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Until you want to tile 3 windows on the same workspace, which Apple couldn’t fathom someone doing. Meanwhile gnome looks astronomically better with a bit of the

Until you want to tile 3 windows on the same workspace, which Apple couldn’t fathom someone doing. Meanwhile gnome looks astronomically better with a bit of theming and has nicer animations and window control and resizing behaviour. Must be embarrassing to be even less intuitive than Linux.

herrkanin 3y ago
Why are you comparing default behavior of macOS with Linux after “a bit of theming”. You can easily install a tiling window manager on macOS if that’s your thing.
- alphanullmeric 3y ago
  I don’t mean a window manager, I mean just snapping 3 windows together is impossible on macOS. Theming doesn’t change that.
  - bs7280 3y ago
    Check out Yabai WM if you still have a macOS laptop
  - wpm 3y ago
    Rectangle. Free. Customizable to your hearts content.
- KingLancelot 3y ago
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- thekombustor 3y ago
  Installing a tiling WM on macOS (in this case, Yabai) requires disabling system integrity protection. I tried Yabai for a while without disabling SIP (since I can't on my work machine) and it just did not work well. Not the fault of Yabai I'm sure, but there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly.
  - kalleboo 3y ago
    Does Linux have System Integrity Protection?
  - heywoodlh 3y ago
    I use Yabai on my Macs without SIP enabled. Here’s a list of the features that absolutely require SIP to be disabled: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling. I find it works extremely well. > there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too. For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.
Krssst 3y ago
> nicer animations Pointless comment: I can't help but feel that the nicest animations are no animations. I think it's just that each time I see animations I try to imagine what Star Trek would look like if each tap on an LCARS panel took 300ms to do something. On Gnome if I disable animations and apply https://github.com/bdaase/remove-alt-tab-delay https://github.com/bdaase/remove-alt-tab-delay I find the experience to be very good.

herrkanin 3y ago

Why are you comparing default behavior of macOS with Linux after “a bit of theming”. You can easily install a tiling window manager on macOS if that’s your thing.

alphanullmeric 3y ago
I don’t mean a window manager, I mean just snapping 3 windows together is impossible on macOS. Theming doesn’t change that.
- bs7280 3y ago
  Check out Yabai WM if you still have a macOS laptop
- wpm 3y ago
  Rectangle. Free. Customizable to your hearts content.
KingLancelot 3y ago
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thekombustor 3y ago
Installing a tiling WM on macOS (in this case, Yabai) requires disabling system integrity protection. I tried Yabai for a while without disabling SIP (since I can't on my work machine) and it just did not work well. Not the fault of Yabai I'm sure, but there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly.
- kalleboo 3y ago
  Does Linux have System Integrity Protection?
- heywoodlh 3y ago
  I use Yabai on my Macs without SIP enabled. Here’s a list of the features that absolutely require SIP to be disabled: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling. I find it works extremely well. > there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too. For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.

Krssst 3y ago

> nicer animations Pointless comment: I can't help but feel that the nicest animations are no animations. I think it's just that each time I see animations I try to imagine what Star Trek would look like if each tap on an LCARS panel took 300ms to do something. On Gnome if I disable animations and apply https://github.com/bdaase/remove-alt-tab-delay https://github.com/bdaase/remove-alt-tab-delay I find the experience to be very good.