Window switching in OS X is so unintuitive it drives me MAD when you are remoting into a Mac.
Finder is just god awful and does all it can to obscure your actual filesystem location but the go to folder (cmd+g?) can get you where you need to go.
Re:We Don’t Use Docker
by blacktriangle on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:55PM
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The Apple reputation was absolutely justified back in the OS9 era, and the early iPhone as well. However both OS X and iOS7 and beyond were huge steps backwards in usability.
At this point I think Apple still deserves their reputation for superior UX, however that's a result of how epically bad Google, MS, and Facebook are at UX, not Apple doing a great job like they used to.
Re:We Don’t Use Docker
by bigbizisverywyz on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:09AM
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for 4. ...as best can tell, no easy way to navigate to that folder's parent
You can add a button to the toolbar in Finder (customize it from options) that when dropped down will show the complete path to the current folder as a list. You can use that to move up the tree.
Re:We Don’t Use Docker
by mpcjanssen on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:29AM
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Cmd-Up brings you to the parent folder.
Re:We Don’t Use Docker
by ricketycricket on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:46PM
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You can also cmd + click the current directory name in the menu bar to get the same menu.
I switched to a MacBook at work a few months ago, and it's been an epic of frustration and Googling: e.g.,
1. I set the keyboard layout to UK PC, but it kept switching back to default. (I was accidentally mashing a keyboard shortcut designed to do just that. I've since disabled it.)
2. Clicking on a link or other web-page element will, occasionally and apparently randomly, take me back a page or two in my history rather than opening the link or activating the element. (At least in Chrome: I've not used another browser on macOS yet.)
3. Command-tabbing to a minimised application does not, as one would naively expect, automatically unminimise it. Instead I'm left staring at an apparently unchanged screen.
4. If I open Finder in a given folder, there is, as best can tell, no easy way to navigate to that folder's parent.
Now arguably #1 was the fault of my own ignorance (though some kind of obvious feedback as to what was happening and why would have been nice), and #2 may be down to Google rather than Apple.
But #3 and #4 are plain bad design, bordering on user-hostile.
So far I'm not seeing that Apple's reputation for superior UX is justified, at least not in laptops.