Comment by 12_throw_away

Comment by 12_throw_away 10 hours ago

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I swear I don't usually complain about UI styling updates, because it's usually not a big deal - but this looks really, really bad [1]. It's less functional with bizarre transparency choices destroying legibility, and big rounded corners taking up more dead space. And stylistically, the layouts just look unbalanced and amateurish (It reminds me of what happens when I attempt to do CSS layouts). Most Linux desktops unironically look better than this.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-a...

mrandish 8 hours ago

It's ironic that Apple makes screen size incredibly expensive for every millimeter - and then designs UI which proceeds to waste that pricey real-estate as well as user time by burying options (or worse, simply removing many advanced user options "because they don't fit").

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christophilus 8 hours ago

Wow. I know I’m not the first to say it, but it really does give me Windows Vista vibes. No bueno.

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  • dijit 7 hours ago

    vista was pretty nice looking tbh (or, it was to me, especially the black ultimate edition with the frosted glass).

    It just chugged like madness, the UAC dialogs were slow to fade in (and numerous) and the widgets and moving wallpaper was about 10y too early.

    I was distinctly not happy with the control panel changes, but hindsight tells me that I should have been.

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    • lwhi 6 hours ago

      Vista made me jump ship to Linux on 2006, where I remained for a good 17 years.

      Maybe I'm going to jump back to Linux because of this update.

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    • renewiltord 5 hours ago

      It’s funny how different people saw things. UAC was hated back then but I was a Linux user primarily and when I bought my laptop I kept the Windows Vista while dual booting. UAC mostly made sense and worked like gksudo.

      I remember saying so once and got flamed by people online because of course Microsoft didn’t copy this from Linux and of course gksudo was much better.

      But the subjective experience I had was the same. IMHO the greatest victory with Electron has been that the OS wars have practically ended.

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veeti 8 hours ago

Imagine if Steve saw this...

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tahoe...

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  • dsego 7 hours ago

    I had the same issue on first start, the icons had to load while I was scrolling.

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  • jimmydoe 4 hours ago

    my iphone 16 and m1 mac are much slower on this.

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  • crinkly 7 hours ago

    Think something is borked there. Mine doesn't do that.

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data-ottawa 6 hours ago

I'll give it a try, I installed the iOS and iPadOS betas and I actually like some of the changes.

But I do not understand how the color-tinted UI/icons ever got shipped. They just look... bad...

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cyberpunk 9 hours ago

I absolutely hate it. I guess we’ll probably get used to it but until then… gah ugliest MacOS ever?

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  • throw-the-towel 6 hours ago

    Don't think of it as the ugliest MacOS ever, think of it as the most beautiful MacOS of the rest of your life.

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  • keyle 5 hours ago

    What's not to love about macOS Vista?

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  • rick_dalton 8 hours ago

    Hoping the next update is the iOS 8 to the iOS 7 redesign and then it'll be fine.

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Crontab 8 hours ago

So far the only thing bothering me so far is the way the tabs look (in Finder and Safari). And I did turn on the menu bar background.

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  • dsego 7 hours ago

    Have the tabs in Finder always been slow to appear? Right now there is a noticeable delay from when I press cmd+tab to when tab animates itself into existence, reminds me of lag in windows 11.

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    • Crontab 4 hours ago

      For me it is very fast to appear. I am on a M3 MacBook Pro.

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Hamuko 8 hours ago

I do dislike how toy-like the user interface looks, but I really hate how illegible notifications are on iPadOS. I had to turn on the reduce transparency setting so I could read the notification text against my lock screen wallpaper.

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  • asadotzler 8 hours ago

    You've been disabled by Apple. There's no other way to characterize your (and my) need for an accessibility setting to make the OS usable.

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