![]() "distance from home-row" is a measurement that is consistently touted when referring to vim in particular.Ĭontrol+[ is significantly faster because your hands move independently. Locality is important, in fact it's the largest factor in determining speed of a hotkey's access. ![]() your hands are likely closer to A+L than control and delete. ![]() Yes pressing two keys can be faster than pressing one, because you have two hands, pressing A+L is faster than pressing control+delete, due to locality. So I will be absolutely unsurprised if, ten months from now, I decide to upgrade to Big Sur on a whim, and a couple of minutes in, Mail pops up once more. The fact that they've overhauled the entire interface means it's not the first one - they do have enough resources to make large, sweeping changes to the OS. This is why Snow Leopard's "no new features" tagline was so memorable - it's so rare for a company to outright claim something like that.īut I have to ask myself: why this release? Why fix bugs in Big Sur, but not Catalina or Mojave? For example, the annoying bug where Mail randomly becomes the active application has been floating around for years and still isn't fixed, and there are only two reasons for this: Apple is stretched too thin and can't spare the developers to work on bug fixes, or Apple doesn't care, and is simply willing to let the Mac languish, taking the reputation hit in favour of increased iPhone sales. Mentioning bug fixes inadvertently draws attention to the fact you added bugs claiming increased stability highlights that the OS was once unstable. It's possible they will do both, and I hope they do! I should add the disclaimer that I didn't actually expect them to talk about stability or Catalina's woes, for general corporate "avoid talking about things that make us look bad" reasons.
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