anymore. I had to disable Time Machine because of the thrash of indexing itself. The UI makes no sense anymore. They removed established shortcuts for… no reason? There’s some kind of pseudo-touch style going on. Like they plan to add a touch screen but didn’t. The iOS-ification continues.
MacOS is a clear second class citizen at Apple. Each of the least three releases has been worse than the one before. I hoped it was the last gasp of Ive but it’s apparently intentional. Or maybe nobody is in charge, which would make more sense.
At this point Linux looks like a better option.
- neoglow 4y agoWhat's even more frustrating was the removal of 32-bit apps in Catalina and the continued deprecation of OpenGL. So many functional apps where the developers have lost interest are now non-functional. Not to even start on the irritating, vista-like security prompts for apps that are not signed (which in development is a lot...). MacOS has become less and less pleasant to use in that last 3 to 5 years for me as a developer, because of this. Which is such a shame, because the new Macbook Pro's are really amazing machines, hardware-wise. Great keyboard, Magsafe, no Touchbar, amazing screen and great battery life. I will be requesting a Linux (or Windows.. whatever) laptop at work if this one dies.
- scarface74 4y agoThere is literally no hardware support for 32 bit apps in the latest ARM processors. The die space was used for something more useful.
- philistine 4y agoIf not for the removal of 32-bit apps, we would not have ARM chips in our computers. What do you think of Microsoft's depreciation of 32-bit?
- nicky0 4y agoWhat are some of these interesting, unmaintained 32-bit apps you speak of?
- mrsteveman1 4y agoThe only Steam game in my library that still works now is Myst. The list of Steam games that even supported macOS at all was already quite short, but now Portal, Portal 2, Team Fortress, the entire Half-Life series, and quite a few others will no longer run. The switch to Apple silicon machines also makes running them in a VM tricky. Even though Windows supports running x86 code on Arm hardware, the mix of architectures inside the VM creates new problems, particularly for Steam.
- philistine 4y agoNomenclature wise, those are games, not exactly apps. What are some applications that are missing?
- memsom 4y agoTascam us-122mkII support was dropped. It is ancient, but it still works and there was a Windows 10 driver. I just got a cheaper Behringer uphoria that uses standard USB audio (or whatever) but loosing the Tascam was annoying.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoIf you're asking this question and not a Mac user I'll eat my Macbook.
- 0des 4y agostart eating
- bigDinosaur 4y agoThey're an Objective C developer, so no, I won't. It's a very typical Apple device user response of 'why would you want to do that?' epitomised by Jobs' 'you're holding it wrong' advice.
- wl 4y agoThe most painful one for me: https://wxtoimgrestored.xyz https://wxtoimgrestored.xyz
- pjmlp 4y agoI will take Metal over Khronos APIs any day of the week, if Khronos would be doing the Internet, all we would have as standard would be IP protocol, with everything else as custom extensions. The Khronos APIs are the ones I have more experience with, and it pains me that all these years it stays as kind of initialiation ritual to go through all the things they miss versus proprietary APIs. Everyone has to write their own mini-engine with their APIs.
- 0des 4y agonew mbp has touchbar.
- timeon 4y ago> Messages basically doesn’t work anymore. What do you mean?
- mulmen 4y agoHuge CPU hog. Features that exist on mobile are missing on desktop. There’s no timestamps on messages. I’m not sure search even exists. Sync with iCloud only mostly works.
- Veen 4y agoYou can see timestamps if you do a two-finger swipe to the right on a trackpad. Not sure how you'd do it with a non-Apple mouse.
- kcplate 4y agoThis has not been my experience. No cpu issues, I can see time stamps on messages if I choose, I can search messages, if there are feature differences between mobile and desktop they are not features I am using, and between my Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone and Mac, all my messages are sync’d just fine. To be honest, the apple ecosystem stuff and how well it works, for me, is one of the biggest benefits of Apple. I walk up to my computer and my watch unlocks it. I can take a call or respond to a message literally on whatever device I happen to be on. For me, I can put up with UI/UX quirks in features like system preferences that I use maybe one or twice a month. Its the holistic experience that matters to me.
- saila 4y ago> There’s no timestamps on messages Right click in the message pane and select "Show Times" > I’m not sure search even exists Search exists and seems to work pretty well
- shotta 4y agoRight click a message window -> show times. Search works great. My CPU is idle. Sync iCloud works perfectly if you toggle your iPhone to also share SMS with your Mac.
- parkingrift 4y agoIf you are legitimately using an 8 year old laptop I can imagine the experience is pretty awful. That has practically nothing to do with the OS.
- mulmen 4y agoWhy? It’s got 16g of RAM and a blazing fast SSD. I had to get the heatsinks cleaned out once. There’s definitely slowdowns but they’re resolved by reboots which makes me think it’s more to do with software than hardware.
- philistine 4y agoHave you heard of this thing called a CPU? The ones Apple puts in its machines have gotten much faster since 2015. All kidding aside, you have a CPU from the nadir of Intel's slow march into irrelevance. I went from a 2013 Air to an M1. It wasn't the software.
- ghaff 4y agoI have a 2015 MacBook Pro. I'm typing on it now. I admittedly do mostly fairly lightweight stuff on it--I do photo/video editing elsewhere although until recently that was a 2015 iMac--but it works fine for that. Certainly not an awful experience.