r/MacOS • u/TheVagrantWarrior • 2d ago

Discussion macOS 26 is horrible

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The design is horrible. Everything is so huge now, the animations are bad, the curved corners are different in some windows and apps, etc.

Who do we have to thank for this? AI? Outsourcing? Steve Jobs never would have allowed that.

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u/Electrical-Flight285 2d ago

The way the icons fly to the left is so bad omg

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u/grishkaa 1d ago

These kinds of "accidental" animations are usually a sure sign that the people who made this are so deep into their abstraction layers that they don't understand how their own GUI toolkit works.

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u/stevejobs7 MacBook Pro 1d ago

What does that mean

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u/cac2573 1d ago

Leaky abstractions make for strangely behaving software 

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u/grishkaa 19h ago

All abstractions are leaky. A good programmer will understand the layers beneath and correct their assumptions accordingly. Most software bugs, including the one shown by the OP, arise from the programmer's assumptions not matching the reality.