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Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by q3k »

IshKebab wrote: post #12

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?

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by dpatterbee »

AlexSW wrote: post #35
smackeyacky wrote: post #14

Add: run a docker container without an entire VM.

Not sure whether you know something I don't but I'm not aware of any VM when I'm running Docker containers directly on my Mac?

You might not be aware, but docker desktop is running a linux VM under the hood.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by froh42 »

sirjaz wrote: post #18

You could get all those features and more in Windows, plus you have wsl2 :)

Yep. WSL and WSL2 are great. I used Windows with WSL, upgrade to WSL2 then noticed I don't need the "Windows" part of the system anymore and WSL2 cross-boundary file access is slow, so I deleted Windows and finally installed Linux again on my work laptop. (Used Linux up to 2007, bought a Mac, another Mac, switched to Windows after Apple locked down the system because "Windows has WSL, so I can do my work stuff" and switched back to Linux due to a slow Filesystem under Windows - for my use case).

The only thing that pisses me off, is that the MS-Teams client for Linux is roughly 5 decades behind the Windows client, feature and stability-wise.

(And still have Windows on my private laptop for Fusion360 and games)

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by dredmorbius »

Way back when (2006), chromatic posted a "switching back" article at O'Reilly Radar. Sixteen years (!!!) later, it still holds a great deal of truth. You'll have to dig it up on the Internet Archive though.

Focus-follows-mouse, UI customisability, package management, second-hand citizen status of Linux apps, and a few others. It's also interesting to see what has appeared as supported / possible, on both operating systems.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060613222321/http://www.linuxd...

Page 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613222321/http://www.linuxd...

Page 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613222321/http://www.linuxd...

Page 4: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613222321/http://www.linuxd...

Best I can tell, that was never actually discussed on HN.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by fnord123 »

arinlen wrote: post #23
ilikejam wrote: post #3

I'd pay good money for an 'Always on top' window option on mac.

> I'd pay good money for an 'Always on top' window option on mac. I'd already be happy if maximizing a window on macOS worked reliably.

Use Rectangles. It works better than the traffic light bubbles.

Re: Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

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Post by saagarjha »

> Focus Follow Mouse

> I have multiple screens and multiple windows. I want to be able to hover over a new one and start interacting with it without clicking.

Having attempted to implement this once, doing this is nontrivial. If you try to focus anything under your mouse then you can end up changing the selection state of tables and controls, which is generally undesirable.

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