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Apple keeps solving the same old problems. Why are we still talking about how well their buttons behave?

Point to another source that does it as well or better. The problems might have been solved, but it seems the majority of the industry continues to ignore them.

That said, I’ve been using Niri with Noctalia for months now, and I’m continuously delighted by the lack of astonishing behavior.

If anything it seems to be getting worse with each iteration for long time. I guess I'm cautiously optimistic they'll get back closer to their roots with some high-level change, but really don't care that much about it these days either...

Truly. The number of times I’ve been surprised by something on newer macOS versions and thought: “I think this used to go against the human interface guidelines” is crazy. IMO: the first major sign of the downfall was when stealing focus on OS X became common.

Jobs had no problem calling BS on annoying behavior. Unfortunately we’ve completely lost that, and Apple is no longer the bastion of usability that it once was.

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