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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by prewett »

bigfudge wrote: post #105
phren0logy wrote: post #10

Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

As someone who never uses spaces or any window manager, what am I actually missing? What’s wrong with cmd tab and just switching between apps? Is this going to be some Kind of major epiphany?!

Spaces is what used to known in Linux as virtual desktops (maybe it still is), and that is how I think of it. Or as virtual monitors. Right now I have desktop one for local system iTerm2 and Firefox, desktop two for client 1 (terminals, IntelliJ IDEA), desktop three for client 2 (VirtualBox, terminals), desktop four for incidental stuff that needs a mostly empty desktop, and desktop five for Chrome (for things that need it), and GIMP and Inkscape (as needed). This way everything stays where I put it, including which windows over which other ones. So I can switch to D1 to look up some documentation on a function, then back to D2 to use that knowledge. Or on my personal laptop I can keep my coding project up one desktop and do the daily web surfing on another, and just switch desktops to have the coding project right where I left it.

(You do use a window manager, btw, it's the thing that puts the title bars on your windows and lets you move them around. On macOS it's integrated in, but on Linux you have to choose one. There are many, all of which have some failing. Except for sawfish, whose failing is that it is no longer maintained.)

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by gib444 »

I installed Debian stable + i3 + x11 on a desktop today - what a breath of fresh air (not that I'm new to Linux) compared to MacOS. No bloat. No animations. No lag. A perfect tiling WM.

No Secure Boot, no TPM, no SIP, no phoning home to the mothership to check if I'm allowed to launch an app, no spyware, no telemetry, no update nags, no trying to trick me into upgrading to the next major version.

I tried Sway & Wayland but IntelliJ freaked out so I went to x11

Also Nouveau seems pretty damn good these days.

KeepassXC works much better on Linux which is nice.

I'm keeping my M4 Macbook Air around for a while to play with local LLMs but it's not exactly the best for that, so I'll think it'll be on eBay not before long, because MacOS is getting more and more annoying...

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by mrguyorama »

veber-alex wrote: post #70
aylmao wrote: post #52

I grew up with this animation so I didn't consider it annoying until I bought a new Macbook a couple years ago. I noticed sometimes I would press keyboard shortcuts before my system's focus had switched. Just little stumbles here and there, some inoffensive, some annoying, but who knows maybe I didn't catch enough sleep. Over time it happened often enough that I decided to google it, and it turns out my muscle memory…

This is such an insane bug to still have around all these years. Are apple engineers not using macOS?

Even if they did, what are they going to do? File a bug report that will sit at the bottom of the priority pile forever?

Devs don't set priorities. Software "Engineers" largely don't get to engineer at all.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by willempienaar »

satvikpendem wrote: post #15
walthamstow wrote: post #11

I never run more than one space and instead switch between windows with the app Alt Tab

I do both, Alt-Tab works well for spaces as well since it can discriminate which window is in which space.

Yes. Alt-tab makes MacOS actually usable

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by braebo »

zlies wrote: post #90

Honestly, this animation in one of the best things about spaces in macOS. I use the four finger gesture to switch spaces all the time and it make the spaces feature so much more natural than all other window managers I’ve used before

Same but it’s certainly too slow.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by crooked-v »

mrkpdl wrote: post #99

I use spaces constantly, and I’ve never thought about the animation - I don’t think I’d ever noticed it to be honest. So it’s really interesting to read all the comments here about how frustrated people are with it. This is not a defence of it just genuine interest - I bet there are totally different parts of the OS that bother me that don’t bother others also.

Try it on an ultrawide monitor. For me it's literally nauseating to leave it turned on, as in, it actively triggers motion sickness with a monitor that width.
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