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- Windows 10/11
- WSL
- Powertoys
- Windows Terminal
- VS Code
- Beyond Compare
- Filelocator Pro
- Plex / Plexamp
- Calibre
- Resilio
- Firefox
- Ublock Origin
- Bitwarden
- Pushbullet
- Pihole
- Notion
- Hangouts (RIP, Chat is not the same, buddy)
I'm going to grab this opportunity to give the tiniest of shout outs to a random list of mostly Windows based software that I use every single day. - Windows 10/11 - WSL - Powertoys - Windows Terminal - VS Code - Beyond Compare - Filelocator Pro - Plex / Plexamp - Calibre - Resilio - Firefox - Ublock Origin - Bitwarden - Pushbullet - Pihole - Notion - Hangouts (RIP, Chat is not the same, buddy)
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I've seen claims by people who knew him that he was narcissistic (which I find easy to believe) but none that he was sociopathic.
I wouldn't label him a by-and-large sociopath, but Steve Jobs certainly exhibited sociopathic behavior. Especially earlier in his career, Jobs was known for his lack of empathy towards his coworkers and being difficult to work with.
That not significant evidence of "sociopathic behavior" unless your using "sociopathic" to mean behavior you disapprove of.
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I've done lots of dev on both linux and Windows. Neither is "better" IMHO. I started on Linux, but today my main work and personal systems are both Win10. I also have a persoanl Linux laptop I use sometimes (currently Pop_OS, because I felt like trying that). There's certain things easier on one or the other, usually caused by silly hardcoding of paths (or other OS-specific assumptions). I've run into this with pytho…
Are you able to compare scoop to Chocolatey? I've stuck with choco for years now, because it has so many packages that I haven't wanted to try out scoop or WinGet. Regarding PowerShell, I've found that it has become incredibly customizable these days. For example, I just enabled Emacs keybindings for it a couple days ago. So it feels almost like a bash terminal.
The entire operation of it is simple but powerful: everything is based on a manifest file [1]. The official manifests are in git repos, but you can also install from a local file or a gist.
Chocolatey's usage of nuget packages while also basically just running the app's normal installer is weird and results in all kinds of situation where versions don't match, chocolately upgrades don't do the expected thing, etc. All these problems just don't happen with scoop (at least not in my years of experience with it).
Scoop apps install to ~/scoop/apps/// and then get a symlink ~/scoop/apps//current/, while also getting a ~/scoop/persist//. It's just very elegant.
It adds "shims" for any executables in ~/scoop/shims/, and because that's the only directory added to your path (when scoop is first installed), newly added apps "just work" in all your open terminals/apps/etc.
It also seems faster. "scoop install " and a few seconds later you can use it. Chocolatey usually does the UAC prompt stuff and generally just feels clunky by comparison.
[1] https://scoop-docs.vercel.app/docs/concepts/App-Manifests.ht...
Apptivate - set global keyboard shortcut for Mac. Firefox - been using it for 20 years and still loving it. Vimium - vim binding for Firefox. Make web browsing more productive.
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For multitasking, this tool has helped me a lot: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ . Though I still can't figure out why some apps don't work in split view, the window manager just says "Not available in this split view". Split view has always worked in Windows no matter what the app.
Switching windows is just one thing regarding multitasking though. Are there others regarding multitasking? One thing I have found for myself is that the keyboard shortcuts on Mac tend to be more uniform among all the different programs. I've also found Command much easier to use than Ctrl on Windows. I say that as a Windows user, who went to Mac as primary device, and now splitting Windows/Mac roughly 50/50. The sho…
On windows, usually it's easy to guess what modifier would be assigned to a task. But on Mac, I only need to use memory. In vscode (well that's not an Apple program, but is my main application), Opening documents is CMD+P, but opening terminal is ctrk+backtick. Now, options, is it CMD or Ctrl + comma? You have to know specifically.
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I use Linux as my main OS for some years now, but use Mac and Windows, mostly because I need to test my software on them, but I have to say: I totally agree. Windows is the only practical desktop OS for most people. Mac is not an OS you can use unless you buy the entire package, and then you have to live with many of its limitations. It absolutely sucks at multitasking (not that most average users care about this one…
> Mac is not an OS you can use unless you buy the entire package, and then you have to live with many of its limitations. It absolutely sucks at multitasking (not that most average users care about this one, but anyone coming from windows will struggle). I know that macOS is not very keyboard friendly in general, but I’d like to know more about what you mean by “it sucks at multitasking”.
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Curious to learn, what are the differentiators of ZFS? File system seems like an invisible layer to me personally which makes me ask this question.
Well, ZFS way of managing disks is really comfy to me, and, The way datasets and snapshots work, let me have really space efficient game modding. I wrote a bit more about this on my extremely simple blog https://sleepycatgirl.github.io/html/zfs.html