72deluxe

I find it witty than the removal of the notch is seen as great progress. Why was it even there in the first place? My 2012 Macbook has no notch.

I think you'd be surprised how many people have a lot more money than you and me, and how they buy expensive things and never use them to their "full". Eg. people buy expensive cars and yet aren't racing drivers, and they also buy expensive computers and use them merely for browsing the web.

This argument comes up a lot but I think it's like saying "cars are expensive - you can get an awful lot of bus trips with the monetary value of a car, so why not just use the bus?"

Despite this, cars seems awfully popular.

But does the money itself weigh more than the weight difference? A question to ponder.

If you take an Apple computer from the early OSX releases (an iMac G4 from 2002, for example), you will be able to use it exactly as you use macos today. This indicates a success for UX.

You cannot say the same about GNOME3 or Windows 11 versus XP - Windows 11 has some baffling Settings app and also a Control Panel, being a mashup of different ideas and UI elements (and toolkits! see MMC snap-ins versus the UI of Settings).

The only difference is recent trends to dumb-down the UI to be more iPad-like, and this trend of Etch-A-Sketchification of the macos UI is not something to be welcomed.

My Huawei Watch GT 2 is a few years old and the battery life is (and always has been) better than my wife's (new last year?) Apple Watch SE (GPS) 2nd Generation. They do exactly the same things.

I simply don't understand why the Apple Watch is so pap. My watch lasts all week if I go on holiday, and my wife's is dead won't last much longer than a day.

I believe that user interfaces have just got appallingly bad. Compare Windows 3.11 which came with a paper manual and had about 5 pages detailing scrollbars, buttons, menus and window controls. That is all you had to learn, and you could use the system through consistent usability.

This seems to have been universally abandoned so that user interface elements are hidden (scrollbars), buttons don't look like buttons, and you can "scroll" or move window contents even if there's nowhere for them to scroll to (like on an iPhone where you can "scroll" past the boundary and it comes back. It makes everything an exercise in frustration as you have to grope the user interface to discover if anything is usable.

I believe this is why some of the older generation have such difficulty with basic features on phones and tablets - nothing behaves consistently, and nothing looks like you should be able to press it.

Replying to myself as I cannot edit now: and therefore since wxWidgets is the native user interface, it has no "look"

True, but this is only the case if the track pads are absolutely awful, like you get in very low quality Windows laptops.

I am not sure how you would play a game and watch a video at the same time, unless you have independent eyes?

Yes, and that looks the most ridiculous interaction with the computer I've ever seen.

But wxwidgets is just the actual native user interface?

Intriguing, thank you.

I see comments on here that refer to something someone has said before, for example, "as I said before", or "I said this the other month", as if the entire universe is following a single person's statements. It seems very self-referential and self-consumed.

It is interesting how people are confusing depth of field with AI generated. It's a shame, but perhaps it will end the bokeh conversations and disparaging of M43 sensors.