> Why does it try to pretend like there is no filesystem
I've had sane settings for macos for years and migrated with them.
But I've set up a fresh machine recently and I will say the default settings for macos have changed. There are a lot of annoying "recent apps" and "recent files" and non-filesystem things in sidebars that I keep banging my head against.
It takes a while to set it up to do just simple files and folders.
I do keep applications and utilities in the dock, and set that up as:
I've had sane settings for macos for years and migrated with them.
But I've set up a fresh machine recently and I will say the default settings for macos have changed. There are a lot of annoying "recent apps" and "recent files" and non-filesystem things in sidebars that I keep banging my head against.
It takes a while to set it up to do just simple files and folders.
I do keep applications and utilities in the dock, and set that up as:
so I can just click and pick