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> Window snapping Not built-in, but the open source https://rectangleapp.com/ supports window snapping by mouse and via shortcuts.
My biggest bug bears with macOS: - No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All a new workspace achieves is making it difficult for me to switch between this app and my other apps! (individual apps can implement this, and some like VLC do, but most apps don't) - No native support for containerisation. Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally eve…
For full screen on same workspace: option+maximize button or double click on title bar (works with some applications)
My biggest bug bears with macOS: - No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All a new workspace achieves is making it difficult for me to switch between this app and my other apps! (individual apps can implement this, and some like VLC do, but most apps don't) - No native support for containerisation. Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally eve…
When you hold ALT while clicking the maximize button it should work. There used to be a setting for this when they introduced it.
Some things in that list are pretty silly (can you really blame Apple for not letting you swap the mouse button order or have the insane focus-follows-mouse option?) Here are some others anyway: * Record system audio. * Control HDMI audio volume (have to use Proxy Audio Driver which is somewhat buggy). * Set mouse acceleration (you used to be able to but they removed the option and now you can only set sensitivity).…
> the insane focus-follows-mouse option Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour?
That's my biggest pain when I try to work on a Mac. I bet no-raise-on-focus also sounds insane to the same people, but I only want a window to come to front when I as for it. The article even touches on a simple case of this in "Sometimes I want to keep the calculator on screen while I type an email. Is that too much to ask?"
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In system preferences, under accessibility, there’s an option to “reduce motion” or something that removes that annoying animation. It’s great!
While this gets rid of the animation itself, the transition to the workspace takes the same amount of time.
But some of these may help. There may be more (or less), it's been a while.
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.003
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.15
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true
Seems like the obvious tradeoffs you'd expect, mostly lack of control/ability to change things, which I'd expect of MacOS. In return you get stability, Apples locked down approach means the OS is far more predictable. Linux in my view takes the reverse approach, you lose stability relative to MacOS in exchange for complete control. Historically Windows has sat somewhere in the middle, though in recent years with all…
I also manage my own Ubuntu desktop for work, and had to reinstall the system 3 times from scratch because it magically stopped working. In the end it turned out to be something with a new kernel, but it took me, dunno, 2 days to debug.
My biggest bug bears with macOS: - No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All a new workspace achieves is making it difficult for me to switch between this app and my other apps! (individual apps can implement this, and some like VLC do, but most apps don't) - No native support for containerisation. Containers/Docker are a great technology, but even on my M1 mac where literally eve…
> No way to fullscreen a window without moving it into a separate workspace. All When you hold ALT while clicking the maximize button it should work. There used to be a setting for this when they introduced it.
I had to use a Mac at work some time ago. Here's my list: * Cannot drag to copy, middle-click to paste. * No way to disable sticky keys lock. * No way to set ESC as Caps Lock. * No way to set a keyboard shortcut for each specific language. (I use five) * Alt-tab to an _Application_, not a _Window_. How many times will I Alt-Tab to.... nothing! * Return from sleep will rearrange the order of the connected monitors, ev…
Wait you want to set ESC as caps lock? I personally set Caps Lock to ESC but never heard of anyone wanting to do the other way around…
As a VIM user, I prefer the Escape function closer, where the Caps Lock key is. But having the old Esc key function as Caps Lock allows KDE to recognize it to swap languages.
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Go on then, you start
I'll start with things that I'm happy to have in mac that didn't have in Linux :) - Cannot run a bunch of programs that stay on the topbar, like LINE ( https://line.me/en/ ), Kap ( https://getkap.co/ ), etc. I am a fairly heavy user of Kap and I love the interface, so this is probably the biggest differentiator for me. I can use Gimp, Inkscape, etc. on Mac so this is not really reversible. - The visual quality of the…
The visual quality of a well-themed KDE or similar DE is imo above and beyond anything macOS can do.
In 2022, booting a new OS update is not a problem that exists anymore on Linux. If you use a rolling release, you don't even need to worry about major updates, they're not a thing. Meanwhile, update hell on macOS has been a big issue for me in the past.
As far as drivers, ime on dozens of laptops there is no real issue beyond GPUs on laptop (Optimus) and WiFi, also pulseaudio isn't a thing anymore. But it's a "cry once" kind of situation.