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0 pointsSllX4y ago0 comments

It’s just one of those things that if you want to, you can get used to it, but if you resist it you won’t. Like learning Vi or Emacs or BBEdit. There are tools you already learned to use, the Macintosh user interface is just another.

The alternative is what? Apple changes something millions of people are already used to, their existing customer base, to satisfy switchers specifically when most can easily adapt? Or you just don’t use a Macintosh. Now what Apple does need to do is bring proper contrast back and stop wasting everyone’s time with this minimalist nonsense; even the option in the Accessibility options is utter garbage.

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kevincox4y ago· 2 in thread

I didn't resist. Although if that was an option I may have considered. And after a year of daily use are work it was still tripping me up.

It's possible for an interface to be widely used and still have sharp edges. I consider this one of macOS's. It doesn't need to change, it may well not be worth it. But at least some people will end up in the menu of the wrong application.

frosted-flakes4y ago

It's easy to run into this situation if you regularly have two windows side-by-side, and switch back-and-forth between them so that the focus could be in either window at any given moment. If you only have windows maximized (as I suspect GP does) it's not something you'll ever run into.

SllXOP4y ago

Nah. Many windows, from many apps, but typically two or three at the front side by side. I’ll leave Full Screen videos open as a kind of running queue in Mission Control but that’s about the extent of it.

There’s no secret, I just don’t lose track of which window I’m focused on in software because that’s the one I’m immediately focused on.

pmontra4y ago

> Or you just don’t use a Macintosh

Exactly. The global menu and the top bar have been the main reasons I never bought a Mac.

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