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macOS 26's Cut Corners
- netsharc 10mo agoRelated, 2640 points yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864
- sho_hn 10mo agoGruber's take is nothing but a blog spam rehash that adds nothing at twice the word count, too.
- skylurk 10mo agoGruber is HN's Nickelback. But I appreciated how he reminded me of the grippy-strips.
- WorldMaker 10mo agoA lot of this article certainly is saying "Look at this photograph."
- MarleTangible 10mo agoThe illustration with the breakfast plate is a really good example. https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/#:~:text=Living%20on%20this%20planet%20for%20quite%20a%20few%20decades https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...
- stephen_g 10mo agoI’m very glad I decided to keep my MacBook Pro on the previous version, but it’s irritating that I now seem to need to turn on ‘Beta Releases’ to get any other update but 26.x. And if you click ‘Other Updates’ (where the Safari update is, if you want to update that without restarting the computer) it tries to trick you by also selecting Tahoe by default. That’s the kind of behaviour I’d grown used to from Microsoft over the last decade but something I’d thought Apple was still above until the last little while…
- trashymctrash 10mo agoIs „Dyehoe“ in the title a typo? Otherwise I don’t get it
- sirwhinesalot 10mo agoIt's a pun, look up Alan Dye :)
- rowanseymour 10mo agoAs much as I'm enjoying all these articles about bad MacOS UI design.. people really be refusing to upgrade over this? I'm sitting here on Tahoe happily resizing windows all day (the cursor change lets you know you're grabbing the correct part).
- hyperhello 10mo agoThere is always a single perfect flaw in every apple product release for everyone on social media to align on. Apple may put them there on purpose.
- geoffeg 10mo agoI see no real reason to upgrade, there's no new features that interest me. Combined with the UI issues, why would I upgrade?
- 1stranger 10mo ago1. it's not that bad 2. you'll probably get used to it 3. gotta get it over with sometime
- zapzupnz 10mo agoThese are not reasons. These are placatings.
- Tanoc 10mo agoPeople get very annoyed and less productive when they have to relearn a large portion of their workflow. A carpenter uses the same tools the same way for fifty years, but someone working with software in any capacity has their tools replaced with new ones every few months and has to learn first how they differ and then how to get them to mostly do the same things as they old tools.
- kccoder 10mo ago> there's no new features that interest me Precisely! Can’t recall the last time they added a feature I wanted, so I just stick with the oldest version that is still supported. Upgrading is more likely to break things than provide anything I actually need.
- oniony 10mo agoIt's really not a big issue: the pointer changes to a resize arrow when you're in the right place, so it's pretty clear when you've got it right.
- muro 10mo agoJust tried with Lightroom - sometimes the pointer changes, sometimes it doesn't and stays as the normal arrow. Sometimes it allows resizing in height and width, other times only one of them.
- spider-mario 10mo ago> I think everything about the 10.7 Lion GUI looks better than the 10.6 Snow Leopard GUI — except for the omission of the resize affordance in the corner. I think 10.6 looked way better. fite me
- WorldMaker 10mo agoA part of me still thinks the peak was somewhere around System 7.