Whenever an app (especially but not exclusively on an external SSD) crashes, I am able to force quit it from the dock. However, even after force quitting, the window stays on screen and refuses to close no matter what I do.
A mouse over on the window will result in the rainbow wheel. I am having to logout and log back in for the windows to disappear.
Any help here?
From my own experience with Apple Silicon, if I need to force quit an app (usually non-native ones) then there’s residual junk left somewhere that mac os treats as unavailable/reserved so a restart is necessary to clear it out.
Force quitting? Be restarting.
I’ll sell t-shirts.
I’m using M2 air at my work and it has become really sluggish after updating to Tahoe. IT team said there could be some apps using high resources but nothing shows up in activity monitor and also I haven’t really installed anything new after the update.
Apple has fully embraced testing code in production.
macOS Tahoe, what a joke.
@CrimeMouse @sakana this used to happen earlier in Sequoia too. I can’t help but feel MacOS isn’t designed to handle external hardware all that well.
It is quite likely that what @rsaeon has said is true.
Did you try stopping it (and related processes) from Activity Monitor? That usually does the trick for me in these instances.
EDIT: I keep forgetting to try this but if you use Raycast (highly recommend you do), there’s an extension called Kill Process that makes it easier/faster to do this.
Two questions:
How do you discover new and cool software today?
How did you find out about raycast specifically?
A younger me would read magazines and blogs to find the coolest utilities and programs but neither exist today.
They are still there but they have become useless and no different from news. There are blogs but Google has made it really hard to discover by limiting the search results to only popular sites and prematurely showing “end of search”.
There is no random chance discovery of good software unlike the old days. You have to have an idea of the problem you are trying to solve and look at specialized places like specific subreddits or discord.
Couple of years ago, I had a need for easy window management on mac, found Rectangle on reddit I think and it’s good enough for my needs. I don’t know if something better has come along or not.
Thank god I haven’t updated it yet. did you update?
For me reading still works. Not magazines much (I still real quite a few of them, like PC Pro, etc) but also tech websites, and forums like this one, and reddit. Along with websites like alternativeto.net
Lots of fun!
But mostly, I come across stuff when I am not looking for them. I mess up things, start looking for solutions and in that process stumble upon nuggets!
The update specifically did not break anything. This has been a problem with mac since before the update and the one before that.
Mac os works like linux if you are familiar with the latter
you have two options to do a proper process kill :
Use the activity monitor , select the process and hit the kill button
Open terminal, list processes with ps -ax
note the pid for the process.. if you are having trouble finding the process, pipe and grep ( e.g. ps ax | grep textedit
kill -9 pid
r/MacApps is a good place to find recommendations and new apps.
For the first: I still come across many apps I like that I didn’t know existed earlier. But majority of the apps I use these days are the same ones I think I discovered when I first got a MacBook at work. I just googled, found reddit threads and also found GitHub awesome lists: GitHub - jaywcjlove/awesome-mac:  Now we have become very big, Different from the original idea. Collect premium software in various categories. which helped tremendously. I was like a kid in a candy store back then — eager to dig in, hack around and find the best setup.
Raycast specifically: I guess I knew about Alfred which was also popular at the time for macOS w.r.t automations and as a better Spotlight alternative. But it didn’t look great and it was paid. Raycast came to the scene and I got to know via Twitter back then. Raycast looked very promising out of the gate, was exactly the kind of design and native feel macOS needed and was fast. Naturally, they became a top app.
Which brings me to the last point: Twitter (RIP) and now Bluesky. I follow many frontend engineers, app devs and design folks and other people around Apple ecosystem. If there is a hot new app, chances are high I’ll know about it during my daily scrolls (lot less than it used to be). I browse Hacker News daily and some macOS apps pop up there as well.
Don’t sweat it that much though. I’m sure I’m woefully behind w.r.t the “hot new stuff”, esp on AI department 
. As long as you are at peace with your workflows and can get things done, no biggie. There are always new apps every month.
You can check out my /uses page if you wanna, where I list few other apps I use:
I did but I rolled back to macOS 15.7 because of the bugs and general sluggishness.
