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I didn't downvote you, but my perspective on the 'if you want it fixed, do it yourself' thing is this: I've been tinkering with computers for a really long time
by acabal 16y ago
I didn't downvote you, but my perspective on the 'if you want it fixed, do it yourself' thing is this: I've been tinkering with computers for a really long time. I've had some fun times messing around with Linux, tweaking it, getting it set up, etc.
But I'm at the time in my life right now where it's no longer fun jumping through 100 hoops to get something working at an acceptable level. I just don't have time to fix it myself. I have my own codebase and business to take care of, and I want my OS to work with minimum fuss without me having to dig into the Metacity codebase and patch things myself.
It's very true that anyone can fix it themselves, and it is indeed a beautiful aspect of Linux and OSS. But things like resizing windows should just work at this point, because I don't have the time to mess around anymore.
- davidw 16y agoThings like 'focus follows mouse' that I want will never work on Mac OS, because I cannot tinker with the OS. Clearly, things are better if stuff 'just works', but if you have a critical need that isn't being met, open source at least gives you the possibility to fix it, even if it's "expensive".
- gommm 16y agoYou can get focus follows mouse on Mac OS with this http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse OS X is much more hackable than people usually think (although with the disappearance of input managers in snow leopard it's becoming harder)
- nitrogen 16y agoYou can (or could) also get focus follows mouse on Windows using one of the Power Toys applications. OS X may be as hackable as Linux, but it doesn't seem as easy to find out how. It took me days to find the MacOS equivalent to xorg.conf mode lines, for example.