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macOS needs its grid back

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Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by willtemperley »

71bw wrote: post #174
fragmede wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's a setting you can turn off. settings -> desktops and spaces -> reorder spaces

Does it work nowadays? Back in High Sierra days whenever I tried turning this off it did absolutely nothing and still reordered my shit.

Turning off "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" keeps the spaces in the order I left them. That's nice. Three finger swipe between spaces when not using the preview seems to work.

However, swiping beetween the previews, it sometimes jumps to random places in the order - which is not nice.

Possibly a bug, but I might as well just write this as a letter to Santa because it's got more chance of being read than a feeback.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by evanjrowley »

Like GridLion, there are a handful of macOS space organizers that attempt to confine specific apps to specific spaces.

What would be most helpful for my workflow is something slightly different. I need to be able to launch specific browser profiles/windows in these workspaces. One space with all of the tabs for project X, another space with all of the tabs for project Y, and then another with all of the tabs for project Z. These might be in different browser profiles.

I don't see how I can achieve this under the common per-app paradigm of macOS space organizers unless macOS has some notion of Windows/Linux style shortcuts whereby command line arguments can specify the exact things that need to be in the browser window.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by kalleboo »

pjmlp wrote: post #74
jlarocco wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been a while since I dumped OSX and went back to Linux, but IIRC, this setting gets reset every time the system updates. At some point Apple realized the "power user" market was too small, and they were better off treating all of their users like idiots. And that's when I left.

The power user market was never that big for Apple since Mac Classic came to be, that was the target market, the "idiots". Desktop power users were on the Acorn, Amiga, Atari and PC. As NeXT "acquired" Apple, Linux users thought OS X was the UNIX experience they were looking for, and since they were never part of Apple culture, keep getting their expectations wrong.

I don't think Apple was ever really strong with the "idiots" market until the iPhone halo effect came into being, as much as they may have tried in their marketing.

That market always bought the cheapest machine (or "best value", by specs/$) they could find (or, if they were really an "idiot", the machine that Best Buy had the highest commission on), which would be a PC.

In the beige days, Apple's bread was buttered in the publishing market, once they moved to OS X, they got the "professional nerds who wanted UNIX but not doing sysadmin at home".

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by ramathornn »

rpastuszak wrote: post #139
ramathornn wrote: post #39

Magnet is easily one of the best mac apps i've ever purchased - makes window management so easy and it works great every time. Just Command + Shift and then you can pick any portion of the screen you want the window to go to. That paired with multiple desktops does the trick for me! Highly reccommend (not sure if it's okay to share URLs? sorry in case it's not): https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

Is it different from Rectangle? (I've been using it for ages)

looks pretty much identical!

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by ramathornn »

AbuAssar wrote: post #88
ramathornn wrote: post #39

Magnet is easily one of the best mac apps i've ever purchased - makes window management so easy and it works great every time. Just Command + Shift and then you can pick any portion of the screen you want the window to go to. That paired with multiple desktops does the trick for me! Highly reccommend (not sure if it's okay to share URLs? sorry in case it's not): https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

We can do this natively in macos, isn’t it?

Yeah I guess, just a bit clunky I think. For $5 Magnet is awesome!

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by OrangeMusic »

sgustard wrote: post #79
veidr wrote: post #2

This fixes a dozens-of-times-per-day annoyance for me. The grid is good, but even better is the instant virtual display switching. Nowhere is the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts annoyance of modern macOS worse than having to hit Ctrl→→→→→→→ and suffer those repeated animations, over and over.

Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock

Yup. Doesn't work.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by gbhdrew »

Shorel wrote: post #164

The same applies to Linux. I remember the 2x2 grid in Ubuntu 12 being the best desktop UI I had ever used. The current Gnome workspaces with a single row are a huge step backwards in terms of productivity. It must be easier for beginners, but it frustrates me every single day.

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Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by rgoulter »

yubblegum wrote: post #155

> [In my day job working with LLMs] The bulk of my time is spent reviewing This is depressing. I've been out of the field since Covid (after decade_s of work) and basically have to get back to work since kitty is gone, but this is definitely what I signed up for when I started on this career in software engineering. If I'm gonna be reviewing all day, I'd rather manage humans rather than LLMs. How is it affecting mana…

> If I'm gonna be reviewing all day...

I think the point is:

Pre-LLM: 1. think, 2. write code & check, 3. review.

LLM: 1. think, 2. write prompt, , 3. review.

If the thing that you enjoy about programming is writing code, you can have the LLM write code in the style you like. If you enjoyed getting to explore and understand a system, an LLM can help you do that quicker, too.

"Use LLM without thinking" won't get you substantially useful results.

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