(A post about terminal commands on that modify the Mac's interface. Use at your own risk!)
Heck. These commands shared on Reddit (I think this is the first time I've ever linked to Reddit) will have made the next three months much more pleasant. Using these values in particular effectively reverts the inset sidebar to a full pane, and reduces the window corner radius to match Sequoia. It seems to work for the built-in Mac apps that don't customize their windows too much, which is most of them.
I'm so glad Golden Gate will "canonically" re-introduce these traits. But it's perhaps three months to then, and I don't dabble in Mac betas. I've been using the "Sequoia" values for a week or two, and I've mostly forgotten the daily woes of the past year. Tantamount to a miracle.
Other embracings this year include that other terminal command to hide many of the glyphs in the menus, and using the well-refined free version of LaunchOS. It's extraordinary to spend a year resorting to third parties and hacks to make a Mac feel like a Mac; thank goodness it is merely a swerve.
Which makes me wonder about these commands, which I wasn't aware had surfaced until Tahoe 26.5. Their effects are not clunky – you can use them to fine-tune the window corner radius to any value, including ridiculous ones. It looks like there's another value for convolution, adjusting shading. It's honestly got me wondering whether the intent is for the final version of Tahoe, with which the last generation of Intel Macs will be paired through their final run loops, to expose a setting that disables things like the floating sidebar. It would be unprecedented in the history of Mac operating systems, but so is this kind of swerve.
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