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I count four different corner radius sizes currently on my screen, which is maddening. Apple has a thing against people with OCD. Or taste. The thing is horri
by rcarmo 1y ago
I count four different corner radius sizes currently on my screen, which is maddening.
Apple has a thing against people with OCD. Or taste.
The thing is horribly wasteful of screen real estate, and as someone who’s been writing a Mac blog for over two decades, I am so happy I started using Fedora two years ago—GNOME has its flaws, but it looks nicer than Tahoe.
- iqandjoke 1y agoIt is only Apple can do. It needs courage and innovation. We, as user should not be beta tester.
- behnamoh 1y ago> It is only Apple can do. I've come to doubt this. Literally anything Apple does gets copied (sometimes even better than Apple's version).
- hajile 1y agoDoesn't MS still have screens rendered like Windows 3.1 or Win95 in some corners of the OS?
- WXLCKNO 1y agoAnd I love it
- winrid 1y agoYeah because some enterprise customers override/extend those panels.
- behnamoh 1y agoSo? That doesn't make what Apple is doing sound any better.
- luismedel 1y agoI'd pay (even more) for Apple to have the same backwards compatibility policy as Microsoft has.
- ahoka 1y agoThey (sometimes) understand that UI is API.
- lysace 1y agoThat's not possible. I saw a video yesterday where Greg Joswiak (SVP worldwide marketing at Apple) assured me that Apple has the best design team in the world.
- reactordev 1y agoMaking the world a better place by rounding off all the hard edges including those edge cases… If 12px won’t do, try 42
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- chronogamous 1y agoThen maybe they should let them do the design of the interface, for it is obvious that whatever team they've currently got working on it, design is clearly not their forté.
- rvrb 1y agoFedora Silverblue is the closest feeling to the macOS experience I fell in love with that I’ve had on Linux in, well, ever. Very happy with it on my desktop and laptop. It’s not perfect but it is less imperfect than modern macOS has become. Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however.
- rcarmo 1y agoI have a couple that work quite well with it, including a very nice 10” one - https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/05/15/2230 https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/05/15/2230 And I run a macOS-like GNOME theme that is pretty great.
- p_ing 1y agoThis looks great, but not for the US market! https://store.chuwi.com/products/corebook-x-i3-1220p?#descs https://store.chuwi.com/products/corebook-x-i3-1220p?#descs
- Rebelgecko 1y agoBased on past experience, I wouldn't buy chuwi hardware unless you're willing to treat it as disposable
- p_ing 1y agoGood to know... at that price it almost is. I just want a half way decent Linux laptop that isn't FHD or 5 years old. Carbons are more than I want to pay for something 'for fun'. That's less expensive than the ASRock NUC BOX-225H I bought... and that was without RAM/NVMe.
- awesome_dude 1y agoAre you using Fedora on the Mac (via Asahi)? Or are you using Fedora on an Intel/AMD laptop?
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- nine_k 1y agoI always thought that Gnome developers are imitating macOS. Not copying blindly, but following the ideas and intents. Finally I hear from real users that the Gnome team has not just reached parity, but has actually exceeded their source of inspiration. (Partly due to the degradation of the latter, but still.)
- robertlagrant 1y agoWhen it takes me 5 clicks and two open windows to pick a bluetooth speaker in Gnome, I remember how far behind it is from MacOS's 2 clicks and zero windows.
- macco 1y agoIt doesn't. It takes 2 clicks.
- robertlagrant 1y agoMaybe that's a new version of Gnome? I have 5 clicks (actually 7, I realised in a sibling comment).
- Fluorescence 1y agoWhat? It's pretty much the same. Click the speaker icon the menubar, bluetooth is one of the options, third click to choose a connection. There are plenty of excellent extensions if you want something different. I use dash-to-panel to combine the system tray in my dock and not have a pointless menu bar. > zero windows Are you not calling the MacOS sound-panel a window? It's the same type of panel you use in Gnome! I use both everyday and it's MacOS that's buggy, inconsistent and hobbled: - my speaker doesn't appear in the MacOS sound panel but does appear in the bluetooth section of settings so I have to go there to connect and it works as a speaker. MacOS is literally worse than Gnome at this specific task! - I also can't use my Mac as a bluetooth speaker but I can use Linux as one. Pretty lame.
- robertlagrant 1y ago
- truncate 1y agoGNOME does look quite nice and I use it on my desktop everyday. Unfortunately, once I go beyond programming/general productivity (e.g. photography, music recording) there is nothing that comes to MacOS+MacBook combo. Windows usually have ports of these apps, so I'm hoping maybe one day Linux can run those (we are already there with games).
- greenavocado 1y agoWhat are we talking about here?
- vbezhenar 1y ago> Apple has a thing against people with OCD. Their window close button with slightly off cross in the red circle was a nightmare to my OCD.
- johnhamlin 1y agoWell great, now I can never unsee that
- whywhywhywhy 1y agoDo you mean corner radiuses on the edge of windows? Because corner radiuses within windows should be different from the edge ones because the same corner radius stacked within itself creates ugly corners.
- Someone 1y ago> I count four different corner radius sizes currently on my screen, which is maddening. I don’t see the mere fact of having multiple radiuses alone is a good criticism of the UI. If seeing multiple corner radiuses infuriates you, how do you survive in the real world? (https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html) Or do you think it would look or work better with more consistency in corner radiuses? I would think radiuses look best when (somewhat) scaled to the dimensions of their rectangle (and that’s where, IMO, they may not be doing things the best way. For thin, long rectangles, I think the radius they chose is a tad too large, leaving barely any vertical straight lines)