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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 nottorp » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:51 AM UTC

SXX wrote: post #88

I'll add some to the list: - Control external monitor sound volume. There are buggy paid and open source solutions, but they all trigger all kind of bugs with sound and macOS itself. - Capture game audio with OBS together with microphone input. - Being able to wait for files to copy and work Finder at the same time. Yeah I could find replacement for Finder, but why the hell? - Use Valve Proton. Yeah, Linux is great t…

> And yeah PulseAudio is just so much better than everything macOS can offer.

The PulseAudio that is one of the factors that drove me off desktop linux in 2013? :)

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

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Post by cosmiccatnap » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:52 AM UTC

It's interesting to me that these concerns are ancient it seems and yet apple has no interest in addressing them. They seems to have their own philosophy about what people use their OS for and it's sad because it drags down a good platform. Having switched to macOS for work like most people it feels like having the Ferrari of laptops but the Fischer Price of operating systems.

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

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Post by cmrdporcupine » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

I'm not a MacOS user but I recall using early versions of OS X finder for connecting to SSH shares, like early 2000s. Did they remove this feature?

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

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Post by martopix » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

yodelshady wrote: post #201

> 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…

You can use osxfuse to mount ssh filesystems on Mac.

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

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Post by stackdatcamp » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

jzellis wrote: 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,…

Does pipewire solve your problems in recording? I'm planning to get into the music making rabbit hole and I wonder if my Pop_OS! laptop is up to the task.

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

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Post by saagarjha » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

tomsmeding wrote: post #57

saagarjha wrote: post #40

> 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.

They are one and the same, because when you are interacting with a window you are actually interacting with controls inside the window. It is easy to forward cursor events to the target window (hover and scroll already do this, FWIW) but when you want to say type something you'll need to focus the text element under the cursor before you can just blast key events to that application.

Doing this in a way that feels intuitive is non-trivial. If you go the simple route and focus every control (so you can do things like tab between them) you run into the issue of the mouse activating some of them as you go over the element and giving it focus–for example, if you do it on a window sidebar, you'll switch between the tabs. I didn't get a chance to really thing about it, but I was thinking of just giving text elements focus and considering it to be good enough; but there are still challenges there: should you be able to focus on a search field (which might blow away the current context and replace it with a "searching" screen)? How should I handle keyboard shortcuts?

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

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Post by shric » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:54 AM UTC

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…

For those who don't mind "full screen" still including the top bar, I find https://www.hammerspoon.org/ to be a good compromise. I set up option+shift+f to full screen my window instantly.

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

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Post by freedom2099 » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:55 AM UTC

yodelshady wrote: post #201

> 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…

Actually it is very easy to mount nfs drive on Mac… i don’t see why the post author has problems! I do it daily…

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

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Post by bitmuncher » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:55 AM UTC

You can change the menu bar size under "Accessibility -> Display" to "large".

You should be able to mount a NFS share on login by mounting it, go to the login items settings of your user and add the mount there.

For your mouse: Ask your vendor to provide a driver for macOS. This is a usual problem with a lot of hardware. A lot of vendors don't provide a driver for macOS.

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

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Post by mistertester » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:55 AM UTC

Before using a Mac I was told how glorious it was and a feat of engineering. Reality is that the Mac and associated products are not as perfect as Apple fans make it out to be. The window manager on Mac makes me want to scream. Navigating the file system in Finder is not intuitive and don't get me started on the Magic Mouse and it's charging port...