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Re: New MacBook Setup

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Post by wyclif »

whatever1 wrote: post #6

I find hilarious the fact that we need to buy & install a windowing tool because the native OS window system has been broken for the past 40 years. Can't they just copy what windows and linux are doing?

I tend to agree that the functionality you see in Rectangle or Magnet should be native. Window placement shouldn't be a third party app.

But whenever I've asked people at Apple about this, the response has been "Well, Apple is historically just very opinionated about window placement and settings." The overall vibe was "Apple knows best."

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Post by jwells89 »

0x2a wrote: post #9
whatever1 wrote: post #6

I find hilarious the fact that we need to buy & install a windowing tool because the native OS window system has been broken for the past 40 years. Can't they just copy what windows and linux are doing?

They copied it a little bit, but it's very mouse oriented (option-click the green zoom button to snap windows to left/right). Another option for this is Hammerspoon, e.g.: https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette

> They copied it a little bit, but it's very mouse oriented (option-click the green zoom button to snap windows to left/right).

Moom, which is the tool I prefer, similarly shows a popover when hovering over the green button.

Personally I prefer this sort of approach and wish it could be replicated on other OSes. The Aero Snap way of doing things with the noisy “should I snap here” animations are annoying and too easy to accidentally trigger.

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Post by tstrimple »

cesarvarela wrote: post #8

Enable three finger drag.

Most annoying change Apple made was hiding this in the accessibility menu. Should be default behavior. It's one of the major reasons I adore the Mac Book touch-pad. On Windows I'd have to do this weird multi-tap and hold and hope I could drag far enough or repeat the gesture. Three finger drag is just second nature to me now.

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Post by jjuliano »

I love this opinionated setup, very insightful. For example, I didn't knew anything about Mullvad, or a combination of fonts that looks good. However, I just used emacs, firefox, spotify and inkscape, and that's just it.

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Post by radicality »

jjuliano wrote: post #3

install homebrew first, then install the rest using homebrew.

Keep a Brewfile around of the apps you always want installed, and then it’s just a simple one-liner to install everything from the Brewfile!

There’s even an option to add into the Brewfile apps from official apple App Store (like Xcode etc).

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Post by simula67 »

whatever1 wrote: post #6

I find hilarious the fact that we need to buy & install a windowing tool because the native OS window system has been broken for the past 40 years. Can't they just copy what windows and linux are doing?

Is there a Mac app to copy Windows' windowing behavior?

I want different virtual desktops to behave like they are different computers with a shared clipboard, i.e., I don't want to see apps from other virtual desktops showing up on 'Alt-Tab', dock bar to show all open apps, etc.

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