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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 ryukafalz »

chrisseaton wrote: post #399
m3adow wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s the difference between being able to decorate your room and put things where they make sense for you vs. being given a cookie cutter room with everything bolted to the tables and floors. Can I use the latter? Sure. Is it functional? Sure. Would it feel like home? Not really.

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

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Post by Supermancho »

ahepp wrote: post #475
larrik wrote: post #467

I switched from Linux Mint desktop to an M1 Air last year. Performance-wise, the M1 is very impressive, probably feels about 80% as fast as my 6 year old desktop (that sounds like snark, but it isn't). Meanwhile, the battery life is insane (I've never brought the charger anywhere but my desk, and will often use it for a week out and about). I opted for the Magic Keyboard and Magic Touchpad, because I had a lot of tro…

> Also, the fact that everything I want to tweak requires buying an app? I had to pay for an app in order to properly emulate middle clicks on the touchpad! That's bonkers! Yes I have noticed this too! I love my MacBook, but the idea that I would pay what, $20, for the top tier window snapping app is completely ridiculous. That’s something that should be built in to the shell!

> Window Snapping

Use https://www.spectacleapp.com/ - it's free.

It's not exactly the same, but better in many ways - excepting the auto-drag snapping. Snapping is via key combination instead.

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

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Post by ubercow13 »

larrik wrote: post #467

I switched from Linux Mint desktop to an M1 Air last year. Performance-wise, the M1 is very impressive, probably feels about 80% as fast as my 6 year old desktop (that sounds like snark, but it isn't). Meanwhile, the battery life is insane (I've never brought the charger anywhere but my desk, and will often use it for a week out and about). I opted for the Magic Keyboard and Magic Touchpad, because I had a lot of tro…

LinearMouse works for disabling mouse acceleration and is open source

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

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Post by catchclose8919 »

chrisseaton wrote: post #450
vorpalhex wrote: post #449

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The maker controls the tools, the tools do not control the maker. You're asking "but why not let the tail wag the dog?" The tool works or it does not.

> The tool works or it does not. That's the point. macOS works just fine without wobbly windows. We don't need the extra complexity of wobbly windows.

Or you can design the system generally enough and solidly enough in preserving useful invariants that adding wobbly windows to it would be "trivial", and testing it would not even be worth it!

Decades ago a Linux window manager drawing engine added wobbly windows just to show off that with their new system was trivial not because anyone needed it or wanted it! This is the kind of software and attitude I love and want to see everywhere! Doing something so well that the cost of a "luxury" feature drops to almost zeros and you just add it to show off in some free time :) Unfortunately not all of Linux is build like this and most of its parts are not really compatible with each other so they need to be forcibly ducktaped together by layers of glue code to resemble a full system, but that's a different story...

There's different ways to think about software and do software than our hellish local maximum we're stuck in... you're just going full "stockholm syndrome" and justifying the badly designed an non-extensible non-generalizable systems we're stuck with because doing things differently would've generated 5% less profit in the last quarter :)

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

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Post by mmis1000 »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #503
chrisseaton wrote: post #314

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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?

Window snapping is a pretty basic thing that every non-Mac OS and DE does... And it's annoying AF to not have it.

That's why people always use fullscreen in mac. Because window just don't really work well. The only time I ever use window is dragging file from finder to vscode. Because mac is dumb enough that don't allow drag happen between different desktop. (Or I would just drag file from finder to vscode on different screen)

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

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Post by vorpalhex »

chrisseaton wrote: post #450
vorpalhex wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The maker controls the tools, the tools do not control the maker. You're asking "but why not let the tail wag the dog?" The tool works or it does not.

> The tool works or it does not. That's the point. macOS works just fine without wobbly windows. We don't need the extra complexity of wobbly windows.

I left MacOS because it stopped working for me, after using it for 6+ years.

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

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Post by rsync »

I thought focusfollowsmouse was now available inside accessibility settings menu ?

That is, without any third party additions, I was under the impression you could achieve FFM by enabling a very particular setting inside the accessibility menu in system settings.

I can't test this because I don't have a modern enough OSX running in my office but I swear I saw this as of High Sierra or something.

Am I making this up ?

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

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Post by abruzzi »

vimsee wrote: post #437
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #238

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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.

> NFS mounts are supported in macOS natively ..and MacOS lets you mount an nfs share ootb as a user. On linux you need an fstab entry for that though that is really not an issue at all. How you ask? You do this with the mac specific command: mount_nfs Here is how I use it to mount shares from my NAS. $ mount_nfs -o nolocks,nfsvers=3 /home/nas/myshares/nfs /Users/bob/nas/nfs

or, if you're in the gui -- command-k, then type nfs://server/share

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

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Post by 411111111111111 »

dahfizz wrote: post #487
larrik wrote: post #467

I switched from Linux Mint desktop to an M1 Air last year. Performance-wise, the M1 is very impressive, probably feels about 80% as fast as my 6 year old desktop (that sounds like snark, but it isn't). Meanwhile, the battery life is insane (I've never brought the charger anywhere but my desk, and will often use it for a week out and about). I opted for the Magic Keyboard and Magic Touchpad, because I had a lot of tro…

The mouse acceleration curve on Mac drives me insane. There is a way to set it to "0" with some command line incantation, but it still does not set it to 0. Also, the fact that I can't independently control the scroll direction of mice and trackpads is insane to me. The whole selling point of Apple is that "it just works" , but I can't even get my mouse working properly! That's like the lowest bar for an OS.

> "it just works"

It does just work. You're just using it wrong.

Keep that second sentence in mind whenever people say that first line and you'll never have any issues with apple fans

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