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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 zamadatix »

lloeki wrote: post #195
romseb wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While this gets rid of the animation itself, the transition to the workspace takes the same amount of time.

When using gestures, the animations kind of match the gesture, which makes them slow because you can physically cancel them. But some of these may help. There may be more (or less), it's been a while. defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.003 defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.15 defaults write com.apple…

It's got nothing to do with gestures, the key combo has the same switch delay as a quick gesture swipe (Which seems to have the same delay as mission control selection) when switching workspaces.

I've spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to get rid of this workspace switch delay. The tipping point for me on it was switching to a 16" Pro with a 120 Hz screen and finding out that means it now takes longer to switch.

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

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Post by art4ur »

uuyi wrote: 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.

Depends on the user. Running Lightroom, Pixelmator and Excel are trivial to me because that's not my workflow.

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

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Post by projektfu »

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.

Gnome has this but you need to install the tweaks ui to get it. It's how I run Gnome.

With multiple monitors it makes much more sense to me than click to focus.

I tried it on windows but a lot of programs don't expect it and raise themselves when they get focus. My mac has only one monitor.

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

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Post by bodge5000 »

rich_sasha wrote: post #196
bodge5000 wrote: post #159

Seems like the obvious tradeoffs you'd expect, mostly lack of control/ability to change things, which I'd expect of MacOS. In return you get stability, Apples locked down approach means the OS is far more predictable. Linux in my view takes the reverse approach, you lose stability relative to MacOS in exchange for complete control. Historically Windows has sat somewhere in the middle, though in recent years with all…

My personal laptop is a mac os, and agree with some of the criticism. However, stability-wise, it has been rock-solid. I also manage my own Ubuntu desktop for work, and had to reinstall the system 3 times from scratch because it magically stopped working. In the end it turned out to be something with a new kernel, but it took me, dunno, 2 days to debug.

> However, stability-wise, it has been rock-solid.

Oh sorry, might not have been very clear, thats what I meant.

As I say I haven't used MacOS in a while, but in my eyes its always been the strongest choice in terms of stability, with the tradeoff being control and to an extent (depending on what your doing with it) compatibility.

Windows seems to specialise in compatibility, Linux in control (I prefer saying that than customisation, which in my view makes light of it) and MacOS in stability.

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

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Post by DocTomoe »

jacobmischka wrote: post #58
david-cako wrote: post #10

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.

Which is ironic coming from acolytes of a sect that once used 'think differently' as a mantra.

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

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Post by vondro »

Apart from written in the article, my 2 cents:

- cannot invert scrolling just for mouse (I use normal mouse with wheel, not apple mouse) -> I have an app for that

- cannot connect Mac to a low dpi screen (like 1080p) without macOS looking like crap

On the other hand, macOS can run MS Office, or professional video and photo editing apps, which Linux cannot do. Alternatives exist, but are IMO worse.

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

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Post by lloeki »

tinus_hn wrote: post #128
enriquto wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't you just use a different window manager?

Windows does not use a window manager like X does; the frames are drawn and managed by a library used by all applications, it’s not a separate program. I’m not 100% sure but I’d say it’s pretty likely Mac OS works the same way, just like on Mac OS the left part of the menu bar (including the system menu) is drawn and managed by the current application (using a system library so the application developer doesn’t have…

> on Mac OS the left part of the menu bar (including the system menu) is drawn and managed by the current application

IIRC it is not drawn by the application, it's a system app that gets the focused (or rather, activated) app menu hierarchy as the app instructs through some IPC, but it's not the app process itself drawing there. The only part where an app actually can draw is on the right part, when one implements menu bar extras (which previously required hacks to inject into because the menubar extra API was severely limited, but IIUC now has a dedicated, managed API to replace the hacks)

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

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Post by pjmlp »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #136
pjmlp wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

macOS/iOS sandboxes and Docker containers aren't the same thing, not even from technology point of view.

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

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Post by Asraelite »

synthomat wrote: post #96
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 full screen on same workspace: option+maximize button or double click on title bar (works with some applications)

Neither this nor clicking it without option are actually fullscreen. MacOS doesn't have fullscreen, it only has two types of maximization.
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