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This is a story as old as time. When you’re used to something else the change hurts. I have found it far better to not bring your mental baggage with you and m
by uuyi 5y ago
This is a story as old as time.
When you’re used to something else the change hurts. I have found it far better to not bring your mental baggage with you and meet the new platform as its level rather than try and make it the same as the old one.
I have gone MOS > RiscOS > WinNT -> Solaris -> Linux -> Win7 -> macOS and it hurt every time.
- thanatos519 5y agoIndeed, and the change that hurts me when I try to use a Mac is the fact that there are things that I can't change. I prefer focus-follows-mouse and no-raise on-focus, and those are apparently structurally impossible in macOS. "I can't change it to work the way I like it" is a totally legitimate complaint and Linux has a strong advantage in this regard.
- darkteflon 5y agoFocus-follows-mouse is great. That’s the biggest thing I miss from Linux.
- d3nj4l 5y agoFFM is completely possible on macOS (unless you mean something completely different). I use yabai for it: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
- saagarjha 5y agoYabai requires tiling windows, doesn’t it? This is far easier than general focus-follows-mouse support.
- d3nj4l 5y agoYou can tell yabai to leave your windows alone with yabai -m config layout float And enable FFM with yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autofocus And voila, you have FFM without tiling!
- saagarjha 5y agoI’ve tried implementing focus-follows-mouse on macOS. It’s possible to do, but complicated, because changing focus to an arbitrary window can “mutate” it: popovers will disappear, and selections will shift under your mouse. I don’t think Linux or Windows really support these so they don’t have to deal with this.