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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 Sohcahtoa82 »

babypuncher wrote: post #573
ryandrake wrote: post #521

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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 :)

Way back in the late '90s and early '00s, lots of PC games with mouse look simply drew a window behind the game and placed the mouse cursor in the center. Every frame it would measure the distance the cursor traveled from center and reset it to poll for mouse movement. This meant that your OS mouse acceleration settings directly impacted how your mouse felt in game. If you've ever had a game glitch out and show a mou…

> 1: Mouse sensitivity. I run my mouse at 1600 DPI, which is 2-4x higher than your typical typical cheap office mouse. I can zip across a large display pretty quick.

I run my mouse at like 17000 DPI, then lower the sensitivity to compensate.

This gives me sub-pixel precision in FPS games.

Not that it helps much. I still have shit reaction times.

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

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Post by Klonoar »

ProAm wrote: post #464
thenoblesunfish wrote: post #171

Most of the criticisms here are about the fact that the UI is more customizable on Ubuntu - fair enough, but I can't help but feel that the implication is being made that this is better. I think it's pretty clear that macOS is trying to give you less options (there are, after all, lots of hidden options), but in a considered enough way that almost all users will be happy to have their lives simplified. I move back an…

A customizable UI is the first point of contact for usability and productivity. There isnt a reason to not provide these, stability is not an excuse especially when a lot of the answers in this thread are to install a 3rd party utility to accomplish them. Window tiling and mouse button customization are easy and safe.

I would argue that the massive company doing usability studies is the first point of contact for… usability. Most people legitimately do not give a single shit about changing this stuff themselves - hell, once they enter Chrome many seem seem to forget the rest of the OS even exists these days.

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

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Post by jjjbokma »

drcongo wrote: post #336
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)…

I'm using Docker for Mac on an M1 Pro and it's stupidly fast, to the point that my dev environment runs faster than the Intel production servers on some things.

How well does it handle a large amount of writes to small files (say 1000 files, each about 8KB)?

Edit: the static blog generator I wrote [1] takes 11 seconds inside a Ubuntu virtual machine with the directory shared with MacOS on an Mac mini late 2014. Docker, on the same machine, takes 1m13 seconds using gRPC FUSE for file sharing. 1866 HTML files are being generated.

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

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

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Post by yokoprime »

yodelshady wrote: post #201

> Read MTP devices > Mount an SSH or NFS drive I know fanboy debates are tiresome, but... I really do struggle to comprehend taking a device that can't do these things seriously as a computer. As a toy yes, or as a specialised tool for video or audio rendering, which... fair enough. But moving bytes is something any general purpose computing device should be good at. It's almost something you have to actively design…

I daily drive a mac, it earns me my living doing everything from development to writing specs. There's a bunch of compromises, weird decisions etc, but none of them are holding me back from doing my job. I vastly prefer this setup over windows and wsl.

I do find it interesting how strong the Apple anti-fanboy sentiment is though. Rarely do I hear people rabidly defending Apple around me. It's a tool, like a DeWalt drill or Milwaukee saw. It gets the job done, and of the tools I have to choose amongs I prefer this particular one.

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

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Post by jkubicek »

411111111111111 wrote: post #520
dahfizz wrote: post #487

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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

My secret to happiness on a Mac: focus your energy on figuring out how the designers want you to use a tool. Don't fight the design, work with it. Don't change the defaults, live with them.

Some folks love to fiddle with settings and tweak configs to get everything just right... but this is a recipe for disappointment when an upgrade removes the secret config you found or hard-codes a setting that was previously available as a preference.

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

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Post by Klonoar »

rsync wrote: post #517

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 ?

Oh, wow. I thought I was going crazy but this comment makes me think maybe not.

When I was skimming this thread last night I was positive this was an option at one point but when I went into System Preferences to look I could no longer find it. Was making me lose my mind.

Or maybe we’re at a Berenstein/Berenstain situation here.

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

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Post by Klonoar »

tinus_hn wrote: post #82
slowmotiony wrote: post #64

I remember I used to be able to force-quit an app by two-finger tapping on the red "close" button. Then suddenly after some update, the feature is gone. I hate when they change shit for no reason and dont think for a second about breaking peoples workflow.

The Apple line of thinking probably is that force closing apps shouldn’t be a part of peoples workflow.

They explicitly keep the Apple icon menu entry for this, so they’re not hiding it from people.

I’d put more money on people on Touchpad devices force quitting more often than anticipated, so they removed it.

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

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Post by howinteresting »

IshKebab wrote: post #589
dpatterbee wrote: post #41

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> * Set mouse acceleration (you used to be able to but they removed the option and now you can only set sensitivity). Using MacOS is such a miserable experience for this exact reason. I'm sure it's fine when using the trackpad but trying to use a mouse on macos is borderline torture. I fundamentally do not understand why anybody would ever want mouse acceleration. It just makes it harder to use the mouse.

You want some mouse acceleration. Otherwise moving to the other side of the screen requires picking up the mouse several times. The problem is Mac's acceleration code is pretty awful.

This is not true? I don't use mouse acceleration, I just use a high-quality mouse with a dialed-in sensitivity.

As the other comments have pointed out, SteerMouse works fine at the cost of $20.

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

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Post by Klonoar »

_8j50 wrote: post #457
viraptor wrote: post #358

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> Every time I have to remove avahi, cups and like 10 other things which breaks the whole damn thing I don't get it. You're removing services manually and complain it breaks your system. Why remove them then? (For extra irony, avahi is there to support Apple's Bonjour and cups belongs to Apple - I don't expect you're turning those off on your MacOs, right?)

Yes, that is exactly what I am doing, because I don't want random things I don't need running, because I desire control when I run Linux. If I want random junk that breaks everything and has no use to me running, macos and windows do that just fine.

I think everyone responding to you has misread your comment and believes you’re saying the opposite of what you meant.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #600
ryandrake wrote: post #521

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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 :)

...by turning sensitivity up? I don't understand how this is even a question. It's such an obvious answer. My sensitivity is configured so that it takes about an inch and a half of mouse movement to move across one monitor.

But then you must be sacrificing small, precise movements. Assuming your monitor is 1920 pixels across, and your mouse's DPI is high enough, you'd need to move your mouse 1/1280 inches (or approximately 20μm) to move the cursor a single pixel. How does your hand physically move 20μm? If your 1.5 inches of movement spans a 4K monitor, then you need to move your mouse 10μm to move the cursor a single pixel.

EDIT: babypuncher's reply seems to address this using on-the-fly DPI adjustment. Pretty cool!

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