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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)

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Post by dpatterbee »

IshKebab wrote: post #12

Some 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).…

> * Set mouse acceleration (you used to be able to but they removed the option and now you can only set sensitivity).

Using MacOS is such a miserable experience for this exact reason. I'm sure it's fine when using the trackpad but trying to use a mouse on macos is borderline torture.

I fundamentally do not understand why anybody would ever want mouse acceleration. It just makes it harder to use the mouse.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by idontwantthis »

AlexSW wrote: post #35
smackeyacky wrote: post #14

Add: run a docker container without an entire VM.

Not sure whether you know something I don't but I'm not aware of any VM when I'm running Docker containers directly on my Mac?

Docker machine uses qemu to make a Linux VM to run docker containers in.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by samizdis »

uuyi wrote: post #27

These are all fairly trivial. There's a much larger list of things that Ubuntu says it can do but does such a bad job of it that I can't use it. Oh and Lightroom, Pixelmator and Excel don't work on Ubuntu.

Trivial to you, and many people, perhaps. But this user is citing problems such as being able to read the menu, and to accommodate for RSI. So in this user's case, these things are sort of blockers.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by nicoburns »

My biggest bug bears with macOS:

- No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All a new workspace achieves is making it difficult for me to switch between this app and my other apps! (individual apps can implement this, and some like VLC do, but most apps don't)

- No native support for containerisation. Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally everything else is super speedy, they're really slow.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by jzellis »

You forgot "spend three days trying to get a Bluetooth keyboard to pair at boot every time". :-D

I love Ubuntu and I use it with Cinnamon desktop on the daily alongside my Mac, and I love the customizability, but I also like just being able to turn on my laptop and do stuff without having to fiddle with a terminal unless I want to, or install a new app by just downloading a thing and clicking on it and agreeing that, yes, I'm trying to do this thing. And that's just not quite there with Ubuntu yet.

(Also, trying to do music stuff is mostly a nightmare of JACK and Alsa headaches. I can write generative music code in at least two languages, but I just wanna plug my guitar in and record things and use plug-ins without having to recompile shit.)

There's places for both. Use whatever works for you.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by Reason077 »

> "I find the menu bar at the top too small. The only way to do this on MacOS is to lower the resolution of the entire screen!"

System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Menu bar size

(This doesn't let you change the menu bar to a different font, but it does make the whole menu bar including the font bigger, without changing the screen resolution, which seems to be what the author wants?)

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