Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
by agumonkey on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:50AM
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Macs are strange.
I agree that there's a lot of counter intuitive if not worse UI ideas.
But it's surrounded by tons of superb tricks. Remember the live document preview years ago ?
Also the GUI guidelines made the system visually more appealing.
The compositor is also weird, I cannot really explain but when I use a Mac I don't see layers.. I don't feel like i'm clicking on a button, then an event is sent, then some logic occurs.. maybe it's only subjective bias (can't be 100%) but it feels more direct. Maybe they tailored the graphical subsystem / compositor to ensure extremely low latency I can't say.. but, even after using countless machines and countless desktop environments.. the first time I used a mac I felt something very different. Not better .. but deeply different.
I agree that there's a lot of counter intuitive if not worse UI ideas.
But it's surrounded by tons of superb tricks. Remember the live document preview years ago ?
Also the GUI guidelines made the system visually more appealing.
The compositor is also weird, I cannot really explain but when I use a Mac I don't see layers.. I don't feel like i'm clicking on a button, then an event is sent, then some logic occurs.. maybe it's only subjective bias (can't be 100%) but it feels more direct. Maybe they tailored the graphical subsystem / compositor to ensure extremely low latency I can't say.. but, even after using countless machines and countless desktop environments.. the first time I used a mac I felt something very different. Not better .. but deeply different.