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> The new System Settings and Stage Manager in Mac OS Ventura, to put it bluntly, are a fucking joke. So these are the pet peeves that are mainly meant to back
by lloeki 4y ago
> The new System Settings and Stage Manager in Mac OS Ventura, to put it bluntly, are a fucking joke.
So these are the pet peeves that are mainly meant to back the author's point.
> With this (and more) in mind, you can see how difficult and painful upgrading to a new Mac becomes for me
I updated to Ventura something like a month ago. At first I was disoriented by the new System settings, as it broke my habits, yet I still managed to find what I needed to, only with a bit of drag because it's reorganised. But then I went back to my work laptop which has the old prefpane stuff, and... the sysprefs I was so used to ever since Tiger just seemed infuriatingly backwards to me, having accreted tons of preferences over time in preexisting places that made increasingly little sense.
So, sysprefs is revamped, things have been shuffled around to hopefully make more sense (personal take: it does), and it's hardly in your face any time of the day.
Then, Stage Manager. I didn't even try it (so can't share an opinion on that) because when you're upgrading it's disabled by default, so the argument that upgrading is difficult and painful falls flat on its face as you're literally left with the same desktop you had before. (I will try the feature eventually, I just didn't get to it yet because time is a scarce resource).
I could reasonably hear some arguments about macOS "losing its way", or being increasingly incompatible with one's values, but these two are not it.
- matwood 4y agoI think a lot of these types of articles are related to the fact that a lot of passionate computer users use Macs. And let's be honest, they also tend to get tons of views. People have been ripping on Windows since it came out so another windows rant doesn't matter. Relatively no one uses Linux desktops so no one cares about those rants. MacOS though falls right in the sweet spot for a good rant though. For the record I agree with you. I've been running Venture since beta 1. The new system preferences is better and allows for future growth, but they have some bugs to get worked out visually.
- vvillena 4y agoI upgraded yesterday. Stage Manager mostly stays out of your way even when it's enabled. Its addition means macOS now has 3 modes of interacting with windows: - The Classic way, with piles of overlapping windows in a single desktop, and the ability to minimize and hide them. - The Spaces way, allowing for full screen apps and also multiple desktops containing separate sets of windows. - The Stages way, which allows to arrange groups of windows from a desktop into different sets, defaulting to one stage per application, but allowing for arbitrary groupings. The key aspect is these three modes complement each other. Stage Manager really makes the system more efficient, productive, and even nicer-looking. It's 100% an old-timer Apple feature. I got a feeling this person would hate Spotlight or Quick Look if those features were to be released nowadays instead of 15 years ago.