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I wonder if MacOS is also going down the drain - obviously not as fast as Windows - but I believe it doesn't feel as smooth - it feels always more bloated with every updates and I find myself having to install more and more custom little tools for everything:

- Cleaning my drive from unwanted files → One app

- Organizing files based on type → another app

- A good voice-to-text → another app

- A better launcher → another app

- An incredible terminal → another app

I mean is this the way it's supposed to be? Wasn't the whole point - unwrap the macbook, load up Mac OS and LFG?

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I don't wonder. I used it for years, and there's no doubt it was getting worse.

At this point both Windows and OSX are rent seeking, squeezing as much money as they can out of their users.

yes and the nonstop notification popups for some iCloud nonsense really drive me crazy.

Please tell of of this better launcher? Spotlight is so bad these days. I used to be able to pull up the calculator with cmd+space..ca[enter] but lately it grabs some other completely ridiculous thing like some random file that throws an error instead. Yeah Apple that’s what I wanted, I wanted to open the Caltable.inf file, or worse if parallels is open it picks the windows calculator first before the macOS calculator? Wtf!

Probably Alfred? It's been a while since I used a Mac, but back then Alfred was one of the reasons to get a Mac.

https://www.alfredapp.com/

Yeah though spotlight was never meant as a program launcher. KDE has a nice thing that is just that.

I’ve been using Raycast[0] to replace spotlight. Spotlight index kept randomly losing my /Applications dir, and like 90% of what I use spotlight for is Cmd + space > type in the name of the app I want to switch to/open. So it was a constant annoyance.

They have some AI stuff that they try to push on you during the install, but it can all be disabled so day to day it doesn’t bother you.

0: https://www.raycast.com/

I had to install an app just to get smooth scrolling to work with my mouse. On a Mac! Apple practically invented smooth scrolling! It's like no one gives a shit about user experience anymore.

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