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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 #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And then does magic when you want to expose a volume from your macos host to your docker container. And that magic can slow down things. They improved things recently though [1]

[1] https://www.docker.com/blog/speed-boost-achievement-unlocked...

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

#52
post #21

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).…

As I say in the post, I have RSI and it hurts to use my index finger. Both Linux & Windows let me remap buttons. So is MacOS only for people in perfect health?

RSI issues are also a reason why I won't ever use a macbook - the only laptop input method that doesn't hurt me after a few hours of use is a trackpoint.

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

#54

> Focus Follow Mouse > I have multiple screens and multiple windows. I want to be able to hover over a new one and start interacting with it without clicking. Having attempted to implement this once, doing this is nontrivial. If you try to focus anything under your mouse then you can end up changing the selection state of tables and controls, which is generally undesirable.

Have you tried AutoRaise?

https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

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

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

I understand, and even appreciate, that they don't let too much customization on their default programs. But why can't you run a different program? It makes no sense.

The window manager is definitely a "default program" that is probably tightly integrated in various points of the OS. AFAIK, you can't even use the OS without having Finder running (not the actual window "Finder" but the process) as it's also involved in lots of things, like the desktop and such.

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

#57

> Focus Follow Mouse > I have multiple screens and multiple windows. I want to be able to hover over a new one and start interacting with it without clicking. Having attempted to implement this once, doing this is nontrivial. If you try to focus anything under your mouse then you can end up changing the selection state of tables and controls, which is generally undesirable.

This is about _window_ focus, not focus on individual controls within a window. The former is useful (I tried GNOME for a while but went back to i3 for, among other things, this reason), but the latter is (as you found out) probably not a good idea.

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

#58

pointy elbows, doesn't work underwater. can't map the magsafe port to left mouse button.

Yikes, one must be deeply suffering from Stockholm syndrome to think that wanting to do things differently makes someone unreasonable.

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

#59
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.

I don't think the user is aware that you can change the entire display scale for readability if you need to. There are also numerous mouse button remapping utilities out there.

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

#60
post #48

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,…

For realtime audio, Pipewire basically solves this problem on Linux. It appears as JACK, Pulse and ALSA to client programs and allows seamless interop between all of them. It's slowly landing in mainstream Linux distros as the default audio solution.

This means that without any special setup, both real-time audio software (which uses JACK) and 'normal' software (Pulse, ALSA) can co-operate on a single system with a single digital patchbay between all of them and the system output devices (including Bluetooth audio devices).

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