I think you're in the wrong ecosystem if you don't like animations. Over the top animations have been at the core of Apple, I still remember the "drop in the water" animation of OS X Tiger's Dashboard. 20 years ago.

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dzink 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I use their accessibility features to stop all animations I can. Maybe if more people upvote here they will hear us. No point in suffering in silence.

	▲	lynndotpy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with this entirely: > no latency from brain to action is the greatest design you can possibly have. We want to feel one with the machine. But... I used Windows growing up before switching to Linux, and I've been using a Macbook in recent years. Both Windows and Linux can be configured to run with no animation lag, but AFAIK this is just not possible in MacOS. I can't imagine doing anything serious on MacOS with animation log completely interrupting my train of thought or flow state. I'm no Windows fan, but at least circa 2019, I know Windows 10 could be configured to be similarly snappy and free of laggy animations. The greatest sin in MacOS is the immense lag when switching desktops ("Spaces"). It's a baffling design decision, I can't believe it's intentional.

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dijit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think you're overselling it, the minimise? Sure.

But I can't think of a single animation that added a delay to processing on MacOS.

Compare to say, Windows, at least.

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lynndotpy 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Switching desktops on MacOS is a >1 second long animation that blocks input which can't be disabled. It can only be replaced with a fade in/out which is just as long.

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dzink 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Try Liquid Glass on iphone. Absolutely horrible if you don’t turn off all the motion.

	▲	bee_rider 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The changes of Liquid Glass are the what everyone is complaining about, right? Previously they were OK at designing UI.
	▲	fooster 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't find that to be the case.