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macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

128 points · 168 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. mikae1 · · focus · HN ↗
    When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release?

    Me? Snow Leopard.

    When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.

    1. Telaneo · · focus · HN ↗
      I'm stuck trying to figure out what new stuff they could add. Sidecar was neat, but I never need it. I'm very happy on Cinnamon on Linux, which is probably less featured than KDE (haven't daily driven it to confirm), which just confirms I don't actually need or want user-facing new features. I need stability.

      I think Apple realise this. There are no genuine new OS features to be added, so they just shuffle things around so that things are changing and thus seem fresh and hip. For anyone who cares about stability and doesn't want to relearn everything they shuffle around, this is nothing but a negative, but Apple et al. have no other levers to pull (well, there's the AI lever, but that's also generally not a positive in and of itself).

      Maybe there are new OS features that could be useful, but creating and integrating them in a way that's actually helpful is just such an ordeal that nobody will do it.

      1. dr_dshiv · · focus · HN ↗
        Something to improve my mess of ~22 active terminal windows comes to mind.
        1. Telaneo · · focus · HN ↗
          Christ.

          On some level, this is probably something your terminal emulator should handle, just as your web browser should handle a mess of 22 tabs, but I don't think we've really come up with good solutions there either. It's hard to implement features nobody's though of.

          1. dr_dshiv · · focus · HN ↗
            Terminal should be responsibility of OS. God knows it’s deep enough. It could be so much better—and it matters!

            I know expecting UX innovation from Apple is laughable, but there was a time…

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