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> akin to tinkering/customizing on Linux. Interesting and fun but not really something you want when you want your tools to get out of your way and just get thi

> akin to tinkering/customizing on Linux. Interesting and fun but not really something you want when you want your tools to get out of your way and just get things done. That's rich. I use MacOS for development out of mere inertia but my god does it require a lot of tweaking work and pricey paid apps to become a useable environment. * Finder is the worst file manager I've ever seen. Gotta replace it with Path Finder. * The command+tab/command+` distinction is ridiculous. Gotta buy Contexts so that you can switch between windows. * The dock is a horrid workflow for launching apps and Spotlight is terrible. Gotta buy Launchbar. * No on-screen window switcher without the Dock so I've set up dedicated hotkeys for all my apps. This requires jumping through some absurd hoops to do with Automator, or installing Apptivate. * Windows move all over the place when I connect and disconnect my monitors. Gotta buy Stay. * There's no way to turn off mouse acceleration for USB mice. Gotta buy a third-party USB driver. * The built-in firewall has no way to control outgoing connections. Gotta buy Little Snitch. * How do you live without a clickable calendar on the menubar? Need to install Itsycal. Etc etc etc, just to make it useable as a modern operating system.

ilikehurdles 8y ago
It sounds more like you wanted OS X to be some totally different operating system and refuse to learn the "OS X" way of doing things. >* How do you live without a clickable calendar on the menubar? Need to install Itsycal. By moving the pointer to the right sidebar and clicking my calendar (or, more often, typing calendar in spotlight). You can also swipe left from the right edge of the trackpad with two fingers. * Finder is the worst file manager I've ever seen. Gotta replace it with Path Finder. Path Finder looks nice, but from my experience windows file manager is from a prehistoric era, while some linux file managers are decent and some aren't. * The command+tab/command+` distinction is ridiculous. Gotta buy Contexts so that you can switch between windows. Why is it ridiculous? And contexts just sounds like a subset of what spotlight already does. There are also gestures if you need to see the window overview. Ie bottom-left hot zone for me is for seeing windows+recent docs of the current application (it's called App Expose, also set to four-finger swipe down), top left is Mission Control which is the global window switcher (also set to four-finger swipe up). I mostly use cmd+tab/` or spotlight though. * The dock is a horrid workflow for launching apps and Spotlight is terrible. Gotta buy Launchbar. Again, how is spotlight terrible? I've never had a better experience in either Linux or Windows launchers. I don't use the dock either, but there is Launchpad as a visual+text way of launching and searching for apps. For me its a gesture of pinching with thumb and three fingers. * No on-screen window switcher without the Dock Mission Control does that. I've set it up with the four-finger swipe up gesture and also a hot zone in the top-left corner. Also if you want a nice free OSS app for window tiling and arranging, I recommend Spectacle.

ilikehurdles 8y ago

It sounds more like you wanted OS X to be some totally different operating system and refuse to learn the "OS X" way of doing things. >* How do you live without a clickable calendar on the menubar? Need to install Itsycal. By moving the pointer to the right sidebar and clicking my calendar (or, more often, typing calendar in spotlight). You can also swipe left from the right edge of the trackpad with two fingers. * Finder is the worst file manager I've ever seen. Gotta replace it with Path Finder. Path Finder looks nice, but from my experience windows file manager is from a prehistoric era, while some linux file managers are decent and some aren't. * The command+tab/command+` distinction is ridiculous. Gotta buy Contexts so that you can switch between windows. Why is it ridiculous? And contexts just sounds like a subset of what spotlight already does. There are also gestures if you need to see the window overview. Ie bottom-left hot zone for me is for seeing windows+recent docs of the current application (it's called App Expose, also set to four-finger swipe down), top left is Mission Control which is the global window switcher (also set to four-finger swipe up). I mostly use cmd+tab/` or spotlight though. * The dock is a horrid workflow for launching apps and Spotlight is terrible. Gotta buy Launchbar. Again, how is spotlight terrible? I've never had a better experience in either Linux or Windows launchers. I don't use the dock either, but there is Launchpad as a visual+text way of launching and searching for apps. For me its a gesture of pinching with thumb and three fingers. * No on-screen window switcher without the Dock Mission Control does that. I've set it up with the four-finger swipe up gesture and also a hot zone in the top-left corner. Also if you want a nice free OSS app for window tiling and arranging, I recommend Spectacle.