OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by simonh on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:08AM (#24069883)

Windows went down a six year long dead end with 8.x trying to be both a desktop and a phone/tablet OS at the same time, while also doing it twice as fast as was actually feasible and without taking the time to think it through, in an attempt to catch up with iOS.

Windows 10 actually doesn't seem too bad, except for the vestigial Metro crap. Power Shell looks interesting. They seem to have worked out what to do with .NET at last. WSL2 seems decent too so they finally seem to be back on a productive track.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by shawnz on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:59AM (#24070158)

Not all of Apple's features are hits either.. for example, when's the last time you used Dashboard or Launchpad?

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by breakfastduck on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:10AM (#24070221)

Completely true, but there are way more hits than misses on macOS. Dashboard no longer ships with the OS. Launchpad is useless to me but I can completely forget it exists & never use it.

I think the issues windows has had over the years come down to the fact that the 'misses' they've had are core parts of the OS that you can't avoid using.

I do genuinely think Windows 10 is the best version of windows though, and with WSL they're definitely headed in the right direction.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by dylan604 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:11AM (#24071613)

I use Launchpad frequently. I rearranged my most common apps to be on one screen. I four finger swipe down on my MBP, and there's my apps. I still use Spotlight search too so I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.

Cmd-tab allows to switch to an app, but the Dashboard view lets me get to a specific window within an app directly from whatever view I'm currently in. 4 finger swipe up, and clickity click, I'm in the document I'm wanting

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by saagarjha on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:21AM (#24071718)

> Cmd-tab allows to switch to an app, but the Dashboard view lets me get to a specific window within an app directly from whatever view I'm currently in. 4 finger swipe up, and clickity click, I'm in the document I'm wanting

That sounds like Mission Control.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by dylan604 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:41PM (#24072652)

You may be right. I don't really pay attention to BrandName(TM) of a simple feature. All I know is I never browse the /Applications folder to find an app. I also know that these features are NOT available on Windows. That with the missing spacebar press in Explorer for Quicklook access to a file in Windows makes not using macOS frustrating

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by simonh on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:31AM (#24080070)

The most annoying thing for me on MacOS is no 'New' menu on right-click to create a new file, only a folder. I'm just so used to doing that in Windows that it really annoys me in the Finder. There are ways to hack that in yourself though.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by shawnz on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:55PM (#24074224)

Sure they are: hit win+tab for a Mission Control/Expose-like view, and you can get a Spotlight-style search by just hitting Start and beginning to type.

Dashboard was the name for a widgets system in mac OS.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by sukilot on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:39AM (#24070759)

Apple ran experimental features that failed and we're easy to remove.

Microsoft trashed the core UX twice (Vista and 8)

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