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From the -2from beauty to function - very clever-+ department:
Title: Benjamin Button reviews macOS
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:27:31 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/143415/benjamin-button-reviews-macos/


ApplerCOs first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell rCo the visual user interface rCo was jarringly bad. Without much experience in desktop UX, ApplerCOs
first OS looked like a Fisher-Price toy: heavily rounded corners, mismatched colors, inconsistent details and very low information density. Obviously, the tool was designed mostly for kids or perhaps light users or elderly people.

Credit where credit is due: Apple had listened to their users and the next version rCo macOS Sequoia rCo shipped with lots of fixes. Border radius was heavily reduced, transparent glass-like panels replaced by less transparent ones, buttons made more serious and less toyish. Most system icons made more serious, too, with focus on more detail. Overall, it seemed like the 2nd version was a giant leap from infancy to teenage years.
ra2 Rakhim Davletkali[1]

A top quality operating systems shitpost.

Links:
[1]: https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos (link)
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On 25 Sep 2025 14:19:57 GMT, Retrograde wrote:

Credit where credit is due: Apple had listened to their users and
the next version rCo macOS Sequoia rCo shipped with lots of fixes.
Border radius was heavily reduced, transparent glass-like panels
replaced by less transparent ones, buttons made more serious and
less toyish. Most system icons made more serious, too, with focus on
more detail. Overall, it seemed like the 2nd version was a giant
leap from infancy to teenage years.

ThatrCOs just a review of the GUI, not the OS.

The 1990s called; they want this concept of tying the GUI inextricably
into the OS back.
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On 2025-09-25, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 25 Sep 2025 14:19:57 GMT, Retrograde wrote:

Credit where credit is due: Apple had listened to their users and
the next version ??? macOS Sequoia ??? shipped with lots of fixes.
Border radius was heavily reduced, transparent glass-like panels
replaced by less transparent ones, buttons made more serious and
less toyish. Most system icons made more serious, too, with focus on
more detail. Overall, it seemed like the 2nd version was a giant
leap from infancy to teenage years.

That???s just a review of the GUI, not the OS.

The 1990s called; they want this concept of tying the GUI inextricably
into the OS back.

Yeah, I remember having a heated argument back then about this being
stupid with a computer professional who I would have thought would known better. Oh and he thought not having a command line was a good thing,
and the fact that there could only be one user per "personal" computer!
All power to the GUI!!!
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:28:32 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:

On 2025-09-25, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

The 1990s called; they want this concept of tying the GUI inextricably
into the OS back.

Yeah, I remember having a heated argument back then about this being
stupid with a computer professional who I would have thought would known better. Oh and he thought not having a command line was a good thing,
and the fact that there could only be one user per "personal" computer!
All power to the GUI!!!

I admit to having passed through this phase myself.

Yes, I was once a Mac fanatic, too.
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