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That's weird; almost the only issue I don't have with Tahoe on a 2023 M2 Mini is its performance. Do you have transparency enabled?

walthamstow 10mo ago
Yes, I have 'reduce transparency' set to true. Overnight after upgrade the UI became noticably sluggish. The outstanding example is Spotlight. For years since the M1 release I have been able to bring the bar up and type C-H-R then Enter, in ~500ms I guess, and I would always get Chrome. Now, I have to wait another 1-2 seconds for it to think. If I hit enter before it has finished thinking, Spotlight goes away and nothing else happens! The UI and Spotlight are still fine on my 2020 M1 Air running Sequioa
- oneeyedpigeon 10mo ago
  Fair enough. With Tahoe's removal of Launchpad, I assume you're talking about Spotlight in the sense of what appears when you press the Launchpad icon (F4)? Anyway, I can confirm that I also get very weird laggy behaviour from it—sometimes a double-press is interpreted as two presses, sometimes as just one.
  - walthamstow 10mo ago
    I hadn't noticed that they killed Launchpad! On my M3's keyboard, F4 is a magnifying glass icon for Spotlight. I've always used cmd+space, which has been around for a while. What's even worse is I have disabled all search categories for Spotlight except Apps and System Settings. It's searching a list of 40 apps and idk maybe 200 settings, and it still sucks.
    - oneeyedpigeon 10mo ago
      I also never had a problem launching apps from Launchpad (I guess because that was its sole purpose, and it did it well) while I think it was pretty much day 1 that I encountered an app that just refused to show up in the Spotlight replacement.
    - galenko 10mo ago
      At this point why even use spotlight? Raycast or a list of other maybe more minimalistic replacements would work great.
      - hombre_fatal 10mo ago
        Can even vibe code your own like I did. Claude Code wrote a single file AppKit program that uses 30mb memory (avoid SwiftUI). Extended it with dictionary, quick translations, and more. Since I use it every day, I keep polishing it without writing code.
        walthamstow 10mo ago
        This sounds great. Anything on GitHub I can take inspo from?

walthamstow 10mo ago

Yes, I have 'reduce transparency' set to true. Overnight after upgrade the UI became noticably sluggish. The outstanding example is Spotlight. For years since the M1 release I have been able to bring the bar up and type C-H-R then Enter, in ~500ms I guess, and I would always get Chrome. Now, I have to wait another 1-2 seconds for it to think. If I hit enter before it has finished thinking, Spotlight goes away and nothing else happens! The UI and Spotlight are still fine on my 2020 M1 Air running Sequioa

oneeyedpigeon 10mo ago
Fair enough. With Tahoe's removal of Launchpad, I assume you're talking about Spotlight in the sense of what appears when you press the Launchpad icon (F4)? Anyway, I can confirm that I also get very weird laggy behaviour from it—sometimes a double-press is interpreted as two presses, sometimes as just one.
- walthamstow 10mo ago
  I hadn't noticed that they killed Launchpad! On my M3's keyboard, F4 is a magnifying glass icon for Spotlight. I've always used cmd+space, which has been around for a while. What's even worse is I have disabled all search categories for Spotlight except Apps and System Settings. It's searching a list of 40 apps and idk maybe 200 settings, and it still sucks.
  - oneeyedpigeon 10mo ago
    I also never had a problem launching apps from Launchpad (I guess because that was its sole purpose, and it did it well) while I think it was pretty much day 1 that I encountered an app that just refused to show up in the Spotlight replacement.
  - galenko 10mo ago
    At this point why even use spotlight? Raycast or a list of other maybe more minimalistic replacements would work great.
    - hombre_fatal 10mo ago
      Can even vibe code your own like I did. Claude Code wrote a single file AppKit program that uses 30mb memory (avoid SwiftUI). Extended it with dictionary, quick translations, and more. Since I use it every day, I keep polishing it without writing code.
      - walthamstow 10mo ago
        This sounds great. Anything on GitHub I can take inspo from?