What do you think about OS X 10.10?

[hamis92]

Sorry, but that's not true.

A year from now, newer applications will only feature the newer design. Developers will also stop supporting the older branch of their software that featured the older design.

For reference, many developers who were committed to preserving Snow Leopard compatibility have since stopped doing so - how many are going to support two different user interfaces?

I get what you're saying. But no one's forcing me to upgrade the applications either. I can continue using whatever is supported on Mavericks if I choose to stay behind.

To clarify my thoughts a bit: of course I do not expect to stay on Mavericks forever. I'll stay for as long as it is sensible for me – that is, until I decide it's time to move on, until I get a new Mac (this Early 2008 MacBook Pro needs to be replaced with a faster, more capable machine at some point) or absolutely need to use that new version of an app that no longer supports Mavericks.

 

[Mackan]

This sucks. Now it's Ive's time to tell the world what he thinks is a good UI. Flatness, translucency, overuse of white and other colors, ah...

UI is only a fashion, it seems.

Too bad I dislike Microsofts new UI as much as well. Have to turn to Linux to have some options?

 

[r0k]

You can do all of that stuff in windows 7. Not sure where you are getting your info, I do it all the time.

When you say "all that stuff" the first feature that comes to my mind as broken is the preview feature in Windows Explorer. On Windows 7 Enterprise, Service Pack 1 when I turned on the preview pane in Windows Explorer, when I looked recently it was unable to preview png files. They showed up as broken-looking icons. It turns out this was caused by some IT snafu at my company and when I checked this morning, preview was working again. So I will have to concede that preview in Windows Explorer is nearly as good as quick view.

My comments about the registry remain valid. OSX Plist files can be a bit of a pain as can files left lying around in "~/Library/Application Support" but these things pale in comparison to the Windows registry which is a huge mess.

One thing that must be omitted from "all that stuff" is the ability to enable/disable capslock without rebooting. It does not exist. Granted this is something you don't have to do every day but the inability to make the capslock key "do nothing" is an annoyance because my left pinkie invariably finds it whenever I'm helping a friend out with their ailing Windows box. And it's never a convenient time to reboot. I reboot Linux and OSX every now and then for major updates or power failures. Windows it seems must get rebooted almost daily either for updates or because it has started running poorly. Again this might not be typical of Win 7 and might be the product of the horrible IT environment at my job.

This sucks. Now it's Ive's time to tell the world what he thinks is a good UI. Flatness, translucency, overuse of white and other colors, ah...

UI is only a fashion, it seems.

Too bad I dislike Microsofts new UI as much as well. Have to turn to Linux to have some options?

You can make Linux look like Win 7 or OSX or something else entirely. The thing I dislike about Linux is it isn't "curated" like OSX and you must more actively manage updates.

 

[sfwalter]

This sucks. Now it's Ive's time to tell the world what he thinks is a good UI. Flatness, translucency, overuse of white and other colors, ah...

UI is only a fashion, it seems.

Too bad I dislike Microsofts new UI as much as well. Have to turn to Linux to have some options?

Wow you hate the UI so much that you want to abandon the platform all together. What about all the software you currently use? Will you have to buy new versions of the software for your new platform.

 

[Tar Sniffer]

10.10 is more tasteful than what I expected. I like some of the new UI design choices, such as Notification Centre, but I'm not sold on the new flat look.

These are my issues with 10.10:

- The icons now look like garbage. I'd have preferred they switched to iOS icons for apps, instead of these ugly abominations. It would have looked more orderly and consistent with the new look too.

- Mission Control is missing app icons.

- Reduction of the task bar. More specifically, the removal of title/info at the top of task bars. Eg, Safari. This was incredibly handy in previous versions of OS X. Also, Messages doesn't appear to have a task bar at all.

 

[grahamperrin]

Buh bai

Hello.

… change the look of your desktop if you don't like it. …

Some of the Yosemite problems caused by Apple can not be worked around.

… not liking the new Safari UI … the menu bar doesn't look right to me.

+1

… I do not expect to stay on Mavericks forever. I'll stay for as long as it is sensible for me …

+1

For me it's sensible to get a new MacBook Pro before Yosemite becomes a requirement.

This sucks. … Flatness, translucency, overuse of white and other colors, ah...

UI is only a fashion, it seems.

… Have to turn to Linux to have some options?

Re https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19555089#post19555089 etc. I have macbuntu-iso1104amd64.iso and will follow up there.

… hate the UI so much that you want to abandon the platform all together. What about all the software you currently use? Will you have to buy new versions of the software for your new platform.

The cost of some software is offset by the zero cost of my preferred operating systems.

The software used most often by me is spoilt by Apple in Yosemite.

… Reduction of the task bar. More specifically, the removal of title/info at the top of task bars. Eg, Safari. This was incredibly handy in previous versions of OS X. …

Yeah, Jason Snell (Macworld) and others were disappointed with Apple's removals.

In some of the seeded builds of Yosemite, including the most recent, I have sought a hidden preference to show the title in the toolbar (or title bar) of Safari. As far as I can tell, there's no such preference – sorry.

 

[mmomega]

I like it and I will use it.

I don't see the point in making something a bigger deal than it is, in the grand scheme of things the font used in OS X doesn't affect my life that greatly.

Similar to Apple removing a CD/DVD drive, it didn't really change my life. I had already gotten rid of anything that used a CD/DVD drive in my house other than the XBOX which I only download to directly.
I only have an external drive because a piece of software at work will only load patient X-Rays to a CD.

 

[grahamperrin]

What do you think about system fonts in pre-release Yosemite?

… the font …

A more focused poll: What do you think of Lucida Grande + OS X Yosemite

 

[mmomega]

...more focused ...

Here's a real issue with focus iPhone 5 FaceTime Image Focus Problems

 

[Appl3FTW]

anyone else having issue with random freezing?