Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

shkspr.mobi

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

531–540 of 740 posts

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

#531

Post by mattnewton »

ryukafalz wrote: post #508
dahfizz wrote: post #487

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Also, the fact that I can't independently control the scroll direction of mice and trackpads is insane to me. Oh yeah I just plugged a mouse into a work Mac recently and was super confused at this. Yes I’ve gotten used to natural scrolling on touchpads by now, but no that doesn’t mean I want it on a scroll wheel!

This starts to make sense when you see the mice that apple sells don't have wheels, they have a touch surface on top. And if you aren't using an apple mouse you're off the happy path and stuck toggling settings forever.

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

#532

Post by dahfizz »

ryandrake wrote: post #521
dahfizz wrote: post #487

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How do you "zero mouse acceleration" people survive? I have three monitors side by side. If I went with zero mouse acceleration, I'd need a 3 meter wide mouse pad in order to be able to move the mouse cursor edge to edge! Or do you do that mouse bicycle move where you constantly pick the mouse up, bring it back to its original position, move it some more, pick it back up, and so on? Such a weird subculture :)

Well the m1 only supports one external monitor so thats not much of an issue ;)

I use a Logitech G502 and I just like the high sensitivity. I don't need a huge trackpad or to pick up the mouse. When mouse movent maps 1:1 to pointer movement, your brain and muscle memory can do a much better job at fast & precise movement.

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

#533

Post by Isthatablackgsd »

dilawar wrote: post #166

> Read files from MTP devices > > If I stick a USB cable between my phone and Linux laptop, I can see the Android files on my laptop. I can open them, move them around, etc. On a Mac I need to install some shonky 3rd party software which rarely works. https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp

Helpful tip for anyone with Android phone and macOS. I found that app will choke or crash if it is accessing folder with over 500+ photos. Create a new folder outside of that photo folder. Then use the Android file manager to transfer or copy the photos you want to the new folder. Connect it to macOS and you will be able to grab the photos from the phone to macOS without crashing.

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

#534

Post by rsync »

leohonexus wrote: post #340
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 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…

"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."

Agreed - again, from someone who has given a lot of thought to sshfs and mounting ssh/sftp on OSX.

See my reply to a sibling-of-your-parent, upthread: use Mountain Duck.

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

#535

Post by weakfish »

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…

I recommend linear mouse for acceleration - free and can also modify scroll behavior

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

#536

Post by [deleted] »

phist_mcgee wrote: post #466
somebehemoth wrote: post #377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People that don’t know how to use and maintain Linux should not be the metric for Linux stability. Linux will let you shoot yourself in the foot. That is not a Linux problem, PEBKAC.

If it's not working, you're obviously using it wrong.

[deleted]

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

#537

Post by spicybright »

> Change my mouse button order

Wow, this one actually surprised me quite a bit.

Apple makes some of the best accessibility tools (imo), but I just did a dive in the settings and couldn't find anything!

Alternatives have been mentioned here, but I use https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ for stuff like this typically.

It takes a bit of setup, but it's an extremely flexible and solid tool so far for me. It exposes a lot on a lower level which makes it feel more stable in general.

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

#538

Post by plafl »

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…

> and macOS has good MS Office support.

This. I get the M1 must be very good but what I really want is something I doubt I'm going to get: native Office support in Linux. I use Office rarely but on those rare occasions it sucks to use Office 365.

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

#539

Post by ihuman »

kergonath wrote: post #318
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…

> 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 alm…

You can also fullscreen within the workspace by double clicking the window's title bar (or the window's toolbar if it doesn't have a title)

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

#540

Post by nicoburns »

brimble wrote: post #489
nicoburns wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I used it for a long time but switched back to regular Terminal for the lower latency, because I realized I couldn't even name an iTerm2 feature I used that Terminal didn't have. I'd just been using it because it was so widely discussed.

That's completely fair. For me the killer feature is it's multi-pane support. Being able to have several terminal panes side-by-side on screen at once without having to fiddle about with something like tmux is wonderful.
Post reply on HN