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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. reddit_clone · · focus · HN ↗
          Have you tried other 3rd party terminal applications? (Iterm, ghostel, CMux)

          They have many quality of life improvements over the basic terminal.

          1. dr_dshiv · · focus · HN ↗
            I use Ghostty. I’ve tried iterm and cmux.

            I think we can do better. It’s a hard problem, admittedly. But important.

            1. quesera · · focus · HN ↗
              I'm sure you've considered and rejected tmux, but is this only because it has a different UI than a native OS app?
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