First, I hate Apple nearly as much as MS, and I am defending the common experience rather than company.

The dock does what it’s designed to do; “properly” needs to be defined. It is crappy, limited software and since it is mouse-oriented, slow and inefficient and merely one way to do things like open apps. Use spotlight or the app switcher with the keyboard instead and save time. (Spotlight has its own problems but is still much better than the dock!)

If the red button doesn’t close the window, the app isn’t using the developer interface guidelines. Also, try Command-W, it might work better for you.

Also, switching desktops (screens as you said) is trackpad oriented and one smooth gesture , no delay. Using a mouse is more clicky, yes, but normally no delay. Keyboard commands might be what you want here? Also, are you using oddball apps that are fighting the OS?

Regarding your sample set of experiences, I believe you, but trust that my sample set is unusually large due to doing user support for a long time, and few users with a healthy typical install of the OS overall have those complaints:

• setting default apps normally works consistently
• red button closes window on mainstream macOS apps, rarely otherwise
• dragging windows is pretty smooth between monitors (I have to demonstrate this after showing people how to arrange monitors)

I want it to stop hanging up when I drag windows from one monitor to the other.

That might be caused by a few things, such as the virtual arrangement of screens, but it’s not typical.

When I switch screens I want it to switch when I click on it and not click, wait, and click again.

Also unusual. Something odd about your setup.

I want the dock to disappear and stop consuming screen real estate, but I also want it to come back up when I need it.

Dock hiding is a basic setting. It could work better because I can trigger it showing by accidentally mousing to that edge. The Dock is kind of for beginners, and limited in functionality though, it won’t anticipate your needs. I advise moving to the left side and shrinking it.

I need the red x to actually close the window instead of just minimizing it.

It closes the window, not minimizes. That’s a misclick, or a broken app. On one-window apps it also quits the app.

All of these things sometimes happen and sometimes don’t, with seemingly no reason, which is the most frustrating part, and this inconsistent behavior spans iOS as well.

Again, your experience is unusual in these specific respects, so I suspect you are importing habits from other OS’s.

Are you sure you properly designated default apps?

• get info on the file
• change preferred app
• make sure you check the box indicating change for all

Edit: then close the info panel, of course.

Ignore the downvotes. Mint or Debian or Fedora can be great on Macs earlier than 2016.

Apple abandons macOS* updates after a computer is over 7 years old or so.

At that point Mint or similar distros are your primary option for running a secure OS on excellent but aging hardware.**

Sleep/wake, battery management, and trackpad don’t work quite as well, and you usually have to install the Broadwell wifi driver manually, and the camera will be fussy, but otherwise it is the better OS for an old Mac.

* (no longer called OSX since they left v.10 behind a long time ago).

** you can force a later macOS onto older models, but it’s not very stable.

Really worthwhile read!

It’s a bullshit argument from a linguistic standpoint, not just political.

Like imperial/metric and fahrenheit/celsius, we just use the z vs s variably. Some people even switch between spellings for some words. I’m not sure there are even idiomatic or de facto rules about usage, since it seems to be an area of uncertainty for many.

groak is your password too?

Ohhh you definitely want to be running TimeMachine backups in macOS. It’s run from the system settings app, and once you connect a freshly formatted drive it will likely suggest that you use that drive.

It backs up your entire system and data, then makes hourly versions, and keeps long-term weeklies. You can restore individual files or rather easily restore the entire backup.

It’s one of the few things apple does really well.

Yes, go ahead. The parties in question in the article all live under the yoke of the DMCA, with vigorously litigious corporations patrolling the streets.

Think of it as a gateway drug, lol

I know that there are some complicated configurations that you could use to get the audio feed from display port to your receiver, like running it through a splitter that will strip out the audio and send it to your receiver separately. I’m pretty sure there are no mainstream AV receivers that will do what you want because the market is split between home theatre and PC, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and manufacturers need to be convinced there’s a market for it.

In that situation, I would connect the output device, in this case a PC, directly to the TV/monitor with DP, and run optical audio from either the TV or the output device to receiver.

You lose some of the integrated control that HDMI-CEC gives you, so get a good universal remote that can adapt to this set up and get one-button source switching back.

The class war got into people’s heads as ‘working - middle- upper’ but now it’s really ‘worker - owner’.

Do you need a paycheque, or do your assets alone feed you?

RTFA, FFS

Al is a pretty good guy but he can’t be everywhere. Maybe he can use some A.I. to help!

Yes, and that’s exactly what everyone forgets about automating cognitive work. Knowledge or skill needs to be intergenerational or we lose it.

If you have no junior developers, who will turn into senior developers later on?

It was off, it’s LTT. It was intertainment with some interview.

Still, L.T. had fascinating things to say, and a refreshing down-to-earth outlook on things like data storage (keeps no files really, just uploads to git and lets others worry about whether it’s worth saving or not), a.i. (important, somewhat inevitable, overblown hype, horrible business practices), and how he geeks out playing with hardware designs for things that are completely out of his expertise so it’s low stress (e.g. guitar effect pedals but he doesn’t play).

Idiomatic usage of ‘intuitive’ regarding interfaces breaks down into

1. ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or

2. ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

It’s the underlying crux of the entire series, and even Foundation too. The Zeroeth law requires a massive war to develop it and still doesn’t solve the problem.

Usually just air quotes right. Well since people caught on to the ‘echo’ dog whistle of 3 brackets some racists moved to quotes too. I was just checking, so nvm, don’t let them try to steal that the way they did with the ok hand gesture.