The ease of Windows Clipboard with Win+V; Windows Powertoys (particularly Find my mouse spotlight mode for presentation by pressing Ctrl twice)
Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?
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#12Notepad++, I really want that software on my Mac.
You might want to have a look at TextMate. Not sure if it’s a full replacement for Notepad++, but it’s quite nice.
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#13The ease of Windows Clipboard with Win+V; Windows Powertoys (particularly Find my mouse spotlight mode for presentation by pressing Ctrl twice)
Powertoys is a game-changer!
Re: Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?
#14IDM - Internet Download Manager -- Only available for Windows, never saw a proper alternative for Linux/MacOS with the same reliability and browser integration. Though no longer download videos/files enough to complain about it.
I end up using yt-dlp on macOS/Linux to download videos if needed. It’s worked on pretty much everything I’ve tried it on so far. Though admittedly not at seamless as a button being injected into the page itself.
Still on youtube-dl here - didn't know yt-dlp was the actively maintained fork.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I end up using yt-dlp on macOS/Linux to download videos if needed. It’s worked on pretty much everything I’ve tried it on so far. Though admittedly not at seamless as a button being injected into the page itself.
Still on youtube-dl here - didn't know yt-dlp was the actively maintained fork.
Does youtube-dl still work? There seems to be a cat and mouse game with these things. I won't update it for a while and it will break, but it always works again after I update. I figured without active maintenance youtube-dl would be pretty useless by now.
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#16Industry-specific applications often run only on Windows: Small organizations make them, limiting capacity to support more platforms, and their clients are businesses and therefore usually use Windows. For example, I'd expect that most software for running accountants' offices would run only on Windows. A big exception is vendor-hosted browser-based software, which can run on more platforms. Some features could still…
Yeah one example is you can’t run Altium on macOS. You can run eagle which is similar but not the same thing as altium and has no compatibility with it.
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#17The only thing I really miss at work after moving from Windows to macOS is AutoHotKey. I tried Hammerspoon. I thought having a more normal language (lua) would make it easier, but it felt more like fewer batteries were included, which made the ramp up seem steeper. Trivial things in AHK seemed like they needed a lot of extra supporting functions to enable it in HS. Some rose colored glasses could be involved here as…
I came here to say this, but you beat me to it. :D
Re: Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?
#18The ease of Windows Clipboard with Win+V; Windows Powertoys (particularly Find my mouse spotlight mode for presentation by pressing Ctrl twice)
MacOS has a frustrating tendency to depend on external utilities for basic functions, but I've found Maccy to be as good as if not better than Windows clipboard manager. You can summon it with a keybinding or click on an icon in the menubar. It's really good and one of the first things I install on Mac.
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#19Most of the killer apps I use on Linux are either free versions of Mac apps (eg. Planify) or server software that will never run like-native (eg. Docker).
Hmm just looked up Planify, and despite being an open source project, it has no links to the source code, I had to sieve through the change log and find an issue link to find it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still on youtube-dl here - didn't know yt-dlp was the actively maintained fork.
Does youtube-dl still work? There seems to be a cat and mouse game with these things. I won't update it for a while and it will break, but it always works again after I update. I figured without active maintenance youtube-dl would be pretty useless by now.
Couldn't relate more.
I built this Chrome extension using similar logic to youtube-dl: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio-only-youtube/...
Eventually couldn't keep up with maintenance and leave it, sigh.