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).…
Soundsource for HDMI audio control, Steermouse for fine grained mouse settings - including acceleration - and Blackhole for recording system audio.
> 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.
WSL2 doesn't have Linux roots deep within Windows anymore, it's literally running a Linux VM with a full kernel under the HyperV hypervisor, so it's exactly like DfM (IIRC save for the fact that Windows then also runs under HyperV with the hypervisor sitting on top, Xen-like, and as is achieved on Xbox, and Linux running side by side instead of being handled by an OS process underneath the main OS)
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).…
> * Set mouse acceleration (you used to be able to but they removed the option and now you can only set sensitivity). Using MacOS is such a miserable experience for this exact reason. I'm sure it's fine when using the trackpad but trying to use a mouse on macos is borderline torture. I fundamentally do not understand why anybody would ever want mouse acceleration. It just makes it harder to use the mouse.
You can change it with Steermouse - it’s like $20 and 5 minutes, and you gain all sorts of customisation options for button assignments, etc, too.
I wonder if the OP has switched from Windows to Linux initially. And did he write a piece complaining that everything isn't exactly how they're used to then? A lot of "i'd switch but" articles - in all directions - basically come down to "the destination doesn't work how i'm used to". Even though they're fundamentally as crappy in the background. When someone asks me why I use Mac OS as my main desktop I answer "it's…
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I'm happily using Windows now but used a Mac before and it took a long time for me to realise that my complaints about Windows largely boiled down to "it doesn't do things in the way that I'm used to".
With that said, whilst I do like macOS overall I always found it infuriating how on macOS applications could steal focus. Something I do appreciate on Windows is that focus stealing by and large isn't a thing.
> 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…
ROFL. Yes, "as a toy". Things that 99.9% of Hacker News (and 99.999999% of the general public) has literally never had a need to do, their absence surely just invalidates it.
Hot takes like yours are what make HN a hilarious joke to the rest of the world. Embarrassing.
Exactly, both informative for MacOS users and those who never used it. MacOS users can quickly scan and think yeah I don't care about this feature, or think huh this is something that could be useful and maybe I should look for a 3rd party app which has this. Those considering switching to MacOS can compare to their existing environment and have a greater picture of what possible pain points to expect. I would like t…
This list is personal and far from exhaustive (which is fine). If I quickly scanned looking for things I care about, I'd find very little. However, as a Linux user I could very quickly come up with an equally long list of things that I do care about and that does not overlap much with this one. I think the larger point is: in Linux, some things are complicated but most things are possible. On Mac and Windows, some th…
> On Mac and Windows, some things are easier but many things are impossible.
The obvious caveat is that many things are impossible out of the box. There are plenty of tools available to address a good number of the shortcomings mentioned in the story.
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve been using Mac for years and still don’t know how to make an application fullscreen like Windows does. The green button hides the menu bar, and alt clicking the green buttom makes the app bigger but doesn’t fill the whole screen.
Either I am stupid or Mac is bad at discoverability.
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.
+1 for this. Hammerspoon is a godsend. I have keyboard shortcuts to switch to my desired apps instantly (around 10 or so, hyper+I is IntelliJ, hyper+A is Atom, hyper+F is Firefox etc.)