Liquid Glass impressions after one day of use:
⁃ Not a fan of the design choices.
⁃ The UI feels too cluttered, not spacious.
⁃ Once familiar things are harder to find/do.
⁃ I love how snappy/quick everything feels.
Edit: I should clarify that this is on mobile. I haven’t updated my laptop yet.
@ramsey Completely coincidentally, I am also one day in (on mobile). Mostly the same.
Under Accessibility, turning on “Reduce Motion”, “Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions", and “Reduce Transparency" make things better for me.
I've had "Reduce Motion" turned on, on desktop, for years—some scrolljackers even respect this, but mostly only Apple. I turned on “Reduce Transparency” on desktop during install, so I've never had to use the mess there.
Feels a lot like design's butterfly keyboard.
@sean I haven’t installed on desktop yet. Will do that sometime this week.
I’ve never turned on Reduced Motion, as I’ve never really been sure what that does. I might give it a try, though.
@ramsey One useful thing (always *for me* when I say this stuff) is that it keeps virtual desktops from flying all over the place and cross-fades them instead. On two big monitors, the flying motion gets to me pretty quickly.
But I originally turned it on because it keeps otherwise-well-behaving web pages that scroll badly from scrolling so badly. For example, the “Happily ever faster." scrolling nonsense is far better here: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
@sean Oh, nice about the scrolling. I’ll check it out.
For the virtual desktops, I use gestures on a trackpad to swipe between them, and I rarely have an issue with them “jumping around.” I also changed the setting so they remain in a fixed order, rather than shuffling based on most recent use.
@ramsey Ah yeah. I realize I'm "weird" for using specific hotkey combinations for this, but it's important for me to have a deterministic “give me my browser” (ctrl-1), “give me my IDE” (ctrl-3) etc. The idea/practice of this changing depending on my current context really ruins my flow.
I can see how it would be less nauseating if you've just made the gesture and the screen follows.
@sean @ramsey I’ve been meaning to try this out:
https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace
I’m resisting upgrades to Liquid Glass OSes for as long as I can.
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