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With all the attention being paid to macOS these days, there's enough mods and addon's that I don't miss Linux so much on my laptop. Hammerspoon gets me drag an

by zamnos 4y ago

With all the attention being paid to macOS these days, there's enough mods and addon's that I don't miss Linux so much on my laptop. Hammerspoon gets me drag and resize windows how I want, and there's Rectangle.app for tiling-ish window management. There's no /proc, and all the rest of the cli utilities are just wrong (netstat, route, top, etc) but I can live with my M1. (brew addresses a lot of the issues though, even if I do have to remember to run gdu instead of du (for gnu du))

xk_id 4y ago
yabai is the full featured window manager for macos
JadeNB 4y ago
> With all the attention being paid to macOS these days, there's enough mods and addon's that I don't miss Linux so much on my laptop. One problem that I have is all that all those mods and add-ons are out there, but there's a real mindset that "everything must be an app" and a pursuant mindset that "might as well charge for it". I don't mind paying for a complicated app, but there are certain basic features that used to be served by the freeware model on Macs that just aren't any more, and my impression is that things are heading ever more in that direction. (As well as in the direction of subscriptions over app purchases, which are right out for me for basic utility needs.) You mentioned Rectangle.app and Hammerspoon, which are both open source. Do you have any good recommendations for where to look for other high-quality open-source mods and add-ons for macOS?
- zamnos 4y ago
  What are you looking for? I don't have anywhere specific in mind, but with hammerspoon I find myself writing lua to write the functionality I want. Which I used to do with Linux. Ideally I'd write up and post it on a blog or github somewhere though. Personally I'm okay with paying for software (though I do whine about it from time to time). Yeah it should just be built in functionality, but someone devoted their time to building a thing, so I don't begrudge them a couple bucks for it - so long as it's a one-time purchase and not a recurring subscription model for unchanging functionality.

by zamnos 4y ago

xk_id 4y ago

yabai is the full featured window manager for macos

JadeNB 4y ago

> With all the attention being paid to macOS these days, there's enough mods and addon's that I don't miss Linux so much on my laptop. One problem that I have is all that all those mods and add-ons are out there, but there's a real mindset that "everything must be an app" and a pursuant mindset that "might as well charge for it". I don't mind paying for a complicated app, but there are certain basic features that used to be served by the freeware model on Macs that just aren't any more, and my impression is that things are heading ever more in that direction. (As well as in the direction of subscriptions over app purchases, which are right out for me for basic utility needs.) You mentioned Rectangle.app and Hammerspoon, which are both open source. Do you have any good recommendations for where to look for other high-quality open-source mods and add-ons for macOS?

zamnos 4y ago
What are you looking for? I don't have anywhere specific in mind, but with hammerspoon I find myself writing lua to write the functionality I want. Which I used to do with Linux. Ideally I'd write up and post it on a blog or github somewhere though. Personally I'm okay with paying for software (though I do whine about it from time to time). Yeah it should just be built in functionality, but someone devoted their time to building a thing, so I don't begrudge them a couple bucks for it - so long as it's a one-time purchase and not a recurring subscription model for unchanging functionality.