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/

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@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.

GitHub - wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace: FlashSpace is a blazingly fast virtual workspace manager for macOS ⚡

FlashSpace is a blazingly fast virtual workspace manager for macOS ⚡ - wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace

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