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

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Post by nicoburns »

spoiler wrote: post #113
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…

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…

I'd be interested to know what features iTerm2 doesn't have. It's a big plus for macOS for me!

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

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

GlassKingdom wrote: post #258
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NFS mounts are supported in macOS natively SSH mounts are done with osxfuse MTP support is also available: https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp This article feels a bit like the author didn’t look very hard for solutions to a lot of their problems, but instead skipped straight to writing an article to complain about things they didn’t understand.

osxfuse is not a reasonable answer. The author says “without unsupported 3rd party tools”. I have severe problems with osxfuse on M1: janky behaviour and system crashes. This stuff should be native.

sshfs is a third party tool on Ubuntu (what does first party even mean in the context of Linux?)

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

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Post by vondro »

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…

> Upgrading the OS to a major version without worrying if I'll be able to boot next time.

Yeah, well my friend's Intel Mac mini got bricked when he updated from Big Sur to Monterey in the first week after release. Needed to send it to Apple service. IMO Mac updates are almost as broken nowadays as Linux updates were 7+ years ago when I daily driven it.

I also upgraded my Thinkpad X220 from Windows 7 to Windows 10 when the update showed in my system, and everything worked without any reinstall since then.

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

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Post by lloeki »

neilalexander wrote: post #185
lloeki wrote: post #164

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> 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 fseventsd inotify 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.

Admittedly I didn't, not the least because I expect it to be at best equal in speed to my current setup, plus my current setup gives me better control on the virtualised OS + memory ballooning of the VM (... and that there are other things with DfM that rub me the wrong way).

Nonetheless, I salute the years-long effort from the Docker team on that one.

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

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Post by Liquid_Fire »

jbverschoor wrote: post #271
quibono wrote: post #250

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> Sure I'll bite.. You're talking about Ubuntu, but can you do everything with Ubuntu running KDE or any other WM/DE? Yes. Apart from the Menu bar size it seems like your answer to everything is third party tools, which the author mentions at the beginning of the post. > - Mouse -> Primary mouse button: left/right. Or use tools Which tools specifically? > - On Android you can set the type of connection when you plug…

Sure, but it doesn't mean you can't do it. There are plenty of things I can't do - out of the box - with Ubuntu. Doesn't mean you can't do it. Heck. If I install Ubuntu minimal I can't do anything. Ubuntu is one big 3rd party tool collection. > Which tools specifically? bettertouchtool On my xiaomi or galaxy, can't remember, as they are useless since the software isn't updated anymore. It prompts me on how I want to…

> It's your computer. You can install all these tools if you want.

I'm not sure what you're arguing here - it's literally not their computer, but their employer's. The employer can set policies on what you can or cannot install, whether technically enforced or not. By installing random third-party software, they may be breaching these policies.

And yes, one could possibly get approval from the employer to install them (or maybe not - can you trust that this tool will not steal all your data?), but that is a lot of hassle for fixing such trivial things.

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

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Post by sylens »

I'm always amazed at how many little third party utilities or programs people recommend downloading or buying just to bring the desktop experience on macOS up to parity with Linux (or even Windows!).

The lack of snapping/tiling at this point is just a deliberately malicious decision. I can't fathom why they will not implement some version of this better than that half-hearted split screen view that requires a separate virtual desktop.

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

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Post by epapsiou »

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…

Stability ???? Ubuntu is far more stable. Have never had issues wrt stability. I have had issues with support as in some software do not work on linux (Turbo Tax , Games etc) but never in stability. Have been using linux desktops since 2010

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

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Post by workerdrone451 »

I don't use a Mac often (mainly Linux), but I do troubleshoot my significant other's. I'll add on my gripes:

- SMB shares are wonky and will randomly disconnect with vague errors.

- A large USB drive formatted with NTFS can't be mounted as read/write natively, you have to pay for a third party tool for that.

- Mac's built in gatekeeper software is inferior to Windows Defender. While there's less malware available, the ones out there can cause havoc and don't get caught.

- lastly, Mac restore process is not as easy as Windows, you can reset a Windows PC in a few clicks. Mac your manually nuking volumes, which for a newbie isn't really friendly.

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

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Post by jpetso »

nottorp wrote: post #211
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? :)

Shockingly, years of continued development can indeed resolve a lot of issues with software.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

serial_dev wrote: post #98
dotancohen wrote: post #72

I had to use a Mac at work some time ago. Here's my list: * Cannot drag to copy, middle-click to paste. * No way to disable sticky keys lock. * No way to set ESC as Caps Lock. * No way to set a keyboard shortcut for each specific language. (I use five) * Alt-tab to an _Application_, not a _Window_. How many times will I Alt-Tab to.... nothing! * Return from sleep will rearrange the order of the connected monitors, ev…

While your point is true, that you cannot set ESC to Caps Lock without external apps , you can use Karabiner to do that. Very useful when typing, and with Vim https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ The command+tab switch is also driving me insane! I loved Ubuntu's (probably around 12.04?) window+workspace (or however they called it) handling, but as all the teams I worked on, the devs used Mac, I decided to give in and…

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