macOS Tahoe Unpopular(?) Opinion

macOS Tahoe Unpopular(?) Opinion
from d00phy@lemmy.world to apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on 21 Sep 23:26
https://lemmy.world/post/36273124

It’s just… ugly. It’s kind of a retro-ish, but chunky design. It really shows it full ugliness in the Finder windows, especially when you column view (which I default to). It looks like a design by committee mishmash of stuff that all collides. I’m not normally one to hate on stylistic choices in an OS. I’ve never had much interest in “ricing” my environment, but I’m really just not a fan of this.

All the individual little “bubbles” of things instead of buttons, or even just borderless areas denoted by an icon. The way the left column looks like it’s just plopped down on top of the rest of the content. Like it’s a separate entity, but it’s not. Especially noticeable in how the lower cookie crumb trail at the bottom of the window just abruptly ends at the border to the left column. Also, the color choice for the sliders is… bold. Almost the most noticeable thing in the screenshot! This looks like a Linux Enlighenment DE theme from the early `00s trying to emulate OS-X. The dark view looks slightly better.

About the only positive thing I can find is the tolerances around the edges of windows for resizing feels more forgiving than in the past & w/ other operating systems (ahem: Windows). On some OSs/desktop environments, it seems like there’s a 1-2 pixel area where the cursor changes and you can resize a window. In contrast, this works pretty good in Tahoe.

#apple_enthusiast

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WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world on 21 Sep 23:30 next collapse

Personally, I like the eye candy. However, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We should get an option to opt out. Or, better yet, allow us to reskin on our own with our own themes.

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 00:31 next collapse

This is not an unpopular option. Every other post is about this being ugly or buggy.

dinckelman@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 00:38 next collapse

I’ve grown to like the iOS version of this update over the past month, or at least i don’t find it as abrasive anymore, however they have clearly just not spent enough time designing Tahoe. It’s buggy, it’s laggy, it’s unfinished, and there are elements that have just not been updated at all

turkalino@lemmy.yachts on 22 Sep 00:49 next collapse

Looks a lot like GNOME (i.e. ugly)

monogram@feddit.nl on 22 Sep 05:33 collapse

Worse, it looks like Pop_OS!

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 22 Sep 00:58 next collapse

Yea. It’s like they are getting ready to make macOS a touch interface.

JelloBrains@piefed.zip on 22 Sep 01:27 collapse

It feels, to me, like they are doing a very slow merger of the iOS and macOS systems, eventually I believe they want it to be just one that scales to the device.

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 02:47 next collapse

SMillerNL@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 06:33 collapse

We’re only a bit behind xkcd.com/1508/

moseschrute@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 07:18 collapse

This2ShallPass@lemmy.world on 23 Sep 14:25 collapse

Forgot the Linux home server that was turned on and forgotten about but has been running continuously for decades of uptime and continues running off solar power even after civilization has ended.

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca on 22 Sep 02:53 next collapse

It’s unfinished. Like iOS 26. Unacceptable little bugs everywhere.

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works on 22 Sep 07:01 next collapse

Not a Mac user, so I’m seeing this for the first time. At first I didn’t get what you meant, but the longer I looked the more things I found that bothered me.

Here’s a list (feel free to add things):

corner radius on rounded edges is too large
sidebar menu blends poorly with the rest of the UI (lighter color, white frame, no horizontal padding)
status line at the bottom is inefficient (could be one line instead of two, not sure why one has a close button) and seems inconsistent with the rest of the UI (thinner lines, no padding at the line ends)
horizontal separators in the file tree are too thick (makes them look like scroll bars)
tabs at the top look like a giant toggle button (not like tabs)
buttons on the top right have a white background that seems unnecessary (the active button goes from light gray to white to medium gray, which is too busy)
forward/back buttons on the top right have inconsistent design and look like one of them is active
colors for active elements in the outer UI don’t match (light gray in the sidebar menu, medium gray for the top buttons, white for the tabs)

This is just visuals. I can’t judge the functional aspects of the design.

Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip on 23 Sep 15:52 next collapse

status line at the bottom is inefficient

One is a path bar, the other is a status bar. The path bar shows you the full filesystem path to where you are, the status bar shows you details like object count and size. They’re independent things that can be separately enabled / disabled through the view menu.

Also, that’s not a close button. It’s a pencil with a slash through it, the user does not have write permission for that location.

Twipped@l.twipped.social on 23 Sep 17:01 collapse

corner radius on rounded edges is too large

Oh it gets worse, the radius is also inconsistent across different kinds of windows and applications

Meron35@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 08:33 next collapse

The rounded corners all all inconsistent sizes. Worst of all, for the really large rounded corners like in the settings app it clips off the scroll bar.

vandsjov@feddit.dk on 23 Sep 14:04 collapse

I hate the round buttons in Chrome - seeing them everywhere now just makes me want to switch to another OS. Round buttons just looks so uninspiring and cheap.

monogram@feddit.nl on 23 Sep 09:03 next collapse

I thought this picture was a render, a joke

monogram@feddit.nl on 23 Sep 09:08 next collapse

Snow Leopard is where ui peaked

Twipped@l.twipped.social on 23 Sep 16:58 next collapse

We need to roll back all OS UI designs to 2010 until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Bring back windows 7.

thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works on 23 Sep 19:36 collapse

literally

Twipped@l.twipped.social on 23 Sep 16:55 collapse

Theres a theory that Apple released this a year early and unfinished because Apple Intelligence is so far over its head that they had nothing else to debut