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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 yodelshady »

> Read MTP devices

> Mount an SSH or NFS drive

I know fanboy debates are tiresome, but... I really do struggle to comprehend taking a device that can't do these things seriously as a computer.

As a toy yes, or as a specialised tool for video or audio rendering, which... fair enough. But moving bytes is something any general purpose computing device should be good at. It's almost something you have to actively design out. It's certainly a deliberate, non-budget-constrained choice from Cupertino to be bad at this.

Crap like "should Apple be [scanning for CSAM | scanning for copyright | scanning for anti-CCP | whatever I've almost stopped caring ] before uploading to iCloud?" exists primarily because the devices are so bad at moving bytes around without relying on iCloud.

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

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

kiallmacinnes wrote: post #176
zuhsetaqi wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like saying "Things Linux can't do Mac can: Run macOS without a VM"

While technically, yes, you are correct. It kinda misses the point - developers are more and more working with containers. Doing this on a Mac is an awful experience compared to doing it on Linux (or, Windows - I hear docker + WSL2 is pretty decent - but I've not tried it!)

I understand the point and totally agree, but in my opinion it doesn't fit to this kind of list in the article which is about features of the OS that don't work on macOS but on Linux. "Linux can't ran Adobe Creative Cloud Apps natively which a lot of designers use" would also not fit this kind of list.

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

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Post by fsflover »

franciscop wrote: post #170
headsoup wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go on then, you start

I'll start with things that I'm happy to have in mac that didn't have in Linux :) - Cannot run a bunch of programs that stay on the topbar, like LINE ( https://line.me/en/ ), Kap ( https://getkap.co/ ), etc. I am a fairly heavy user of Kap and I love the interface, so this is probably the biggest differentiator for me. I can use Gimp, Inkscape, etc. on Mac so this is not really reversible. - The visual quality of the…

> - Drivers all work very well, it's like they built them on purpose for their hardware (!). No more fighting with pulseaudio.

Same with Linux - if you choose appropriate hardware designed for Linux, instead of installing it on random hardware.

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

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Post by thanatos519 »

lloeki wrote: post #151

> Resize the system font I thought Accessibility settings had that, but: > I find the menu bar at the top too small. So not system font, menu bar size relative to the rest. Accessibility settings>Display>Menu bar size>Large > Focus Follow Mouse There used to be this, not sure if it works still: defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool false Otherwise apps like AutoRaise can achieve that. > Change my…

> defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool false

I've heard that ffm is available on Terminal. Cute, but I need it for every window and between apps.

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

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Post by nottorp »

larusso wrote: post #193
nicoburns wrote: post #47

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 eve…

> No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All When you hold ALT while clicking the maximize button it should work. There used to be a setting for this when they introduced it.

View -> Enter full screen?

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

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Post by lloeki »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #127
davweb wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holding Option when you click the green window button will maximise the window - rather than make it full screen - for most, but but not all, applications. For some reason Safari only maximises vertically when you do this.

macOS has never had full-screen maximisation. It maximises "for the content". Which means some windows will never be full screen because they don't have more to show. What you get when you hold Option is the way that was the previous "maximisation" option, before they added the full screen mode which I also abhor.

If you want such maximisation (and not fullscreen as was described), you can use apps like Moom or Magnet.

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

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Post by mcphage »

edent wrote: post #21
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).…

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?

> So is MacOS only for people in perfect health?

Are there only 2 classes of people: people in perfect health, and people unable to use their index finger?

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

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Post by DocTomoe »

sgt wrote: post #147
headsoup wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go on then, you start

No need, you can just go read on https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

After a quick scan, that list is full of stuff that either has never been an issue with me (who has been a Linux desktop user since 2002) or is actually an advantage of the ecosystem (and won't be a problem for people not continuously distro-hopping, e.g. "desktop users"). Some even seem like wilful lies (e.g. the one about Windows and Mac allowing you to 'configure everything via the GUI').

In short, it's FUD, and the author is not honest in his assessment. As such, the article is without merit. So, what can you not do on Linux that you can do on Mac?

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

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Post by _8j50 »

Oh, there is a lot more you can't do on MacOS.

Things I can do on MacOS: - Edit any document or video within minutues of installation

- Use sed/awk/find/grep on any documents or text like with Ubuntu

Linux desktop tries too much to be like macos making it even worse. Every time I have to remove avahi, cups and like 10 other things which breaks the whole damn thing and I have to figure out how to unbreak it then get rid of shitty networkmanager so I can write a systemd unit to get thr network to do what I want and avoid my dns resolvers being replaced and edit grub2 config at least 3 times to get it to actually take so the interface names are not e9xnfhsjfkszhfj02 but just eth0 and then spend half a day to get secure boot working. And then I have to find the apps I want to use and block a weekend aside to set them up.

I use mac to just get things done, I use linux for control and to get them done the way I want.

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