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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.
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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!
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>* POSIX scripting and CLI. Windows has WSL which gets better in the new Creator's update. >* Touchpad support. I don't use laptops, but I've heard good things about the touchpad in the Surface line, and Dell XPS. >* Superb discoverability of power user features with in-app help system and hotkeys displayed in the menu. Windows has had hotkeys in menus as long as I can remember. I know they where there in 3.1. If you…
>>* Cmd-C / V work everywhere, including the Terminal. > Ctrl+C/V works in Windows terminal too. If you mean Command Prompt by "Windows Terminal", this is not the case (if not, I'd really like to know what "Windows Terminal" is - I use Command Prompt for DOS/Windows things and Kitty for *nix related things). At least I have had to turn it on explicitly in the Command Prompt options (quick edit mode), and it's one of…
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I was a MacOS user from System 7 through to Yosemite. I now use Ubuntu 99% of the time (I still have a Mac that I casually use). IMO Ubuntu is now superior to OSX in almost every way. For me, Ubuntu really does "just work", and gives me a vastly better package manager, and the ability to use the i3 window manager, which has fundamentally changed how I use my computer. I am specifically saying "Ubuntu" and not "Linux"…
> IMO Ubuntu is now superior to OSX in almost every way. Out of genuine curiosity, what are the ways it's not superior?
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>Here are things that I'd pay $1,000 on top of the current Macbook Pro model: >- Thiner/Lighter >- Longer Battery Life (5+ hours) >- 32/64GB RAM These goals are diametrically opposed.
The first two points are, but not really the RAM. It's going to be an ounce at most. If they go from two 8GB sticks to two 16GB sticks, it wouldn't change size/weight at all.
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For the other perspective - it actually boggles my mind when I see coworkers with one desktop open with 3-4 windows kinda mushed all around, different sizes, etc. Like, you paid a lot of money for that good display , why are you not using it?! How can you stand having to scroll all over a window to see something, when you could just fullscreen it? Is it that they need to context switch quickly? Why not just use multi…
I am using it, that's the whole point of having multiple windows open. Each window shows whatever is relevant about that context, and it takes up no more space than necessary so I can have as many sources of information visible as I want. Also, it's nice for spacial awareness. I feel a little bit lost when a window takes over the entire screen and blanks everything else out.
It's even better in ubuntu because desktop switching isn't just left/right, it's up down. So I can really think geographically. I guess that's just the kind of brain I have - for example, if I want to look for tickets for a movie I want to see, I search "movie theater" in google maps and click the theater in the location I want to go to, then navigate through ticket buying etc. shrug who knows man
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Thinkpads work out of the box for every regular feature (I had to write a shell script to make my X1 Yoga handle folding it into tablet mode -- ~15 LOC). A thinkpad + ubuntu I think, will hit all your needs. Lenovo preinstalls Ubuntu on some of their thinkpads in some cases (afaict, large enterprises). The thinkpad line IIRC works to use well-supported hardware for Linux. You can check the certification list to be su…
I have a P50. It is a heavy laptop, but it has a mobile NVIDIA GPU which can easily outclass an Intel Iris graphics processor. The only front this laptop falls extremely short is with battery life and weight. The P50 is really good if you need the power and I usually get around 5 hours of battery life without Optimus because it interferes with my workflow under Linux.
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> Thiner/Lighter I can understand lighter, but thinner? Why do you wish for it to be thinner? I consider it to be thin enough.
Thiner makes it easier to manipulate when I'm in Cafes/Airplane/On the Couch.
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> 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 |…
1. It's amazing because Windows-only admins (or predominantly Windows admins with almost no Linux experience) have never seen anything like it before. Until PowerShell, the state of the art was VB scripting or batch files, both of which are (objectively) garbage. Regardless of how long the rest of us have been working with shell scripts, Python scripting, etc., Windows users have never had the opportunity to do similar things with similar tools which are included with the OS.
2. It's amazing because it does a lot of great things that even bash scripting can't do. The idea of passing around structured data can be super handy for a lot of common topics. For example, on Linux I have to use 'ip addr list' to get list of IPs, grep to get just the IPs, awk to get just the IPs, and now I have a list of IP addresses. It's a huge stupid hassle that I have to do every single time I want to write a script that takes advantage of IP addresses.
Making everything a string makes sense when it's 1970 and you want everything to be compatible, but when basically none of the tools I use on a day-to-day basis provide the option for easily machine-parse-able output, it ends up very frustrating. The (theoretical?) promise of Powershell is that all output is machine-parse-able.
The benefit of passing objects around is that you could do things like Get me a list of network interfaces | filter by interfaces which are up | which have IP addresses | just show me the IP addresses. The few examples I've seen make it feel like your shell is some sort of half-bash/half-SQL system where you can filter, process, and loop over objects.
I can't count how many shell scripts I've had to write which parse output to get the list of data I want, then go back over that same output again to do actual work on it. You can hack a lot of stuff together with ugly hacks; getting all the interfaces on a MacOS machine with IPs except loopback? Maybe 'ifconfig | egrep "^[a-z]|inet[^6]" | grep -B1 'inet' | grep '^[a-z]' | grep -v lo' would do it. In most cases. Probably there's a better way to do it, but if you just want to get something written then you can hack it in like this, or loop over 'ifconfig -lu' (which, on my machine, shows 13 'up' network interfaces), etc.
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'm really, really surprised you said thinner/lighter. I have a few years old MacBook Pro and it's already plenty thin and light for a "Pro" laptop. A lot of the other things you list are in direct conflict with thinner/lighter, and Apple's obsession with thinness is probably why you don't have them.