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

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Post by dessant »

skoskie wrote: post #719
dessant wrote: post #710

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If you have had the skills to write this comment, you have the skills to submit a bug report. Rectangle has a simple bug report template, and maintainers would probably guide you if you'd have trouble providing the requested information. macOS version: Rectangle version: Logs if applicable (In Rectangle menu, hold option, "View Logging..."): Maintainers are used to receiving barely understandable bug reports written…

People talk about free software but to me there’s the cost of time that’s often overlooked. Submitting bug reports is one way to help “pay” for your “free” software. Sometimes there are usability or productivity or compatibility costs as well, all costing time. But we owe it to the developers and maintainers to put in that work in exchange for all they’ve done. Paying $8 is also valid, but I wouldn’t complain about i…

Exactly, it's perfectly fine to not report a bug and pay for a different product instead. The issue starts when we attribute this to not having the needed skills to report a problem, and we defer the work to our friends. Many of us have that acquaintance who is suddenly capable of doing basic things when you stop offering them your time.

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

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Post by larrik »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #615
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 audio behavior is always a little funky on macOS, for the specific steps given I think the problem is that the 'play' button on the keyboard is more like a 'resume' button really, which can cause it to do seemingly bizarre things if you haven't been doing any audio recently. I would expect that if you clicked play in Spotify, then pause, then hit the key on the keyboard it should behave.

It DOES work in this scenario.

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

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Post by sneak »

vonseel wrote: post #702
sneak wrote: post #590

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The problem is that most of these apps are only available in the App Store which can only be used if you dox yourself to Apple (an Apple ID requires an email and working phone number). It also transmits your hardware serial to Apple when you use it.

https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake https://rectangleapp.com/ Both fully available off the App store. I'm sure you can find alternatives for most apps away from the App store.

Wireguard is only possible in the App Store because Apple won't notarize VPN apps for self-distribution. Many don't realize this.

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

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Post by nicoburns »

adamomada wrote: post #683
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I do use magnet. But something I do want something to be truly fullscreen (no menubar or anything else visible), but without being on another workspace. I think the most common use case for this is with videos. I often want to fullscreen a video, but still be able to quickly switch between windows so that I can for example reply to a message. Note that with any non-fullscreen window I can continue to see live updates…

Try exiting full-screen in the video player (green button) back to windowed mode and then double clicking the title bar. It’s not full, full-screen, but it’s the largest window you can get. I’m still not sure why you can’t switch between applications even if they aren’t on the same workspace though. Cmd tab, Cmd tab takes me from a full-screen video to the last app on a separate workspace, and right back to the video…

The problem is if it isn't a dedicated video app. Say for example a video embedded in a webpage. Then you can maximise the browser window, but the video itself still takes up a small part of the screen.

> And if you want to see other apps at the same time as the video, no wonder full-screen gets in the way.

You say that, but is doesn't on windows or linux. And it didn't used to on macOS either until they changed things around a few years ago.

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

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Post by nicoburns »

mmcnl wrote: post #658
GekkePrutser wrote: post #127

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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.

I hate the thought behind this. Often I don't maximize to see more content, but to hide everything else. Why does Safari decide for me that the window can't be any wider? That doesn't make any sense at all.

Note that this concept predates the concept of maximisation, and comes from an era when single apps would be implemented in multiple windows. E.g. the content area the toolbar in photoshop were separate windows. Back then it made a lot of sense. But I agree it's just annoying now.

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

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Post by babypuncher »

ryandrake wrote: post #614
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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…

> 3: On-the-fly DPI adjustments. My mouse has buttons for cycling through a number of sensitivity presets. I set mine to have 400, 800, and 1600 DPI. When something requires high mouse precision (such as photo editing) I turn the sensitivity down. Ahh, very interesting and very cool. That's the explanation I was looking for! Didn't realize mice had this feature or that OSes supported it.

Operating systems do not implicitly support this, but lots of mice do at the hardware level. They can be configured with software provided by the manufacturer, and usually support storing these configurations on the mouse itself so they can be used without any extra drivers or software running in the background or on operating systems not officially supported.

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

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Post by mmis1000 »

wingerlang wrote: post #711
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Snapping/alignment, gesture. The alignment, it don't even support snapping, place two windows side by side properly is just like impossible, and the + on window go fullscreen unless you hold opt. You can't just swipe to switch between window. You can only swipe between desktop. I'd wonder which part in mac's window manager actually works well (compares to other desktop manager)?

Swiping up with 4 fingers will display all windows for you to select the one you want. Then CMD+TAB or CMD+` if you want to cycle. Like macOS by default might not be exactly fitting for everyone, but surely it works well enough for 99.999% of the population. And coming from Linux users who love customizability... I mean there are multiple ways to make it work exactly as you want. I have snapping, and multiple gesture…

with fullscreen, you just swipe left and right without even touch the keyboard, moving the cursor or look at screen to pick window you want as long as you remembered the order.

The window experience is really scuffed on mac compares to the fullscreen/desktop workflow (and apple even decides to swap maximize with go fullscreen because they expect you to use it so you need hold opt if you want to maximize.)

I highly doubt where the 99.999% comes given apple itself don't really recommend it.

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

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Post by wingerlang »

mmis1000 wrote: post #727
wingerlang wrote: post #711

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Swiping up with 4 fingers will display all windows for you to select the one you want. Then CMD+TAB or CMD+` if you want to cycle. Like macOS by default might not be exactly fitting for everyone, but surely it works well enough for 99.999% of the population. And coming from Linux users who love customizability... I mean there are multiple ways to make it work exactly as you want. I have snapping, and multiple gesture…

with fullscreen, you just swipe left and right without even touch the keyboard, moving the cursor or look at screen to pick window you want as long as you remembered the order. The window experience is really scuffed on mac compares to the fullscreen/desktop workflow (and apple even decides to swap maximize with go fullscreen because they expect you to use it so you need hold opt if you want to maximize.) I highly do…

For full screen to work as you you’d have to have all of your applications full screen, more or less. I just don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone who used it as their main way of working.

Not sure I follow what you mean by Apple not recommending it. Recommending what?

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

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Post by headsoup »

itvision wrote: post #707
DocTomoe wrote: post #208

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After a quick scan, that list is full of stuff that either has never been an issue with me (who has been a Linux desktop user since 2002) or is actually an advantage of the ecosystem (and won't be a problem for people not continuously distro-hopping, e.g. "desktop users"). Some even seem like wilful lies (e.g. the one about Windows and Mac allowing you to 'configure everything via the GUI'). In short, it's FUD, and t…

> Some even seem like wilful lies (e.g. the one about Windows and Mac allowing you to 'configure everything via the GUI'). That's true excluding registry hacks 99.9% of people couldn't care less about. In Linux on the other hand a TON of things do require using console. > In short, it's FUD, and the author is not honest in his assessment. I've heard this assessment from rabid Linux fanatics before. However "FUD" is m…

> In Linux on the other hand a TON of things do require using console.

When was the last time you used Linux?

For a 'normal' desktop user, they will see the terminal as much as they would using Windows, basically not at all. Especially across most of the main user-focused distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Pop, MX, Zorin, etc.

> There's no way I'll ever do that again. Apple hardware is meant for Apple software, period. Using anything else is a never ending source of pain.

You accuse DocTomoe of essentially being a Linux fanatic and the use the same rethoric immediately afterwards...

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