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> Gnome with a dock is basically the same desktop experience - Pick a distro of your choice. No it's not, macOS has a fundamentally different approach to apps

> Gnome with a dock is basically the same desktop experience - Pick a distro of your choice. No it's not, macOS has a fundamentally different approach to apps and windows. Where you open only 1 app instance that can run multiple document windows. You switch between apps, and can then switch between windows in that app. This can partly be immitated in the window manager, but not all apps will work well with this pattern. Also standardized keyboard shortcuts, spelling check, secrets management and general app behaviour is hit and miss on Linux. Whereas on macOS most apps adhere to the human interface guidelines. This consistency and predictability gives me a greater efficiency on Mac over Linux system. I tried going back to Linux for 1,5 years when my then employer didn't allow me to work on a Mac and no matter how much I tweaked it, I could never get the same enjoyment and productivity compared to macOS.

monsieurbanana 6y ago
Nobody asked, yet I'll say it nonetheless: I had the same experience, reversed. Employer gave me a MacBook pro, I tried for a year to get used to it, but no matter how much I tweaked it I couldn't completely get out of the horrible (imo) experience that is Mac os Windows manager. It I want to switch to an open window I'll switch to the freaking opened window, stop trying to hijack what open an app means. Anyways, Mac os isn't bad, but you have to accept to give up a lot of things. It's their way, or nothing.
rbreaves 6y ago
It is time intensive to fix the odds & ends that Linux distros often haven’t. Kinda wish the author of the article would have taken a little more time learning about how easy it is to setup new keybinds in Kinto.sh (xkeysnail).
horsawlarway 6y ago
I mean... you're talking about exactly the same behavior as Gnome with a dock. I have a single application icon, clicking it once brings up the last window I had open. Clicking it twice displays a preview window for each open window, any of which I can click to fullscreen and focus. It's literally the same as the macOS dock, complete the with the dot indicator for number of open windows. Plus my upper left hotcorner displays all application windows, and I have my upper right set to display each window of the current application. They're preeeetty much identical. I'd know - I use both daily.

monsieurbanana 6y ago

Nobody asked, yet I'll say it nonetheless: I had the same experience, reversed. Employer gave me a MacBook pro, I tried for a year to get used to it, but no matter how much I tweaked it I couldn't completely get out of the horrible (imo) experience that is Mac os Windows manager. It I want to switch to an open window I'll switch to the freaking opened window, stop trying to hijack what open an app means. Anyways, Mac os isn't bad, but you have to accept to give up a lot of things. It's their way, or nothing.

rbreaves 6y ago

It is time intensive to fix the odds & ends that Linux distros often haven’t. Kinda wish the author of the article would have taken a little more time learning about how easy it is to setup new keybinds in Kinto.sh (xkeysnail).

horsawlarway 6y ago

I mean... you're talking about exactly the same behavior as Gnome with a dock. I have a single application icon, clicking it once brings up the last window I had open. Clicking it twice displays a preview window for each open window, any of which I can click to fullscreen and focus. It's literally the same as the macOS dock, complete the with the dot indicator for number of open windows. Plus my upper left hotcorner displays all application windows, and I have my upper right set to display each window of the current application. They're preeeetty much identical. I'd know - I use both daily.