Things I can do on MacOS which I can't on Ubuntu: Run Logic X and all the AU's.
Things you can't do on Ubuntu: run Apple's app?
Seems a bit disingenuous.
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)
#182Since we are all airing grievances - how about the ability to set different scroll directions for the touchpad and a mouse.
I dunno, I guess my brain is just wired differently from what apple expects.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
The keyword here is "MTP device". Some phones mount as mass storage device and works out of the box, but MTP requires extra software/drivers.
What’s the difference? Do you get full access to the phone file system when it’s mounted as a MTP device?
Older versions of Android used to allow mounting as a mass storage device, but there are several problems with this:
- You can't allow apps on the phone access to the filesystem at the same time as it is mounted as a mass storage device (because you may corrupt the FS).
- It doesn't work with full-disk encryption used by newer Android versions, because your computer doesn't have the key (and the key is probably stored somewhere in the TPM of your phone, encrypted by your password).
- It requires the computer to support the FS used by the phone, which means necessarily using something that Windows/macOS supports (which mostly limits it to FAT/exFAT/NTFS)
So starting from Android... 5 or so? you can't mount as mass storage anymore. This probably consists of 99.5%+ of currently functioning Android phones.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#184My 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 eve…
> Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally everything else is super speedy, they're really slow. Either you're using Docker for Mac which itself is slow on IO mostly due to the macos-linux file share syncing every single fseventsd inotify or you end up running intel images on aarch64, which uses non-virtualizing qemu to emulate the foreign CPU (see github.com/tonistigii/binfmt)…
Or they could do what windows did. Support windows docker for whatever use case that supports (never used it) and creating WSL which has Linux roots deep in the OS. I find WSL docker works great for development. Certainly wouldn’t use it in production.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#185My 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 eve…
> Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally everything else is super speedy, they're really slow. Either you're using Docker for Mac which itself is slow on IO mostly due to the macos-linux file share syncing every single fseventsd inotify or you end up running intel images on aarch64, which uses non-virtualizing qemu to emulate the foreign CPU (see github.com/tonistigii/binfmt)…
> Either you're using Docker for Mac which itself is slow on IO mostly due to the macos-linux file share syncing every single fseventsdinotify
If you haven't tried the new VirtioFS accelerated directory sharing in Docker for Mac, it makes a _huge_ difference to I/O performance of mounted volumes.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
I don't mind the animation, I actually really like the animations in macOS. I just don't want it to take a full second to switch the active window. "Reduce motion" keeps the full-second delay but replaces the nice animation with a less nice fade animation, which is kind of the opposite of what I want.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#187I 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.
Well my thinking is that homelessness shouldn't be a thong in a first world country, and but this'solution' is like making homelessness illegal and declaring that you solved the problem.
Clearly the appropriate solution would be to somehow make sure that I never need to force close the application, but the damn thing won't even let me restart if some app has hung (I am looking at you MS teams!)
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#188Does focus follows mouse actually work on Wayland?
https://www.google.com/search?q=focus+follows+mouse+wayland was inconclusive.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#189Since we are all airing grievances - how about the ability to set different scroll directions for the touchpad and a mouse. I dunno, I guess my brain is just wired differently from what apple expects.
It might or might not be what you are looking for but it’s possible to charge the scrolling direction on the trackpad preferences.
It’s defaulted to “natural” something and it’s literally the first setting I change when I reinstall macOS
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#190My 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 eve…
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…
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