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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most of these are absolute whiny bullshit. Half of these are about progress. 32 bit app support? Yeah no shit, this isn’t windows. They’re gonna move forward at some point.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really pissed off about being unable to run half my Steam library

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Were you able to run it on Mac before an update?

[–] peskywarrior@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Didn't forget the ability to uninstall pre-installed apps without compromising security and locking you out of updates (you need to modify the system image which affects SIP and also doesn't allow you to use FileVault disk encryption once disabled)...

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anyone arguing for Mobile Me and PowerPC apps is a crazy person.

This is a bizarre list that lacks context. Also, much of this functionality still exists, but it’s been rebranded or moved.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

There are some awesome games I grew up playing that I can't run anymore. Like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5PTq7vXA4

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You’d be surprised how much of this stuff has new ports, community ports, or can be run in an emulator.

Here is EV Nova:
http://escape-velocity.games/

That said, IMHO, compatibility from the Apple / Microsoft isn’t what really made this one hard to play. The developer went out of business and turned off some servers that the game needed. It looks like the community had to build off of a cracked copy of the game.

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I've been using OS X / macOS for over 20 years now, often alongside some Linux or *BSD distro or another. For the past 10 I've been exclusively using macOS, but recently I've started thinking of ditching it for Linux.

The OS just gets more closed down over time, includes more and more really fucking creepy surveillance features, loses actually useful features, and gains bugs. Apple also has an incredibly annoying habit of coming up with new and possibly useful features that they introduce and then just leave to languish, or replace with a similar but more broken one; Automator & Shortcuts is a pretty good example of this. Or Aperture & iPhoto/Photos.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

KDE neon is pretty slick. Plasma 6 is a big step. Still lacks a decent replacement for Photoshop (no, gimp sucks).

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why pay for Photoshop when Photopea is free and does what 90% of Photoshop users actually need to do? Also, GIMP has come a long way, it's more usable than ever and gets better with every new release.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Photopea is ad driven, and web based. Which means it’s going to be slower. And I agree GIMP has come a long way, but it’s not a competitor. I use Affinity Photo on my Mac, and I’ve found it to be a good replacement. I do wish they would release a Linux binary.

[–] huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t want to run wine

[–] huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I wish Affinity would release a client on Linux but that's clearly never going to happen.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Which is really too bad, because they would dominate the Linux market.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Yes every macOS and Windows upgrade I've done at least in the last decade has felt like a downgrade where I lost something significant I was using regularly and gained nothing useful whatsoever.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I'm with you. It was always about the intuitive nature of the OS, and things just working, for me. All that seems to have gone out the window, and my ecosystem is just as frustrating as Windows at this point. I've been a MacOS user since 2007.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

10.10 Yosemite • A legible user interface

Oh burn.

In all seriousness, this is an enlightening list. I knew someone of these like save as, but not others, like loss of antialiasing on non-retina Mac’s.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I have a non-retina running 11, and it’s antialiased. So, lies.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 8 months ago

The new font smoothing is not the same with the subpixel anti aliasing it replaced. Thin text on non-retina monitors looks worse now than before. Most people probably don't notice it, but for those that do it was a major downgrade.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

The missed Preview’s recent loss of the ability to open Postscript and EPS files. That was a real bummer

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The big one for me is Time Machine lost the ability to delete that has already been backed up.

So if you work with very large files and they fills your backup drive... that's it. You need to either buy a new drive or erase it completely (losing all your historical backups). With the old Time Machine you could go through it and delete half a terabyte of data that never really needed to be backed up.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

RIP Back to my Mac. You were the GOAT of your era.

[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It was all downhill after Snow Leopard

[–] Nogami@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Pretty sure I can live with it.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this is a popular opinion, but for me Yosemite to Catalina was perfect looks wise. Mac OS became real ugly with Big Sur.
I dunno, I just really miss the gradients and the new design language of merging buttons and titlebar into one thick ass titlebar is plain horrendous to me.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

It’s all been downhill since Bug Sur.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Every update depresses me as i know i will loose something important