I've been futzing around in the options and changing views. I'm not sure if I changed something, but it looks good now. I'll have to check again later around the time I posted that message, and the colors have changed.
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I've been futzing around in the options and changing views. I'm not sure if I changed something, but it looks good now. I'll have to check again later around the time I posted that message, and the colors have changed.
Two things:
1. Why is the red line area so tall, it cuts into your view of webpages and is definitely bigger than it was in Catalina for no reason.
2. What is this black line transition above Safari all about, shouldn't Safari cover this up?
1. Why is the red line area so tall, it cuts into your view of webpages and is definitely bigger than it was in Catalina for no reason.
2. What is this black line transition above Safari all about, shouldn't Safari cover this up?
sure, human brains will to adapt to anything that persists to our senses. It doesn't mean the changes are for the better.
I agree, overall I like it but there's definitely some areas and icons that need polished and improved. The battery icon looks terrible in settings, launchpad looks out of place like it was a work in progress and someone accidentally signed off on it. Calculator icon looks blurry.
They’ve made macOS more suitable for touch input. And abandoned mouse and keyboard users.
I’ve no idea how this got past basic design checks.
The OS looks like a proof of concept / work in progress.
all the wasted space causes the toolbar to collapse, meaning you have to spend more time digging to use your tools.
I don't think I like the full height sidebar. Theres no reason for it. Must have been one of those "brave" decisions.
The bar under the toolbar that's says BBC, Parler etc, can you get rid of that bar or is it permanent?
I think I'm going to go back to Catalina. Big Sur is absolutely atrocious
It's actually so awful I'm considering whether to go back to Catalina or just switch back to Windows or Linux. Apple is just a trainwreck----worse and worse every year.
Was on Mojave, installed Big Sur, didnt like it, somehow font was blurry, even with this
defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
so went back and installed Catalina. I found the big head in Safari exhausting to look at, same as with the new icons. Maybe you get used to it with time, but for now no thx, Big Sur is just not for me.
defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
so went back and installed Catalina. I found the big head in Safari exhausting to look at, same as with the new icons. Maybe you get used to it with time, but for now no thx, Big Sur is just not for me.
The activity monitor was one of the things I was just looking at. Just a trainwreck. Mail is terrible too.
I wish I had your experience. My year old Mac stutters at simple things like resizing a Finder window.
Do you like Catalina more than Mojave? I am currently in Mojave but always held off on updating to Catalina because of the bugs and crashes.
Been using it for like 2 hrs, but for now, i haven't noticed many differences, to be quite honest. It runs smooth for now, i'm on MBP 15 2015.
Trying to reinstall Catalina now. They don't exactly make it easy to boot from a bootable drive do they. I've had it with Apple.
I agree looks like some 1st student design the colors GEEZ
I think Big Sur is going to be the Windows Vista of this generation.
Really have you looked and ever used Windows 10 lately.