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> Reverse scrolling? It's an option on the touchpad / mouse settings to scroll naturally/unnaturally Yes, but do you want to have different setting for your tr
by jiiam 10y ago
> Reverse scrolling? It's an option on the touchpad / mouse settings to scroll naturally/unnaturally
Yes, but do you want to have different setting for your trackpad and mouse at the same time? You need a third party software. It's not as bad as I told the story
> Going to sleep - it's under power options in Settings
But I don't want to open the settings and change the behavior of the whole system if I right now need to have it awake for 10 minutes. Sure I could launch `caffeinate` on a terminal, but a clickable applet would be better. But of course it's either paid or buggy.
> writing to NTFS is not a problem they care about.
As to say, they don't care about something very basic that their users might need and don't need much implementation.
In fact I think you can simply `mount -t <ntfs_or_something>` your drive or add a line to `/etc/fstab`, but you won't have it in finder.
> When's the last time you wrote to ext4 or HFS+ on Windows natively without extra tools?
This just makes windows a worse OS. If you compare it to a real OS, like your favorite linux variant, you can.
> Do we get upset with Microsoft because they don't support HFS+?
Actually I do. This is exactly what I'm talking about: it's just a business practice to enforce their own standards, since the whole implementation wouldn't be so hard: they could just add a pop up upon installation that says "This software is not guaranteed to work, use at your own risk".
In the end, it is clear that a OS which support more FSes (especially the most widespread ones) is better than the same OS without that feature, and I say we should complain that we can't get it.
- 72deluxe 10y agoSo if I'm right, you're complaining that MacOS and Windows aren't Linux? I think you are expecting the wrong thing from the OS. How do you keep Windows awake for 10 minutes only? Proper NTFS support on Linux is only recent (and I don't think it supports all the excellent features of NTFS). If an OS vendor adds in support for something that is only partial or offers messages regarding "this isn't really supported", either a) nobody would use it, or b) people would use it and complain. It is safer to release something complete, or not at all. And since "typical" Mac users aren't trying to mount ext4, ReiserFS, XFS or NTFS on their machines I can see why they would not support it. For comparison, when's the last time you used COM or DCOM on Linux or Mac? When's the last time you ran a Cocoa app on Linux? Does it sicken you that RedHat and SUSE won't pull their finger out and support these technologies? Why doesn't RedHat release a driver for SQL Server ODBC support independent of Microsoft? They must be attempting to force their own Linux-centric monopoly! You can see how foolish this sounds. It is based on unrealistic expectations.