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Post by karmakaze »

gloryjulio wrote: post #244
karmakaze wrote: post #151

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I never really understood the appeal of tiling window managers. I've gotten used to having overlapping windows with appropriate parts peek out out behind others. e.g. tail of a log behind an editor running a program, and I can bring it to the foreground to see older lines and/or scroll. To do the same with a tiling manager, I would zoom the logging pane. I suppose I just prefer less layout changes. Same for Slack, I…

I used 40 inch screens for many years. Tiling is must have for big screens and it works better than multiple screens combined togather

I have a 43" monitor and I don't tile my windows because the corners are so far away. I tend to make a 'fat cross' of overlapped windows that don't really use the corner areas.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by BenFranklin100 »

cassianoleal wrote: post #127
mortenjorck wrote: post #101

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I'm honestly surprised and disappointed that all they appear to have done is Sherlock Rectangle. Stage Manager was the most interesting and useful thing to happen to window management in over a decade, and I was really hoping we'd see Apple do more with it. Its dynamic nature (windows don't always live in just a single context!) solved a lot of problems inherent in Spaces, and yet there's still plenty of room to buil…

I disabled Stage Manager after trying it out for a week or so. How the hell does that thing make any sense? Really, this is a legit question. How is that thing useful?

The use case for myself is when I have to focus on a specific task/project and I have three or four applications I need to alternate between. It’s quite useful for that. Once the task is completed, I turn it off.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by aurareturn »

spartanatreyu wrote: post #197
xnx wrote: post #43

I'm very productive in Windows, but Microsoft's recent behavior (jamming Windows full of Edge dark patterns and ads) and the improvement of window management in macOS tempts me to give it another try.

I've used Windows solely for gaming and MacOS solely for MacOS/iOS development (work). But now... - Windows is full of AI/Adware bloat with more getting added every few months - Linux's gaming/nvivia support has come such a long way that in some games it's beating Windows in some benchmarks now - Apple's app store policies over the last 10 years have caused so many issues that our company is switching everything to w…

You don’t have to use the App Store on MacOS.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by aurareturn »

sircastor wrote: post #177

The commentary stream I was watching described it as "An whole lot of Sherlocking going on": Passwords app, Window Snapping, iPhone to mac Display mirroring. It feels especially tone deaf that they're doing it at their developer conference If you're unfamiliar with the term, "Sherlocking" is the act of Apple introducing some 3rd-party's App features as a core component of the operating system, essentially obviating t…

What’s the problem? 99% of Mac users would never download and use those apps due to convenience. But if Apple builds the features into the OS, it will get used much more and benefit the users.

I don’t use a password manager. I refuse to pay a subscription for one. Yet, I’ve been wanting Apple to convert Keychain into a real password manager for a long time. They actually did it and I’m happy.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by TylerE »

karmakaze wrote: post #250
TylerE wrote: post #183

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You can solve that easily with the free rectangle app today.

I have Rectangle installed and the only feature I use is dragging a window to the left or right edge to use half the screen. I don't even know if that's from Rectangle or macOS. The other thing I do is double-click edges to expand to edge of screen, which I assume is macOS.

It had let unable shortcuts to snap windows into various tile layout type configurations

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by carlosjobim »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #195
carlosjobim wrote: post #136

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Individual people are allowed to opine about how the world should work.

Hackers are really something else... Would it sound normal to you if somebody started demanding things that "should be readily available to me" as a response to advice on how to solve a problem. Nobody here owes you anything, so try acting polite if you actually want something that you don't have. Unless you are actually the chairman of the central committee, in which case I apologize for the transgression, comrade.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by graeme »

bsimpson wrote: post #98

My corp desktop is an iMac Pro (2018). For a long time, it was the best way to get a Retina-quality desktop without getting into VFX budgets. It was also in that weird period in Apple's product calendar when the one-and-done trash can was obsolete, but its replacement hadn't been released. Work usually issues whatever panels they can buy in bulk from overseas, but for a magical window, we could get a nice screen with…

The line seems to have been drawn at the T2 chip.

One thing I can tell you though is that Intel has EOL’ed the chip in the iMac Pro. Meaning no more security support for the chip.

So I’m not sure the iMac Pro will get the next update. Though possible Apple has found a way to mitigate any security issues.

This is the best article I found on the topic. Note also that once the iMac Pro is out of support, it’s os will still get security updates for two years past that.

So with this announcement today we are guaranteed security support until Oct 2027 or so.

I own an iMac Pro and was pleasantly surprised today. Had been concerned the Intel EOL might end things.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/with-macos-sonoma-in...

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Post by gloryjulio »

karmakaze wrote: post #251
gloryjulio wrote: post #244

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I used 40 inch screens for many years. Tiling is must have for big screens and it works better than multiple screens combined togather

I have a 43" monitor and I don't tile my windows because the corners are so far away. I tend to make a 'fat cross' of overlapped windows that don't really use the corner areas.

43 inch is just 4 21.5inch monitors put together, you can look 1 tile at a time and ignore the rest. Literally just treat it as 4 screens and don't forget to move your head.

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by lowkey »

threeseed wrote: post #198
sircastor wrote: post #172

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I generally agree with you. I use my Mac with most of the windows overlapped most of the time. But occasionally I need them side-by-side to do some work. Typically referencing documents or code. Fortunately the introduction of this looks to just be an optional feature rather than a dictated "way things are". An overlapped/stacked interface is fine a lot of the time, but the flexibility is important. What really drive…

You can always run apps full screen. Then it's possible to have them side by side.

I wish there was a keyboard shortcut to run apps full screen

Re: macOS Sequoia Preview

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Post by freediver »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #95
nofunsir wrote: post #81

Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…

Safari has issues with audio pitch correction on sped up videos.

Rather WebKit used to have this, and it was fixed a year ago.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191053#c31

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/9489#issuecomment-1519...

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