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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by runjake on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:21PM (#46413204)
This was my last straw that caused me to disable Spotlight:

Typing something into Spotlight, having it pull up the right result and highlight it, and me hitting the Enter key, and the search results suddenly updating after and highlighting some new result and then opening that instead.

It’s not just Liquid Glass. It’s bugs like these where I realized Apple software was truly rotten to the core. Whomever is running the show (Craig) can’t do their job.

I’m now noticing the same bug in the latest versions of Windows 11 when I hit the start button and run a search.

This was a solved computer science problem.

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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by ptr on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:33PM (#46413287)
Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.
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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by layer8 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:23PM (#46414143)
It seems to be that these things never last, as company culture inevitably changes.
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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by jkestner on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:48PM (#46414347)
That laggy behavior plus indexing not appearing to find some obvious files made me switch to Raycast.
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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by walthamstow on Sunday December 28, 2025 @04:24PM (#46414672)
Raycast looks really cool, thanks
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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by runjake on Sunday December 28, 2025 @07:44PM (#46416102)
Same. It’s closed source and has a subscription fee, but I’m all in on Raycast.
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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by jkestner on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:01AM (#46553921)
You only have to pay for the Pro version. As a replacement for Spotlight the free version does great for me.
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Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief by seemaze on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:33PM (#46413734)
The updating input locations under your cursor in particular is so f*ing frustrating.

To be fair, it's not just macOS, but many webpages which load dynamic content as well.

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