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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)
#312Seems 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
Just had a coworker who had to wipe out his laptop to upgrade ubuntu version. Literally never happened to me on mac
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#313Seems 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…
And airdrop. I could never live without airdrop again. It’s really annoying actually as I want to try the folding phones from samsung but they don’t have airdrop…
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#314I'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 separat…
In return, I'm amazed that people don't just use the software as it's designed. Why do people want to tweak like this?
Like he wants to move the clock. Oh my god just leave it where it is and get on with your job. Lack of customisability gives us more stable software.
And he wants his windows to wobble? What on earth is the point of that?
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#315This is why I have a Mac and Linux/Windows dual boot systems at home. I realized each one of these systems have differences that will never be resolved. I can have my cake and eat it too, each machine fit for purpose.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#316Earlier 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.
Are SSH mounts natively supported on Linux ?
In my case I use sshfs, which also uses FUSE and is a "3rd party tool". Is that more reasonable than osxfuse? (Honest question, I'm unfamiliar with the latter)
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sshfs is "unsupported": "However, at present SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker)."
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#317Seems 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…
> In return you get stability
Does that imply that Linux is not stable? I've had my Arch installation for a full year and it has never broken down on me. No package has ever broken, and updates are always smooth thanks to pacman.
Meanwhile, I can recall a handful of instances where bugs slipped into the macOS userspace in the last year (and made it to the front page of Hacker News)
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#318My 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.
One of the reasons why I almost never use the full screen feature. You can click on the full screen button on the too left-hand corner of each window whilst holding Option, I think that’s the closest you can do out-of-the box. You can assign a keyboard shortcut for this very easily (seriously, the way we can define keyboard shortcuts for almost anything and have them work in almost any app is amazing; nothing comes even close on the Linux side).
Otherwise, you can use something like Magnet or Rectangle, which enable exactly what you want.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 the…
"it is Apple's"
Sure they can set policies. But their policy is to use Apple. So no list of things will help here, as the policy is to not use Ubuntu. Which means he can do exactly nothing with Ubuntu or Windows for that matter.
They could also mandate to not use an external mouse and keyboard. They can be bugged or wireless traffic can be captured
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many of the functionalities the author misses and doesn't want to install "unsupported 3rd party tools" are NOT 3rd party tools in ubuntu? Ubuntu linux is a distribution, and only a very very small set of tools and functionalities is "Ubuntu", all the others are simply packaged up 3rd party tools
These 3rd party tools are tested and supported by the distribution though. It's a big strength of Linux distributions. There is one central, easily reachable place where you can report and track bugs for pretty much everything you do on the computer. Obviously there are no guarantees that things will be fixed (fast) if you don't pay some sort of support but that's fair enough and still, the maintainers usually want t…
And no less importantly, on a Linux distro these 3rd party tools are installed with native package management tools from a (minimally) vetted source. No need to go out and search the wild web for forum posts of suggestions of which tools to risk your install on.