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The Finder doesn't even allow me to middle-click to open a folder in a new tab, it's horrible. I miss KDE Dolphin.
I see what's wrong. I just don't have middle mouse button - problem solved.
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I see what's wrong. I just don't have middle mouse button - problem solved.
You're probably joking sarcastically, but in case you aren't, you can click both sides of the track pad or three finger tap (if supported) to preform a middle click.
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The keyboard layout is absolutely non standard in the UK but it's absolutely standard apple in the UK. Appreciate that may be off if you're trying to adopt but I'm so used to this layout after many, many years. I'm using a 2007 iMac keyboard and it matches exactly to my 2019 16". For example, the alt 3 for hash is so naturally embedded I reach for it when using windows machines. I have to do weird rebinds on my windo…
That's nice that you have trained yourself, but it's crappy enough that MacWorld had to write an article explaining how to use the keyboard. https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/hashtag-mac-3688542/
If they suddenly changed the keyboard layout I and many other long time users would be absolutely infuriated. This is just the correct keyboard layout for me.
Just vm’s? No syscall emulation?
Microsoft abandoned syscall emulation with WSL2. The differences between Linux and XNU might be less problematic, since it's a Unix derivative. But as Wine shows, it takes a lot of work and you still get a suboptimal, buggy experience.
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It's going to be pretty bad because it's using SSHFS - but your mileage may vary. For Docker Desktop, hopefully Justin Cormack will stop by and answer.
SSHFS is about the worst FS in existence. I would only recommend it for a temporary file transfer here and there, but it's nowhere near stable enough to use it like a regular FS.
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> Homebrew's very up to date, ... and has an incredible number of supported packages Package stats from Repology seems to contradict this claim: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs It's not bad, but it's not the best either. Not even close. > including tons of closed-source stuff Homebrew doesn't ship any proprietary formulae at all . They have a clear policy against it: > We don’t like binary formulae > Our pol…
> Homebrew doesn't ship any proprietary formulae at all. They have a clear policy against it: And yet, I can install Sublime Text, Slack, and others through it out of the box. I just checked a couple more, Figma's there. Microsoft Office. Steam. You used to have to run a one-liner to enable casks (just one, not one for every damn vendor like with apt) but not anymore.
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To move files between machines they own?
Novice users use flash drives or emails, they don't set up ssh servers. In fact, I've never seen a non-power user set up an ssh server except maybe if you count a consumer NAS (which usually show up as networked drives). To that point, I'd be willing to bet money that any user that even has access to an ssh server they'd want to use either has the technical know how to set up those tools themselves, or has an IT pers…
Other OSes lacking this is why everyone keeps their data in silos.
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I don't feel that I have to fight the operating system at all. In order to get the package manager and a modern version of coreutils you have to run three commands: $ sudo xcode-select --install $ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" $ brew install coreutils The upside is getting a system where most of what I need works out of the box with fairly sensible def…
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, and I say this as a Mac fan, but your 3 commands are: - Install a whole IDE, so you can... - Install an unofficial package managar, so you can... - Install coreutils
I thought the reason everyone loved Linux was because you could mix and match components and choose what fits for you. But suddenly "an unofficial package manager" is out of bounds?
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By "drastically different" you mean "has maybe two differences that are not too different to weird stuff manufacturers do to keyboards"? Note: removing # in favor of £ is apparently standard for UK keyboards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...
You should read your own link. We do put the £ where Americans put #, but we don't remove it from the keyboard. 2 differences? Read your link. Back tick is in the wrong place, hash as already discussed is in the wrong place, forward slash is in the wrong place, double quote is in the wrong place, @ is in the wrong place. This isn't about Super being switched with Alt.
Apple doesn't remove it either.
> 2 differences? Read your link.
Windows:
- the extra key is added next to the Enter key to accommodate # (number sign) and ~ (tilde)
- The £ (pound sign) takes the place vacated by the number sign on the 3 key
- @ and " are swapped (to ⇧ Shift+' and ⇧ Shift+2, respectively)
- (the list goes on for another 4 or 5 items)
Apple (emphasis mine):
- The # symbol is replaced by the £ symbol (as on PC keyboards); the # is available by pressing ⌥ Option+3
- The " and @ keys are swapped.
- More recent Apple British keyboards move the backquote/~ key to the left of the Z key and replace it with a section sign (§) and a plus-minus sign (±), respectively.
And that's it.
Well. It's three differences compared to US layout, two of them are basically exactly the same as PC versions.
> Back tick is in the wrong place, hash as already discussed is in the wrong place, forward slash is in the wrong place, double quote is in the wrong place, @ is in the wrong place.
Apart from back tick the rest are consistent with PC layout.