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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by coryfklein »

notduncansmith wrote: post #357
issa wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My number one complaint about OSX is also window management. I've never found anything comparable to the way Windows 7 let you use the left/right arrows to line up windows on half the screen. That is the only thing I miss about Windows, but it's a pretty big one. Also, when dis/connecting monitors on OSX, windows often get lost. ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

I use Spectacle for this, simplest thing I've found so far: https://www.spectacleapp.com

I second the Spectacle recommendation, but it is frustrating that you have to download an APP to do something that should be built into the window manager.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by themodelplumber »

tbrock wrote: post #322
bathyspheric wrote: post #185

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My only vim customization is `:imap kj `. Takes 10s to write into a .vimrc on any new computer.

Just use ctrl-c, no configuration necessary

I use that method too. When I found out it was available I ditched my experiments with jj, jk, etc. This and finding out how many users just use / for most of their higher-level navigation needs has helped me quite a bit.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by scott_karana »

VelNZ wrote: post #293
zeveb wrote: post #284

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> There is absolutely no way I will ever use Windows and having to downscale to an iMac or, worse, a MacBook Pro, when my Mac Pro is finally too old was filling me with dread. There is a third choice: Linux. I've been using it as my desktop for 18 years now, and it really is wonderful. With a tiling window manager (no GNOME, no KDE, just X11) the UI gets out of my way and lets me work. Yeah, I do kinda sorta wish tha…

Yep, that's where I'd go if forced to. I've seen some pretty nice screenshots from the newest window managers of late. I value design and ease of use quite a bit though and the number of complaints about things not working or tools not being as good (think Adobe CS) on Linux puts me off.

You could always spin it up in a VM to get a general sense of the UI and software compatibility. :-)

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by coryfklein »

georgespencer wrote: post #351
issa wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My number one complaint about OSX is also window management. I've never found anything comparable to the way Windows 7 let you use the left/right arrows to line up windows on half the screen. That is the only thing I miss about Windows, but it's a pretty big one. Also, when dis/connecting monitors on OSX, windows often get lost. ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

Not sure what specifically you're talking about here, but if you wanna line up two windows side-by-side you can long click on the green "full screen" traffic light button in the top left of an app's window (e.g. Word), and choose which half of the screen you want it to maximise in. Then do the same for another running app in the other half and it'll split the screen between two apps at full size.

Okay, I just long clicked (5 seconds) on the green button and all it did is maximize the window. Tried long click + drag, didn't work. What am I missing?

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by dr_ick »

SonicSoul wrote: post #308
csomar wrote: post #178

Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? I mean Windows is good, but nowhere good as OS X. And please, don't tell me Ubuntu or other linux flavors. They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations). Also god forbid you have a problem (especially a har…

I love OSX but never understood why people pay so much for those apple displays. we use them at work and they suuuuuck. super heavy, can't adjust height, can't put it in portrait mode which is .. I don't know useful 40% of the time, glares like a mofo, and cost 2x-3x similar quality displays from not Apple. Is the look of them that desirable? i finally switched for same reso Dell units on my desk and really happy abo…

People buy those Apple monitors because they are guaranteed to work to with Apple computers.

At least that is the reasoning. They can complain to their local Apple Store to make it work.

Most end users have no clue, and they don't enjoy researching, so they don't know they could get something better for less money.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by shadowmint »

yokohummer7 wrote: post #253
Keyframe wrote: post #238

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From my perspective: If MacOS had: up-to-date OpenGL support, Nvidia made drivers that supported new cards for it, was not locked into Mac hardware - that would be tremendous. On the other hand, if Windows had a proper shell and cli tools, like cygwin with zsh, but native and not Ubuntu layer inside - that would be tremendous. If Linux, any desktop variant (Fedora my poison), had Adobe's support for their DCC apps an…

> On the other hand, if Windows had a proper shell and cli tools, like cygwin with zsh, but native and not Ubuntu layer inside - that would be tremendous. It is PowerShell, and it really is. Until recently I thought Windows had poor CLI support, and I discovered PowerShell and now I favor it even more than bash. Am I crazy? Possibly, but PowerShell is truly a piece of gem in the CLI history. It is a thoughtfully craf…

    It is a thoughtfully crafted product regarding what
    "command-line interface" should look like.
How so?

I've never appreciated what's actually good about powershell... you pass objects around? So...? Is that a thing that's useful?

If you want to just automate a task, having intermediate objects that are serializable (eg. strings) so you can `foo ... > blah` and inspect the value of blah before continuing (`cat blah | command2...`) has always seemed far more tangibly useful.

Having methods on an object you can invoke like a REPL for the OS sounds like a good idea, but I've never actually found it useful; its like the python REPL; useful for prototyping and doing stuff after you've imported the 50 packages and setup all of the environment, but once you open a new instance, you've got to spend the time doing that before you can actually do any work; and its useless for scripting.

...but, powershell gets a lot of love from people; so what do you actually find it useful for?

Honestly curious, I've only ever touched it briefly and then swapped over to other things.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by kayoone »

issa wrote: post #318
Eun wrote: post #222

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Window management in OSX is horrible. Finder is even more horrible. It reminds me of the Windows 95 Explorer. A network drive hangs? Good luck with Finder..., the whole system halts.

My number one complaint about OSX is also window management. I've never found anything comparable to the way Windows 7 let you use the left/right arrows to line up windows on half the screen. That is the only thing I miss about Windows, but it's a pretty big one. Also, when dis/connecting monitors on OSX, windows often get lost. ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

as you can see by the answers, there are lots of options :) Personally i use Spectacle and it works great for me

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by lemoncucumber »

m_fayer wrote: post #403
Eun wrote: post #222

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Window management in OSX is horrible. Finder is even more horrible. It reminds me of the Windows 95 Explorer. A network drive hangs? Good luck with Finder..., the whole system halts.

The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.

Cmd-shift-G lets you enter a path (with tab completion) in the Finder or in any open/save dialog

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

guinness74 wrote: post #30

If Apple seems intent on making things right with its high-end desktop consumers, I wonder what that means for those of us pining for the return of the esc key on the MacBook Pro.

I'm sure it's been pointed out to you before, but there's a system-level option to map the Caps Lock key to Escape. It took me about a day to adjust, never looked back.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Post by coryfklein »

scott_karana wrote: post #419
antfarm wrote: post #337

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I think the parent post was referring to the design of Apple displays, not their display quality ...

The "you can only tilt" design that forces you to put them on boxes merely to change height? ;-)

No, I don't think that was the aspect of the design he was referring to.
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