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Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up 😅

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't hate macOS, and I don't even know if I consider it worse than Windows, but here are a few things I dislike.

  1. Overuse of icons with no clear way to turn on labels combined with a weirdly high time for tooltips to appear makes things confusing.
  2. Finder doesn't have a way to just go up a directory or easily type/get the path of the current folder. The home folder is not in the shortcut area by default.
  3. "Alt tabbing" between windows behaves very differently, though it's not necessarily worse, just different. Command tab switches programs. Command back tick switches windows of that program. So if you want to switch between windows of a browser it is a different shortcut. This one is entirely opinion based. But still, there's no way to change the behavior.
  4. Notifications go away after a very short time period or stay forever. There isn't an easy way to get them to stick around longer without making them stay until you dismiss them. It'd be nice to have a middle ground between a few seconds and forever.
  5. Closing a window doesn't necessarily close a program. Like the "alt tabbing" thing this is opinion based too, because these approaches both technically predate the other approach. Sometimes you close a window and it has a dot on the task bar meaning it's still running. It's very odd.
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
  1. I’m not really sure why this is a major sticking point but if you truly cannot find apps because their name isn’t showing then you just need swipe for launchpad and start typing, they’ll show up. If you have that many apps that look the same I’m really not even sure what you’re up to or how you pulled it off.
  2. Correct, this is ass and I have no clue what the hell is going on. I think there is a way but it should be easier, and the default, and it is incredible that it’s been like this for so long.
  3. Sounds like a you problem. There are so many ways to make do it the way that works best for you and with their trackpad, which is objectively better than any other trackpad out there, it’s super easy. You can pull fingers together to show everything on that desktop or uses a few fingers to swap between desktops. You can keep stuff on the side of a desktop, too. There are so many options to make it work and pretty much all of them respond to a simple wave of your hand.
  4. What an odd complaint. It’s a notification just to tell you something is happening that you should then go look for, and you can swipe and see them all so I really don’t understand what the big deal is. I have mine for always on because I can be forgetful, and my phone is set to remind me of texts 3 different times over the course of 0-4min so I don’t miss them.
  5. Yea, sometimes you need to fully quit a program. I can’t exactly say why it does it that way instead of making closing the program instant death but it’s never really bothered me. There Windows programs, for example, that also need to be fully closed but they won’t tell you and will just have a bunch of stuff running that you can see in task manager. It’s not an exclusive quirk it simply just that MacOS doesn’t try to hide it.

Look, despite being largely completely unremarkable in either any positive or negative ways I will concede that Finder does have that major issue in #2 but the rest really aren’t issues, I’m sorry.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

I mean, I never really said it was a big deal, I made it very clear. Why are you being so defensive about it lol. Are you a UI designer at Apple or something?

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Finder is ass, no feature to get filepath, no feature to open location in terminal, no way to go to parent folder (the button that looks like it does this actually is a "back" button that takes you to previous location).

Also you can't quit Finder for some reason. On my Debian VM I can quit Dolphin. Finder is probably embedded to show files on the desktop. (I've never understood having the desktop be a directory, seems like bloat to me.)

Overall the DE is a lot worse than Plasma:

  • Why isn't the Dock (taskbar that eats 300 to 1200 MB of ram) a screen edge for moving windows
  • Why won't you let me customize stuff
  • Why are app actions in the DE top bar rather than the window name bar

It's also a walled garden that intentionally makes compiling apps for it hard for small devs (you need to be verified by apple to have your app not be flagged as "probably a virus")

The only good thing about MacOS is that it is a very stable OS that rarely needs fixing.

I'm installing Asahi Linux as soon as it supports DisplayPort over USB-C.