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In this kind of posts, I never see real reasons behind the switch. There are window managers for MacOSX too. OSX could be customized to be minimal enough, etc.

by atmosx 11y ago

In this kind of posts, I never see real reasons behind the switch. There are window managers for MacOSX too. OSX could be customized to be minimal enough, etc. I am sure that you could do the same thing with Windows. Also note that minimalism != productivity.

cgag 11y ago
There is nothing like i3 on osx as far as I know. Im pretty sure you also can't customize it at all to the degree you can customize Linux and *bsd.
- lstamour 11y ago
  Amethyst is a nice tiling WM for OS X... Given that all it does is reposition windows rather than draw them, it's not a replacement, and sometimes gets in the way with incompatible apps, but works well if you're not using 10.11's support of side-by-side windowing, etc. I do hope OS X gets more flexible tiling window managers, but I don't expect it anytime soon.
rubyfan 11y ago
I think he gave a good depiction of his experinece that prompted the switch. I personally understand and share the same frustrations. FTA: Around OS X 10.9, though, things started going wrong. 10.10 improved a few of these things, but overall it just kept degrading. It’s slower, there are a lot of really distracting “features” I can’t seem to actually reliably disable: It’s tied into my phone, and my wife’s phone, so when she adds events I get duplicate notifications (deliver once being a fallacy, I suppose), disrupting me from my work. I disable this, but … It harasses me every day to upgrade. It desperately wants to just upgrade whenever it wants. More and more it acts like the Windows machines I’ve had to support over the last 20 years, which is deeply frustrating. It regularly does things in the background without asking, consuming all my bandwidth (again: most of my work is remote, so I’m particularly sensitive to latency.) And yeah: I’ve disabled all these things. They keep getting re-enabled, and so it’s not hard to take the hint.
lars512 11y ago
The last time I did something like this, I had a couple of reasons: I was sick of using VMs and adjusting their sizes to requirements, I wanted native docker support, I had trouble with some scientific libraries on OS X, and finally at heart I just wanted open source to succeed. Each time I migrated to Linux, it cost me a lot of time. Some things wouldn't work well, others not at all, and some now-essential workflows (like 1Password) just felt awkward to replace. I needed to get stuff done, so I switched back each time. The experience is not good without perfect hardware support from the word go. I've also come to believe that Linux on the Desktop would be better with a stronger paid software ecosystem around it.

by atmosx 11y ago

cgag 11y ago

There is nothing like i3 on osx as far as I know. Im pretty sure you also can't customize it at all to the degree you can customize Linux and *bsd.

lstamour 11y ago
Amethyst is a nice tiling WM for OS X... Given that all it does is reposition windows rather than draw them, it's not a replacement, and sometimes gets in the way with incompatible apps, but works well if you're not using 10.11's support of side-by-side windowing, etc. I do hope OS X gets more flexible tiling window managers, but I don't expect it anytime soon.

rubyfan 11y ago

I think he gave a good depiction of his experinece that prompted the switch. I personally understand and share the same frustrations. FTA: Around OS X 10.9, though, things started going wrong. 10.10 improved a few of these things, but overall it just kept degrading. It’s slower, there are a lot of really distracting “features” I can’t seem to actually reliably disable: It’s tied into my phone, and my wife’s phone, so when she adds events I get duplicate notifications (deliver once being a fallacy, I suppose), disrupting me from my work. I disable this, but … It harasses me every day to upgrade. It desperately wants to just upgrade whenever it wants. More and more it acts like the Windows machines I’ve had to support over the last 20 years, which is deeply frustrating. It regularly does things in the background without asking, consuming all my bandwidth (again: most of my work is remote, so I’m particularly sensitive to latency.) And yeah: I’ve disabled all these things. They keep getting re-enabled, and so it’s not hard to take the hint.

lars512 11y ago

The last time I did something like this, I had a couple of reasons: I was sick of using VMs and adjusting their sizes to requirements, I wanted native docker support, I had trouble with some scientific libraries on OS X, and finally at heart I just wanted open source to succeed. Each time I migrated to Linux, it cost me a lot of time. Some things wouldn't work well, others not at all, and some now-essential workflows (like 1Password) just felt awkward to replace. I needed to get stuff done, so I switched back each time. The experience is not good without perfect hardware support from the word go. I've also come to believe that Linux on the Desktop would be better with a stronger paid software ecosystem around it.