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I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is th

I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.

fastball 9y ago
What exactly makes you hate MacOS?
- daguava 9y ago
  Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world. To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.
  - pingiun 9y ago
    This really is the easiest thing to fix in macOS, just install magnet (in the app store). I does window snapping in all the places, with shortcuts too.
    - fastball 9y ago
      I've also had good luck with Moom.
  - fastball 9y ago
    I see where you're coming from. Hell, I remember using Linux 15 years ago and having better space management than I have in MacOS today. I honestly hate how they nerfed spaces and made it much harder to work with many applications, or on many projects. Just give me project contexts, dammit! Windows is just as bad, if not worse these days though.
  - Walkman 9y ago
    You just buy Moom and problem solved. https://manytricks.com/moom/ https://manytricks.com/moom/
Ologn 9y ago
It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it. This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu. That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.
- derefr 9y ago
  Your Xcode project directory probably had spaces in its path somewhere (which, for reasons of rather outdated conventions, is less common to encounter under Linux.) Like with any other Unix, dealing with spaces in the arguments passing through a pipeline to xargs(1) requires the NUL-delimited style: find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep abcd or you can stop worrying about the spaces by letting find(1) handle them: find . -exec grep abcd \{\} \; or, even better, get grep(1) to do the whole job (which also has the advantage of tagging each found line with the filename the result was found in): grep -R abcd .
- emmelaich 9y ago
  My iTerm2 disappeared in the upgrade to High Sierra. I don't know why. I started to use the standard terminal and found it much more responsive that iTerm2. I never used most of the iTerm2 features anyway. I'm sticking to the standard terminal for the time being.
platinumrad 9y ago
Seconding homebrew being the one of the few things that makes using OS X bearable. Pqrs also gets my turkey day thanks for making Karabiner, which is another one of those things.

fastball 9y ago

What exactly makes you hate MacOS?

daguava 9y ago
Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world. To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.
- pingiun 9y ago
  This really is the easiest thing to fix in macOS, just install magnet (in the app store). I does window snapping in all the places, with shortcuts too.
  - fastball 9y ago
    I've also had good luck with Moom.
- fastball 9y ago
  I see where you're coming from. Hell, I remember using Linux 15 years ago and having better space management than I have in MacOS today. I honestly hate how they nerfed spaces and made it much harder to work with many applications, or on many projects. Just give me project contexts, dammit! Windows is just as bad, if not worse these days though.
- Walkman 9y ago
  You just buy Moom and problem solved. https://manytricks.com/moom/ https://manytricks.com/moom/

Ologn 9y ago

It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it. This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu. That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.

derefr 9y ago
Your Xcode project directory probably had spaces in its path somewhere (which, for reasons of rather outdated conventions, is less common to encounter under Linux.) Like with any other Unix, dealing with spaces in the arguments passing through a pipeline to xargs(1) requires the NUL-delimited style: find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep abcd or you can stop worrying about the spaces by letting find(1) handle them: find . -exec grep abcd \{\} \; or, even better, get grep(1) to do the whole job (which also has the advantage of tagging each found line with the filename the result was found in): grep -R abcd .
emmelaich 9y ago
My iTerm2 disappeared in the upgrade to High Sierra. I don't know why. I started to use the standard terminal and found it much more responsive that iTerm2. I never used most of the iTerm2 features anyway. I'm sticking to the standard terminal for the time being.

platinumrad 9y ago

Seconding homebrew being the one of the few things that makes using OS X bearable. Pqrs also gets my turkey day thanks for making Karabiner, which is another one of those things.