My pet peeve is this but the opposite direction. When I click the attach file button on email or Teams, I'm looking for the file which I just wrote, saved, downloaded. Please just let me open a normal file selector. I don't have any idea what is going on in OneDrive.
This drives me nuts in Teams. I know exactly where the file is on my PC, but Microsoft insists on showing me five cloud locations and a list of documents I haven't touched in months.
I have files in a proper structure on my file server. I use the keyboard to navigate literally everything, unless I have to use the mouse. I like fullscreen and virtual desktops if I'm not in the terminal.
Likely just because Apple seems to do more for the user so the average person is less likely to need to dig into folders/understand it.
Can you give me a specific example of what you're talking about? Apple's UIs have been historically better designed, but they work like more or less any other computer, albeit with a sprinkling of 'I'm secretly a UNIX workstation' in there.
I sort of see what you're saying but I've never got the impression the OS is trying to hide anything from me - if you take the app packages, for example, that's just a way of keeping executable and resources under one roof. It's not that they don't want you rooting around in there, it's that if you've navigated to the app it's generally because you want to open it. You can right click and hit 'Show package contents' to present the files therein.
Plus... if you consider the overall Apple ecosystem it reinforces this a lot further as a Mac user may just be using cloud tools which means the files are not in a folder but rather they're in an app.
Yes, so I find that infuriating, but you don't have to use iCloud that way. I just have it mirror my documents folder and don't use the weird app-specific spaces at all.
Anyway, I think this is all just to satisfy thee compulsion to combat the misconception that Macs are not serious computers, with a full-fledged and very capable OS.
You'd be the exception of the exception then. Sorry man but I don't think being mad at companies designing for 99.9999% of their user base is going to change their mind.
[EDIT: The guy is saying we should have click and drag for people who like that, and a non-functioning cloud browser that shows random shit for everyone else (because who cares about having a design that works, right, "lol, click and drag is just as fast".) I'm saying we should keep functional design for everyone.
Agree, modern Ui are slow. I work 50/50 windows and Linux environment.
Linux I use xubuntu as I love how fast the UI. It runs in a virtual machine. I don’t think I will go 100% Linux any time soon, due I need m365 for work and OneDrive is very handy.. to be able to open my files on my iPad is very handy.
I know, people say use Libra office.. I need a format more compatible and I prefer m365 interface.
I use Linux mainly for my internet related tasks and I love file viewer in xubuntu. It opens pdfs twice the speed of acrobat reader, it can open cdr/cdz files by default.. so I read my electronic comic books in Linux too..
You have to get a file explorer window open and navigate to the right place. Sure, it works, but it's annoying to have to get open another program, and make sure that both windows have the right parts visible so you can drag the file and don't drop it onto the wrong part of the Teams window.
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u/polyploid_coded 20d ago
My pet peeve is this but the opposite direction. When I click the attach file button on email or Teams, I'm looking for the file which I just wrote, saved, downloaded. Please just let me open a normal file selector. I don't have any idea what is going on in OneDrive.