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There does need to be a good OSS equivalent of the mac's user interface to allow for people to jump ship. Not graphically styled the same, but the actual UX. E
by sudont 16y ago
There does need to be a good OSS equivalent of the mac's user interface to allow for people to jump ship. Not graphically styled the same, but the actual UX.
Everything out there is based on Windows' taskbar style of [window > application > menu], whereas mac is roughly [application > menu > window], and allows for applications to be running in the foreground with no open windows. If there was a nix window manager that operated like this, I'd be making preparations to jump ship now.
Unfortunately, everything seems to be taskbar-based with menus attached to each window. And the only attempt at improvement is that there's some pride in trying to cram more widgets on a taskbar.
Alt-tabbing is another area for improvement: on the mac command tab switches between applications, whereas on windows it switches between windows.
I know this is personal preference, but the Windows taskbar literally gives me a headache on a daily basis.
- kamechan 16y agoubuntu is coming remarkably close these days, and i think 11 will be even better. it's just that it's not fully functional on newer macbook pros yet. not sure when support will get there for things like "automatic graphics switching" either. but when if/when it does, i'll probably jump ship. i just get a warm feeling from using ubuntu. i've already got it loaded on my old white macbook and it works great.