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To be honest, with respect to just the headline, you could pretty much substitute Windows or Linux in the headline as well. We can dump tech workers, en masse, to be replaced with futuristic Artificial Intelligence and advanced LLMs, but plug in 2 displays and your computer shits itself.
> The Mac operating system still Just. Fucking. Sucks. at remembering where windows were, when relaunching apps. I agree and it's confounding. For me it's even worse: when plugging back into my home office after some work on the road, it doesn't remember the window positions associated with that setup, and I have to reorganize my dozens of windows away from the laptop screen again. I've solved this through a 3rd-part…
Apple might be the only major manufacturer to not provide their own docking solution that work extremely well, beyond trying to do it with a display.
As soon as the "pro" moniker is used, 2, if not 3 monitors are completely normal. Extra wide monitors do not cut it. 3 24" 2k monitors at 2560x1440 can be far preferable to a single ultrawie that barely provides 2 monitors worth of pixels in the same space.
Lenovo, HP, Dell, Microsoft, all have it nailed. Used almost all of them before Apple.
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Huh. After years of mar I tried to go back to windows. I did it for 2 years but I'm so much happier on Mac again. I did kind of like the windows thg of dragging a window to the top to maximise, but that stuff is easy to replace with an app or two. General OS slowness and instability and clunky design not so much.
> General OS slowness and instability and clunky design not so much. I can't tell whether you're talking about Windows or Mac here
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My company has enforced frequent updates of browsers and other software set up, so we are relaunching apps very often, and this drives me crazy. It feels like someone is walking over to your desk and moving everything around, just to annoy you.
Is it a Mac thing to keep applications open? I usually close mine as soon as I'm not actively using them
More ram than you anticipate is like extra lung capacity and working memory. Also an extra year or two out of the laptop. Combined with horsepower it can be an advantage.
Instant switching of apps or screens can have it's benefits, but needs to be managed.
Similar to having more tabs open than normal. Tools like Firefox Spaces are invaluable for switching between multiple client projects.
Waiting for apps to open/load/close can add up significantly throughout a day depending on the variety.
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Yes I think it is, In Mac OS it has always been explicit that an application ≠ window (with only a few exceptions such as the calculator app). Closing an app window must not quit the application. This is reinforced by the menu bar which is always at the top of the screen rather than attached to an application window.
Why is that? I'm a gnome/Linux user who had to switch to Mac M3 for work. Macos feels.... Half baked. I don't understand why apps should run after I close the window. I'm also annoyed that I can't type the window I want when viewing all windows. If I open mission control, it takes 3 clicks on the dock to run the app. (Un-do mission control, focus the dock, run the app.) That being said, I do like stage manager, I try…
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My company has enforced frequent updates of browsers and other software set up, so we are relaunching apps very often, and this drives me crazy. It feels like someone is walking over to your desk and moving everything around, just to annoy you.
yabai is the closest you can get to i3/sway like tiling window management on macOS, and its config allows fixing an app always to open in a certain workspace.
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> General OS slowness and instability and clunky design not so much. I can't tell whether you're talking about Windows or Mac here
Windows are not bad if you have control over them. But in corp env, you don't and the force updates, AV, FW, extra AV scans and other monitoring shit so even with 32 GB of RAM, fast SSD and latest i7 PC would start to act like it's Win98. That's why I switch to Mac M2, zero corporate shit and total control so it works great.
I remember some problem with programs hanging and/or slow to start because the phoning home functionality was having issues.
edit: yep, it does https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/391379/does-macos-...
To be honest, with respect to just the headline, you could pretty much substitute Windows or Linux in the headline as well. We can dump tech workers, en masse, to be replaced with futuristic Artificial Intelligence and advanced LLMs, but plug in 2 displays and your computer shits itself.
- physically block the hot plug detect pin on all of your display cables. Now you can turn off your monitor!
- PersistentWindows (slow to put everything back, jumps around virtual desktops)
Bonus points for everything related to 'windows' and 'virtual desktops' being un-googleable terms.