• AntelopeRoom@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    So glad to finally see this like 5 years after I needed it. Apple doesn’t even make Macs with the touchbar anymore because it sucked.

    • embed_me@programming.dev
      2·
      12 hours ago

      As someone who always confuses the function keys with the alternative functions, it feels like a separate bar with that control would be good.

  • egrets@lemmy.world
    28·
    2 days ago

    Very nice that it’s being supported, but I think the general consensus among MacBook owners was that it was mainly a sales gimmick and not actually that useful? With opinion divided, of course. I can imagine it would be handy for specific apps.

    • watty@lemm.ee
      13·
      2 days ago

      I have a couple touch bar macs, and the touch bar is fine.

      However, I installed Ubuntu on one of my touch bar macs. The keyboard has no physical escape key; that would be on the touch bar. So, my Ubuntu touch bar Mac now has no escape key, which is a bit problematic, so having a fix for that would be cool.

      It is not a big deal for me, since I’m just using it as a server, but it could be a deal breaker for using a touch bar Mac with Linux as a PC.

      • tyler@programming.dev
        3·
        21 hours ago

        This was the major problem with the Mac version too. Esc is such a necessary button and they put it behind a bunch of ridiculous other stuff, like if you open the volume slider, now you have to press off of it and then hit esc, so esc is now two button presses.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      it was great if you really leant into it and installed custom stuff like better touch bar… but apple never really did a lot with it: it could have been really cool, but it never got the attention it needed

  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    163·
    2 days ago

    Now I want a Touch Bar MacBook! It would be so fun to customize the touch bar to my exact needs! Possibly even play doom on it!

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I never had one but I don’t understand why so many people hated it. It seems like a super useful feature.

      • bagelberger@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Something that always bothered me about them was that I could no longer rely on feeling the keys to know which one I was about to press. Had to look at it to be sure, which slows down productivity

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        it was really useful but in typical apple fashion the defaults were pretty simplistic… if you customised it by installing things like better touch bar and spent time integrating it with your workflow, it was great

        but also, i don’t miss it much

      • furikuri@programming.dev
        2·
        2 days ago

        See the current dislike for fully digital display on cars. As they are now they just seem like a imprecise replacement for the function keys that either forces you to constantly look down at them (since the main selling point is that programs can change it at will) or force map them to F1-F12 (meaning you’ve spent extra on the touch-bar for no reason)

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
        32·
        2 days ago

        I had it. I hated it. I wanted real function keys back. I wanted a real escape key. Much happier now to have a laptop with real keys instead of that gimmick.

        The biggest problem with it is that you have to look at it to use it. When I use my laptop I don’t look down at the keyboard, I look at the big screen in front of me. The Touch Bar is basically like a touch screen in a car: it takes away tactile controls and distracts you from driving, the thing you’re supposed to be doing.