Let me add: Use scrolling to adjust the volume or other sliders. This is so useful in KDE, but you can't do it on MacOs
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)
#392I'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…
The catch is, with enough 3rd party apps MacOS can do all that stuff but no amount of 3rd party apps and utilities can make Ubuntu match the MacOS experience. To match macOS on Ubuntu you will need a full time Linux guru as PA to smooth things out for your. You will need another one for the after hours. Therefore, Ubuntu is great for really rich people or people who need that one thing that Ubuntu excels at and nothing else.
It's essentially the same issue with iPhone v.s. Android. There's always some Android phone that can do one thing better than the best iPhone out there and to have an overall better-than-iPhone experience you need to use a dozen Android devices all the time(buying and maintaining multiple devices is unrealistic for most of the people, you need to be really rich and have a PA to manage all that for your. Another PA for the extra hours).
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because people have different needs, expectations, and preferences. It’s part of what makes humans interesting. Computers should be made to serve people, not the other way around.
I don't know - I'm a big fan of sensible defaults, lack of customisation (so lack of entropy) and just getting on and using it as designed, rather than trying to bend it to be something else. I'm not sure there can really be any reasonable requirement to move the clock. I think that's just being fussy. For every wacky feature or option someone wants, that has to be built, maintained, tested. Every boolean option you…
Funny enough he's answering your complaints in the last paragraph. You're telling him he's "holding it wrong". Except individual taste can rarely be wrong.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#394Earlier 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…
If the problem is in the software provided by a package, most of the time you can report them in the bugtracker of the distribution, but it wont be fixed/supported by the distribution since the bug is upstream.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because people have different needs, expectations, and preferences. It’s part of what makes humans interesting. Computers should be made to serve people, not the other way around.
Having different preferences, and using a different platform that serves them better, is absolutely fine. Deciding that the platform that doesn't meet your needs is somehow illegitimate, "not a computer," or somehow morally unacceptable is juvenile fanboy crap.
Your game console, your smart TV, and even your microwave oven all have computers inside, crucial for their interaction with you. But they choose to not expose to you the general computing capabilities they possess. (Yes, there is a reason for that.)
Truth be told, a Macbook does expose itself as a general computing device all right.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holding Option when you click the green window button will maximise the window - rather than make it full screen - for most, but but not all, applications. For some reason Safari only maximises vertically when you do this.
macOS has never had full-screen maximisation. It maximises "for the content". Which means some windows will never be full screen because they don't have more to show. What you get when you hold Option is the way that was the previous "maximisation" option, before they added the full screen mode which I also abhor.
Which is annoying for some applications which don't maximise, because the content isn't there but could be. I can't think off what does this off the top of my head since I installed Amethyst, but I think I remember Excel used to do this back in the day.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't used Windows since 2005, so my opinion might be unwarranted, but I've been upgrading my home Linux distro since sometime before 2010 without a clean wipe. During that time I've heard of so many Windows "fix it by reinstalling" stories that I wonder if that is simply the default first step in Windows troubleshooting. After turning it off and back on, of course.
To be fair. There’s a bunch of issues around upgrading to 22.04 because of snaps…
Terrific, thank you. That is to be the project this coming weekend, though I wasn't expecting problems.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
OSXFuse is now replaced with sshfs, but it’s now a PITA to install it via Homebrew because macFUSE, a dep for sshfs has turned closed-source and Homebrew would refuse to install sshfs for that reason. You’d have to install macFUSE binary from their official site first, and load their kernel extension via the GUI, before running the Homebrew command to solve it. Which begs the question: if I’m already jumping through…
> if I’m already jumping through hoops to get SSH mounts on macOS to work, why not use Linux already? Jumping through hoops? It's installing a pkg file, takes about a minute and it is a one time operation you will never really need to do again. Have you ever daily driven a linux box? Times have changed but you will jump through hoops far more often than on macOS. - written from my frankenstein arch linux macbook pro
> It's installing a pkg file, takes about a minute and it is a one time operation you will never really need to do again.
Typically I have to do it once a year, because the kernel extension seems to break with every new macOS version.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know - I'm a big fan of sensible defaults, lack of customisation (so lack of entropy) and just getting on and using it as designed, rather than trying to bend it to be something else. I'm not sure there can really be any reasonable requirement to move the clock. I think that's just being fussy. For every wacky feature or option someone wants, that has to be built, maintained, tested. Every boolean option you…
Funny enough he's answering your complaints in the last paragraph. You're telling him he's "holding it wrong". Except individual taste can rarely be wrong.
Nobody said his taste was 'wrong'. I don't even know what that would mean?
I'm saying he'd get more out the tool by learning and embracing the design of it, rather than wishing it was something that it isn't. Go with the flow, rather than fighting it. Reduce entropy not create it.
Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
#400I 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, th…
My experience with SMB shares is that pretty much any client works ok with Samba, but only Windows is really reliable connecting to Windows over SMB.
The protocols on the wire are different than what's documented especially for older SMB servers - Windows "released documentation" on some of the protocols because they were being reversed, but the docs are flakey or incomplete.
The actual transfer operations are pretty straightforward, but the negotiation steps are _very_ intricate and the Microsoft docs about the protocols are less than honest at times.