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I don't like that you say I am trolling. Kinda makes the discussion hostile. Either you are interested in hearing the experience of someone used to other OS, or
by okamiueru 3y ago
I don't like that you say I am trolling. Kinda makes the discussion hostile. Either you are interested in hearing the experience of someone used to other OS, or you are not.
I agree about the screenshot functionality. I didn't know about CMD+shift+5 (and 4). It was built in, and it is fine. I must have incorrectly assumed it didn't exist since apple hadn't bother respecting the "Print Screen" button.
As for cmd+tab, due to the inconsistencies in the close/minimize behavior, this also means that cmd+tab leads to inconsistent behaviour. You literally either replace cmd+tab with something else (e.g. get used to adding option key in there, or remap the keybindings, or use a third party app). The alternative is to start memorizing which apps behave differently. Which is out of the question. As for what other OS'es do, I cannot speak for W10/11 because I don't want to boot into it. But, for gnome, apps that default to hide instead of closing (e.g. slack) actually hide, so they don't show up in Alt-Tab overview. Those that still show up there will also be brought to the front, as one would expect.
Also, launching spotlight and typing something hitting enter is not the same as having a global key-bind to launch a terminal.
Regarding the finder, perhaps a got a bit biased there. It's probably something different rather than bad. Perhaps just the disbelief that I couldn't use it to cut and paste, and thought "fuck this" and used a terminal, or that I couldn't find the root file system.
In any case, another week has passed, and I've made some more observations:
- Animation between desktops is incorrectly implemented and tied to frames, rather than duration. If you use "ProMotion" i.e. 120hz the animation takes twice as long as when on 60hz. Two seconds compared to one second. Either is ridiculously long. And, of course you cannot adjust this, because Apple has decided what the perfect experience is... Bleh.
- When downloads complete, MacOS will show an animation on the docker for the completed download, which... steals the input focus. Another amateurish bug.
When I thought about having to MacOS professionally, I was prepared for some frustration about bad apple design decisions. I was not prepared for the inconsistencies, the bugs, and seemingly petty refusal to facilitate anything non-apple.
Also, I'm just mentioning things that seem like straight up bugs or deficiencies. There are maaaaany tiny frustrations that are more "alright, this seems like a less useful implemention of what I'm used to". For example if I open the overview I very often think one of two things:
- Ah, I would like to close that app.
- Ah, I don't have that open, so I want to open it.
Neither of these work flows are implemented. For the former, you have to either click the app to bring it up to focus, then close it with Cmd-Q (which is ALSO inconsistent btw. Chome won't let you for example). Or you need to find it in the docker, right click and Quit. Oh, and you cannot do this while the overview is open even though the docker is shown. Right clicking doesn't do anything. Just add it to the pile of tiny inconsistencies fucking everywhere.
And for opening an app, you cannot just type as if you had spotlight open. You have to leave the overview and start spotlight. This isn't all that bad, but, definitely annoying compared to what I'm used to.
Oh, and I had a chuckle as well when I plugged in an external mouse and it asked me to press down' the button to the right of the left shift. Come on... USB peripheral identification isn't that hard.
- rekoil 3y agoYou might be interested in this: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos I don't advise just running Mathias' config as is, but read through it and see if anything seems to be something you want in yours, make the changes, and save it somewhere for the next time you're setting up a Mac. There's some stuff in there about speeding up certain animations (look for "Speed up Mission Control animations"), and about not reordering "spaces" (desktops, full-screen apps, search for "Don’t automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use") based on use which I think may also affect cmd+tab ordering? Not sure, but it's a setting I always change anyway because the default doesn't make sense for power users. About the trolling thing, sorry, I was genuinely not sure if you were arguing in good faith or just making stuff up, as most of the things you were saying were just plain incorrect or dishonest, from comparing desktop computer performance to low-powered laptops, to incorrect statements about features macOS truly excels at.
- okamiueru 3y agoThe dotfile looks like a great collection of minor tweaks. Thanks. I don't know what I lied about on the performance though. The MacBook M2 feels slower and sluggish than what I'm used to. It is of course plenty fast enough for what most people need it for. So, I'm not really saying it's not that. But, on discussions on the Mx architecture, the general opinion is blown out of reality. It started when apple straight up lied and sait it was 3 times faster than the existing competition. They just forgot to mention that existing competition was their own previous offering, which was already mid-range when it was introduced 5 years prior. Take a look at the numbers there and see if that matches your assumptions: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5232vs5183vs4782vs5234vs5258/AMD-Ryzen-9-7945HX-vs-Apple-M2-Max-12-Core-3680-MHz-vs-Apple-M1-Ultra-20-Core-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-7950X3D-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-7840HS https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5232vs5183vs4782vs5234v... So, to clarify, my objections are not against "M1/M2 are good CPUs". They are actually pretty great, especially for how well it is supported and integrated with the rest of the system, allowing for exceptional power usage. But, it's not nearly as fast as many think it is. And it's tiring if/when that's the baseline argument for why apple hardware is great. And, I think they are wildly overpriced, especially when upgrading the hardware to the bare minimum for a serious work station (64GB ram and 2TB disk). The alt-tab issue is solved with the `AltTab` which improves it in all ways. I also remembered what I found lacking in finder. In Nautilus (the file browser I use on Linux), I can browse any ssh server as if a normal directory. Same goth with samba, sftp. And it also helps that it supports multiple different file systems out of the box.