A Different Default again
Dec. 15th, 2015 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerBuying a new iMac for the sake of its USB 3 ports (which do make backing things up much faster) and high-resolution display also happened to be an expensive yet definite way of upgrading to the latest operating system. Intent on getting over "fear, uncertainty, and doubt", I installed the system 10.11.1 upgrade as soon as I had the computer set up, but as I got to using it I did notice that whenever I closed a Finder window and then opened it again it had scrolled back up to the top, or almost so. As I turn off the "toolbar" and operate in an old-fashioned way by having a new window open each time I double-click on a folder, this might not have hit me as often as it might for someone who uses the "back" command, but I did get to wondering if this was to be considered a new default behaviour when I saw the computers at a local store were doing the same thing. I reminded myself all I had to do was type a few letters to jump to a particular icon, and that dwelling on little things is a recipe for trouble.
When the system 10.11.2 update was released, I waited a few days just in case some subtle problem would start catching people and then installed it, but as I started feeling it out all of a sudden I realised I could close a Finder window and then re-open it to see the icons right where I'd left them. Not dwelling on a little thing is one thing; not having it to dwell on (and getting one sign that "bugs aren't creeping in to defy any potential effort to deal with them") is another. In any case, I do seem to be settling in to the new operating system with its brighter, more stylised icons and new system font, but I can suppose a part of that has to do with the high-resolution display. I saw a comment when the really big iMac first got a "Retina Display" that you ought to avoid looking at it because of the risk of becoming dissatisfied with your current display; having set up my previous iMac again to prepare it for handing on in the family, I can understand it better now.
When the system 10.11.2 update was released, I waited a few days just in case some subtle problem would start catching people and then installed it, but as I started feeling it out all of a sudden I realised I could close a Finder window and then re-open it to see the icons right where I'd left them. Not dwelling on a little thing is one thing; not having it to dwell on (and getting one sign that "bugs aren't creeping in to defy any potential effort to deal with them") is another. In any case, I do seem to be settling in to the new operating system with its brighter, more stylised icons and new system font, but I can suppose a part of that has to do with the high-resolution display. I saw a comment when the really big iMac first got a "Retina Display" that you ought to avoid looking at it because of the risk of becoming dissatisfied with your current display; having set up my previous iMac again to prepare it for handing on in the family, I can understand it better now.