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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 nyanpasu64 »

kristianp wrote: post #8

The only one that sounds painful to me is being unable to access files on an Android device. I know some will disagree...

In my experience, Android MTP worked semi-reliably on Windows (I'd often encounter "ghost files" which couldn't be renamed or accessed, since MTP and Android's media cache desynced from the underlying Linux filesystem), and often failed entirely on Linux (trying to open the phone hung or caused the Linux MTP daemon to crash immediately or after some time). I much prefer adb push/pull, which has always been rock-solid as long as adb can see your phone.

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

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Post by GekkePrutser »

tinus_hn wrote: post #82
slowmotiony wrote: post #64

I remember I used to be able to force-quit an app by two-finger tapping on the red "close" button. Then suddenly after some update, the feature is gone. I hate when they change shit for no reason and dont think for a second about breaking peoples workflow.

The Apple line of thinking probably is that force closing apps shouldn’t be a part of peoples workflow.

The line of thinking that they decide what should be part of my workflow is exactly what bothers me so much about macOS.

For me it's also ingrained Command-Q into my brain to close an app. Especially because even before this change apps often didn't close when you closed the last window. It's always been like that. Only some apps like System Preferences do it.

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

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Post by lmohseni »

mort96 wrote: post #124
spoiler wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I recently started using an M1 Mac and found the fullscreen workspaces a bit weird (coming from i3), but kinda grew to like it? I got the external trackpad and use gestures a lot (before it was Control + arrows) to navigate the workspaces. My main issue is that all the different "Terminals" have subsets I like on them, but none have all the features I like lol. It's not a big deal though. FWIW I'm trying…

For me, those gestures are next to useless because the animation is just waaay too slow. It's literally a whole second (exactly; I just timed it) of waiting for window focus to switch. The animation is shorter when you're on a model without a 120Hz screen, so it gets a little more bearable there.

In system preferences, under accessibility, there’s an option to “reduce motion” or something that removes that annoying animation. It’s great!

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

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

emendation wrote: post #44

KDE Connect/GS Connect is invaluable to me on Linux. It can just do _so much_.

KDE Connect almost works on Windows, but spawns background D-Bus processes (nitpick) and crashes on sleep-wake (near-dealbreaker). I hope to someday diagnose and fix the problem, but even building KDE Connect is a nonstandard process involving using Craft to install libraries and build the program (rather than building from an IDE directly).

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

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Post by GekkePrutser »

pjmlp wrote: post #106
lixtra wrote: post #87

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What’s the docker equivalent in Apple world to run something in a container?

In the Apple world, people don't care about containers other than application sandboxes.

That is true, but containers are the most pervasive in macOS of all desktop OSes.

That is something I do actually like there. And Apple isn't even forcing developers to do it (unless they want to publish in the app store which most apps I use don't do), just more and more app developers sandbox themselves.

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

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Post by smackeyacky »

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?

OSX is a distant third for a developer who is deploying docker containers. Microsoft and WSL2 are trying, but nothing beats a linux distribution for that.

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

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Post by lupire »

enriquto wrote: post #129
ratww wrote: post #101

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Depends on what you mean by "run a different program". You can't really replace WindowServer on macOS, as it is pretty much macOS itself. macOS is not really as modular as Linux or even Windows. There are things that hook into it to give extra behavior (Helium, Afloat, Magnet, Amethyst, chunkwm, several others in the AppStore), but replacing it is not really practical, I believe.

> You can't really replace WindowServer on macOS, as it is pretty much macOS itself. I find this very foreign. As if a unix system didn't let you change the shell! This is sad to hear, because I'm a happy user of a headless macOS (not set up by me), to which I ssh almost daily for testing purposes, and it is a fairly decent unix system. It has a few idiosyncrasies, sure, but those help to make your pipelines more por…

What window servers can you use on Unix? Wayland still doesn't quite work, after many years.
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