The biggest change was that I started using Safari again. I have a fraught relationship with the new Spotlight, by the way: it’s much more powerful, showing movie times and map results and topical Wikipedia pages, but it can’t do a simple Google search, and it would rather show me emails that reference Taylor Swift than actually help me play "Out Of The Woods." Spotlight is so close to right, but I still use Alfred every time. Spotlight doesn’t pop up in the corner of your screen, but in the center, in a gray window like Alfred. Some are small: there’s no "full-screen" button in the top right corner of the window, you just press the green button in the stoplight menu. Yosemite only changed a few things about the way I use my Mac. Yosemite is a new look - but it’s not a new idea. But there’s still a dock at the bottom of my screen, still a menu bar at the top, still the same settings and options and gestures and keyboard shortcuts. It’s a cleaner, calmer, more balanced look that I like a lot, even if I did change my background immediately. (Of course, that’s partly because a lot of apps haven’t even updated to support translucency yet. I stopped noticing it almost immediately. I’d love to say I have feelings about the translucency in the sidebars and menu bars of Apple’s apps, which shows a bit of the app behind whatever you’re looking at, but I don’t. All the fonts were suddenly a little smaller and a lot more Helvetica Neue (and also pretty pixelated unless I was on a Retina screen). After downloading and installing the update (which took about 25 minutes and a little over 5GB of disk space), I had a new wallpaper, the mountain face against pink and purple sky. It’s just that the new look feels familiar, only slightly more refined, like the finished version of what came before. That’s not to say it doesn’t look different - it does. It took about six hours for me to mostly forget that I was using Yosemite. Finally, in a battle of the two Lions, OS X 10.7 beat out Mountain Lion with 53.5% of the votes.Our original preview of Yosemite, from July. Lion's path to victory first began by crushing Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar with nearly 76% of the popular vote and then defeating Snow Leopard by a 54-to-46 spread. That gave Catalina a berth to the Final Round and on to face OS X 10.7 Lion. Monterey proved no match for Catalina, who won 54.8% of the votes. Then in the Conference Finals, Catalina faced an unlikely contender, macOS Monterey, which started the competition as the 7th seed but had risen through the ranks as the true underdog of the bracket. In Round II, Catalina faced another crowd favourite, Mojave, and squeaked out a narrow victory with 51.8% of the votes. In the first round, it handily beat OS X El Capitan by a nearly 20-point margin (59.2% to 40.8%). Big Sur was the 5th most voted on wallpaper, but that quickly dropped to 7th for Monterey and 10th (least popular) for Ventura.Īnd there you have it after 44 days of competition, 1,230 votes were cast in the final round of The Great macOS Wallpaper Bracket to determine which wallpaper, Lion or Catalina, would take the top prize as the greatest macOS wallpaper of all time.Īnd the winner, with a 51.5% share of the votes (633), is macOS Catalina! OS X 10.7 Lion was defeated in a narrow margin, earning 597 votes, or just 36 votes fewer than Catalina.Ĭatalina's Path to Victory began by receiving 86.9% favorability amongst voters as one of the top eight California wallpapers. I was also startled to see Apple's abstract wallpapers not only far from being the most popular but also that their popularity dropped with each successive iteration. macOS 13 (Ventura) received 556 votes (68%)Īgain I was surprised to see so many people show their support for Apple's landscape wallpapers, with the notable exception of people throwing particular shade at High Sierra's wallpaper (9th place). Here are the results of the polling, ranked from most to least popular:ġ. Eight hundred eighteen respondents answered the survey.
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