Comment by ecshafer

Comment by ecshafer 4 days ago

I can give you a few examples:

Packages are not done well compared to linux. Brew is a poor replacement. It feels like the terminal and everything involved is constantly out of date.

The OS just has a lot of weird things, like the ribbon at the bottom taking up so much space. When I made is smaller and hidden except on mouse over it was incredibly rough.

Window management is decades behind windows or linux. It doesn't like maximizing windows and doesn't make partitioning screen space easy. I had to download a third party app to make it better, which was still worse than windows even in windows 7, and miles worse than linux with i3.

Mac has a lot of rough spots. I have two external monitors and occasionally after updates one monitor would be fuzzy or different resolutions, and it wouldn't go back until the next update.

kevinrineer 4 days ago

I found myself really frustrated trying to use MacOS at work, because I'm a heavy user of virtual desktops. Turns out, I couldn't find a way to disable animations to switch between virtual desktops on MacOS. If there is a way, I'd be surprised.

Shortening the animation to minimum was not sufficient for my preference.

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subjectsigma 4 days ago

When did you use a Mac last, 2010?

You can run nix on macOS now. You can also drag windows into corners or edges to tile them, it is almost exactly like Windows 7 or 10. You can even have tiling window managers on macOS that emulate i3.

Your complaints with the dock seem like a personal choice... I like the dock behavior but if you don't, probably not a lot that will fix that, it will always suck.

Sad to report that external monitor support is still terrible.

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ecshafer 4 days ago

2024. Dragging windows to the corners isnt how I would do it in windows or linux, I just use a super key and an arrow key and it moves it as needed along the tile. Having to drag a window around is terrible design.

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- subjectsigma 4 days ago
  
  Going all the way back to Windows 7 I preferred dragging to arrow keys, I legitimately don’t understand how that’s “terrible design” and not just a personal preference.
  I would suspect a sizable portion of Windows users didn’t even realize that snapping with the arrow keys was possible, since keyboard shortcuts are (generally) harder to discover than mouse actions.
  
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- al_borland 4 days ago
  
  You can set whatever keyboard shortcut you want if you don’t want to drag the window.
  Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts… > Windows > Quarters
  Make them whatever you think they should be. No one is being forced to drag windows.
  
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