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Ubuntu is really good these days.

If you bought into the apple ecosystem with a recent Mac I’d not bother. But for those of your running a PC Ubuntu is incredible and their new App Store makes finding and installing software super easy. My workstation pc with Ubuntu is insanely faster than my Mac Studio when it comes to jetbrains IDEs. It’s so snappy I first couldn’t believe the performance diff.

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Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones). I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows…

Is it better than Swish? I recently discovered this and it's game changing for trackpad users https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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post #3

Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones). I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows…

Note that you can option double click the corner of a window to make it fill the screen.

I realize that this isn't what you're asking, but it might help.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

#14
A long time ago I started dreading major updates from corporate providers. They push features they want, not features I want. It got so bad with Microsoft that I fled. Apple's updates have been aggressive in resetting my preferences and pushing things like iCloud and their login to the point that they are on the Microsoft path. I am forced to use mac for work but only because of work.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac"

Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence"

They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macbooks. Their models they have demonstrated so far are a relatively low parameter count with LoRA adapters for various use cases.

I have a feeling that the majority of Apple Intelligence will eventually just be farmed out to their "secure cloud" or whatever they were calling it.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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post #11

Ubuntu is really good these days. If you bought into the apple ecosystem with a recent Mac I’d not bother. But for those of your running a PC Ubuntu is incredible and their new App Store makes finding and installing software super easy. My workstation pc with Ubuntu is insanely faster than my Mac Studio when it comes to jetbrains IDEs. It’s so snappy I first couldn’t believe the performance diff.

How would you install Ubuntu on an M1-M3 Macbook?

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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post #11

Ubuntu is really good these days. If you bought into the apple ecosystem with a recent Mac I’d not bother. But for those of your running a PC Ubuntu is incredible and their new App Store makes finding and installing software super easy. My workstation pc with Ubuntu is insanely faster than my Mac Studio when it comes to jetbrains IDEs. It’s so snappy I first couldn’t believe the performance diff.

It has been for 20 years :) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-Septe...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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I updated, and my whole Elixir/JS setup works like before. I like that they _finally_ added window snapping to the window manager, but keyboard shortcuts are still missing from what I can see. Edit: it is possible! take a look at this Reddit post for a workaround https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1dcy6l2/comment/lax9...

There are keyboard shortcuts:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/macos-15-sequoia-the...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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I am usually slow to upgrade but I jumped on this and iOS 18 immediately because of "iPhone Mirroring". I've only had it for a few minutes, but it's really nice!

> iPhone Mirroring is not available in your country or region.

I'm not taking the bait on that one. ;-)
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