Surely there are more meaningful things to spend time thinking about.
Surely you and I could've done something better than writing these comments?
Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
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Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#12Some things in that list are pretty silly (can you really blame Apple for not letting you swap the mouse button order or have the insane focus-follows-mouse option?)
Here are some others anyway:
* Record system audio.
* Control HDMI audio volume (have to use Proxy Audio Driver which is somewhat buggy).
* Set mouse acceleration (you used to be able to but they removed the option and now you can only set sensitivity).
* Disable scroll wheel acceleration (needs a paid third party app).
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#13Things I can do on MacOS which I can't on Ubuntu:
Run Logic X and all the AU's.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#14Add: run a docker container without an entire VM.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#15Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#16I'd pay good money for an 'Always on top' window option on mac.
Can't you just use a different window manager?
> I'd pay good money for an X option on mac.
> Can't you just use a different X?
Lol, this is Apple we're talking about, the company famous for not allowing people to customize things to their own liking (for better or worse).
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#17The only one that sounds painful to me is being unable to access files on an Android device. I know some will disagree...
As I've started to move my collection of music from Spotify to downloading FLAC from Bandcamp, I found that libimobiledevice + ifuse (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS) seems to do the job good enough. Only thing that took some time to figure out is that I need to move the music files into a directory specific for the application I use (VOX) rather than the general "Music" directory, as it seems files are not shared between applications and the music app doesn't have any directory exposed for me to put them in.
I'd love to be able to just plug the damn phone into USB and transferring files like a normal person though, but Apple doesn't seem to want to play that game, sadly...
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#18You could get all those features and more in Windows, plus you have wsl2 :)
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#19I'd pay good money for an 'Always on top' window option on mac.
https://github.com/rwu823/afloat
Also through dock you can configure a window to be on all of the screens
*<-using macos 10.14
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#20Add: run a docker container without an entire VM.
Yes, this is a big one. I run full system containers on my Linux boxen with systemd-nspawn, and on macOS, with their system level protections, I suspect even chroots would be too much to ask. (Maybe it's possible, I just haven't had that many disposable hours to check just how much pain it would be for quite a while.)