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Absolutely. I keep falling into these traps. I just got a Mac, and it's terrible at these. It's notorious for hiding the scrollbar, but why would they make it hard to find the thing I just downloaded? Or a screenshot I just took? I can open it, but that doesn't take me to the file location so I can actually do something with it. Although Steam is by far the worst at that.

It's almost as if we didn't learn anything about UX in the past 30 years.

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UX was mastered 31 years ago. The intervening years have been a nosedive.

What I hate most about mac is the opinionated design. I liked it in the days of Tiger and Leopard but what I didn't like since was some designer deciding that I have to use my computer in a different way every year and forcing changes on me. Opinionated design only works when you as a user have no opinions or if you are a follower.

Personally I do have strong opinions how my computer should work and I'm not a follower. I could never work in an army and take orders either.

The problem was that early OS X used to be pretty aligned with my own opinions so I didn't notice the issues with this model. But after the Mac becoming more frustrating every year I finally dumped it and now I'm really happy with KDE which I can configure how I want.

> why would they make it hard to find the thing I just downloaded?

In… the downloads folder? How much more obvious does the location need to be?

You can also drag the downloads and desktop folders to the dock, sort the resulting lists by date added and then you always have your latest screenshot and downloads handy.

What do you mean about Steam?

Steam screenshots end up somewhere deep in the steam folder structure. Not simply in an easily accessible downloads or screenshots directory in my home dir.

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