![]() ![]() The app says the song is playing, but you don’t hear anything. It just makes no sense.Imagine that you’re working from home on your MacBook or trying to get some study time in – so you launch the Music app on your laptop, hoping to rock out to something that will help you focus. Still, pressing the volume buttons really should not influence volume balance. I can't imagine why a program would need access to the volume controls however, and I don't remember this ever being an issue in Windows or Linux, which begs the question, why would MacOS be different?Īpple appears to have acknowledged that they got a bug causing the volume balance to shift, but they have so far not fixed it. This is pure speculation, but I can imagine that, somehow, Apple has not properly restricted volume controls, so programs may sometimes hijack the controls and mess up the volume balance. I really wish Mac and Windows would allow us to run open source desktop environments, and thereby get rid of all their ridiculous vendor/brand related issues. ![]() If you want a perfect desktop environment, you should try out KDE in Linux – it's open source :-) While mac has a lot of such issues, it is actually not alone for example, my Lenovo laptop has a huge Caps Lock popup in the center of the screen, and Microsoft recently degraded the desktop experience in Windows by locking the taskbar to the bottom of the screen, plus, doing taskbar right click -> open is sometimes broken in Windows. I could carry on, but let me end with that :-P It is so sensitive that I have made a lot of unintentional mistakes when wanting to scroll horizontally, that is, before I figured out how to disable this crap feature. When using the touchpad, a lot of gestures need to be turned off because they get in the way – of course, nothing new in this regard, as that's basically the same on Windows and Linux too – but the absolutely horrendous feature of using left/right swipes to navigate back/forward in the browser, or even worse yet, open up the MacOS widgets menu, is just mind boggling annoying. But, the horrendousness does not end at that, because you also can not find a nice drop-in replacement file manager like you can for your favorite gnu/linux distribution.Ħ. It also has a ridiculous smiley as an Icon, so it looks like it is a joke – or, Apple is just mocking the user, because they know how bad the Finder file manager is compared to decent file managers in Windows and Linux. The Finder app does not have a proper location indicator or address bar, so it is severely difficult to navigate. You can not use "cut" on files in a directory this is a useful and intuitive feature in Windows and Linux systems that allows users to cut files from one directory, and paste them in another, without needing to drag and drop.ĥ. The "cut" feature works contrary to what users expect. A lot of characters are not properly marked on the keyboard, and you have to figure out their placement on your own. ![]() There is no Delete key on mac, which prevents users from quickly selecting files in a directory and simply hitting delete to remove them there's probably a way to create a shortcut key for it, but I have not bothered to figure out how.ģ. Caps Lock has an annoying default delay on mac, and I had to install a third-party application just to re-map the caps lock key and remove the delay.Ģ. I have a long list of similar minor issues specific to MacOS, some of which are seemingly intentional design rather than outright bugs.ġ. Why this is even an issue for so long is mind boggling to say the least. There is also an open source program called Ballast that you can install to fix the problem permanently this program works by quietly monitoring the audio balance in the background. Just open settings on your Mac and center the volume balance. The discussions I found are at least a couple of years old. If you Google the problem you will find limited chatter about it apparently having been an issue for more than a decade. Is this really it? I recently noticed a strange issue on MacBook Pro that had caused the volume balance to shift towards the right, seemingly, on its own. This can happen if you rapidly press the volume up or down keys while the computer's microprocessor is under heavy load. In some cases the audio balance may unexpectedly drift towards the left or right channel. ![]()
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