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Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by yumraj »

mguerville wrote: post #162
ttepasse wrote: post #113

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> Is there a project somewhere that packages these options into a GUI? There was: Secrets* was both a website were people aggregated a small database of these options and a MacOS preference pane which displayed these: https://web.archive.org/web/20150515104503/http://secrets.bl... https://blog.taylormcgann.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sec... (* by the makers of Quicksilver!) Sadly the project stopped updating in 20…

MacPilot seems like what you’re asking for: https://setapp.com/apps/macpilot

$9.99 a month..

Why would an app like this require a subscription and not a one off payment.

I think many small developers are taking cue from large enterprises on how to price products without thinking it through. There was another similar discussion about a YC macOS notification widget company the other day.

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by imran3740 »

yumraj wrote: post #171
mguerville wrote: post #162

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MacPilot seems like what you’re asking for: https://setapp.com/apps/macpilot

$9.99 a month.. Why would an app like this require a subscription and not a one off payment. I think many small developers are taking cue from large enterprises on how to price products without thinking it through. There was another similar discussion about a YC macOS notification widget company the other day.

The $10/mo is for a subscription to Setapp, which bundles a bunch of apps into one subscription service.

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by notsureaboutpg »

m5l wrote: post #149
notsureaboutpg wrote: post #99

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The defaults aren't powerful, thought they are sensible. Windows (and most Linux DEs like KDE) come with out of the box snapping windows to the four corners of the screen and to the left and right which is perfect for how most people use their laptops. Most people need two separate windows open side by side because most jobs are about synthesizing two separate flows of information in some way (research in one window…

This isn’t true for the last handful of major versions of macOS. It may not be as intuitive as other OSs but you can click and hold (or right-click I think) on the green button in the traffic light to get side by side options.

That's still not as easy as it is to do in Windows/Linux and it still takes more time to do. It's also just one of many examples

But I wasn't aware of this, thanks for adding this info

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by yumraj »

imran3740 wrote: post #172
yumraj wrote: post #171

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$9.99 a month.. Why would an app like this require a subscription and not a one off payment. I think many small developers are taking cue from large enterprises on how to price products without thinking it through. There was another similar discussion about a YC macOS notification widget company the other day.

The $10/mo is for a subscription to Setapp, which bundles a bunch of apps into one subscription service.

There has to be a reason for subscription, as in continued incremental value, cloud data storage and sharing, some sort of server backend that incurs monthly cost to run and so on.

Just slapping a subscription to a regular desktop application doesn't make sense.

Also, bundling is not a justification for a subscription, especially if one only cares about a single application. This is similar to the music albums which have already undergone unbundling and no one wants to see a bundling where there is no benefit to the consumer.

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by gegtik »

sneak wrote: post #119
gegtik wrote: post #98

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This opinion betrays a lack of imagination. There are two equally valid subjective choices here: - does moving your finger up "grab the content" under the glass and move it up, or - does moving your finger up "grab the window", moving it up along a long virtual document? Both are legit mental models, it's a preference.

This would make sense if the choices were equal and opposite. They're not, though, since the advent of smooth scrolling.

how are they not equal and opposite?

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by rPlayer6554 »

linux2647 wrote: post #105
bengale wrote: post #41

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One hour closer to quittin' time!

Or nine if you live on US west coast ;)

So if you have an 8hr work day does that mean your time left to work underflows and the company has to do an hour of work for you?

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by JediPig »

smoldesu wrote: post #86

This is part of the reason I switched to Linux. I've heard so many people say "Linux is free only if you don't value your time" and then turn around and write one of these. If I'm going to go through the trouble of customizing an operating system to fit my needs, I may as well do it with a free and open system rather than MacOS, which can change for the worse at any moment (the dealbreaker for me was dropping 32 bit…

This took a while to understand. Reason why the M1 Processor and architecture is significantly faster than most of whats out there, on slower clock speeds, better battery life.

It is they dumped all the baggage of the previous arch. Including the 32bit world. Apple started out with a design , designed to do one thing. Give a great experience to a user.

Gone are the days of the GPU and CPU handshaking on moving memory from system ram to video ram. Same thing with SSD to main memory..

Removal of bad ideas and implementation of the lessons learned. Reason why FreeBSD is sometimes faster with linux. They dropped the old legacy code and design. Like MacOS, they are free to fix userland.

Linux & windows? Not so much. Linux userland is a horrible mess due to the "dont break the ABI of the kernel" Do you know there are known WONT FIX bugs in the kernel? Linux taught me that the idea of dont break the kernel adds, BLOAT and WONT FIX bugs... till you the mess called 5.11 that is 60 million lines of horrible linux code. No one uses the 32 bit driver of LSILOGIC.

If they do... let the use the older version of linux, its a mistake, proven by the bloat in linux to keep ABI compatibility.

My advice for everyone. Go FreeBSD, go MacOS, for new hardware go with modern arch, and kick the old compatibility out the door.

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by wyuenho »

aeturnum wrote: post #32

I love that this document takes inscrutable OS X settings and translates them into familiar human-readable settings. I have no idea what "NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode" is, but I understand what "Expand save panel by default" means. However, like other people, I'm not sure that I agree with this particular set of changes. Is there a project somewhere that packages these options into a GUI? I know…

https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

Re: Sensible macOS Defaults

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Post by bartvk »

lnwlebjel wrote: post #138

This is the best one: # Display full POSIX path as Finder window title defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool true I don't know how anyone knows where their stuff is without it.

Wow, that's extremely useful!

There is an alternative, in the Finder view menu -> Show Path Bar. It's displayed at the bottom. This will display the path of the current selection, or -- if nothing is selected -- the currently opened folder.

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