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Yeah window management and the desktop experience in general on Mac just feels like I'm dragging my hands through tar. For example, "open two file browsers, na

Yeah window management and the desktop experience in general on Mac just feels like I'm dragging my hands through tar. For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want). On Mac I get about 7 system ding sounds and Finder windows bugging off the side of my screen while simultaneously deciding the best way to show downloads in a list is alphabetically and with 256x256 tiled icons. It's just an indescribably bad and slow experience to do any kind of file management on Mac. Another example. Take a screenshot and quickly redact some info with a black box. Easy on windows that I can type it out exactly (win+s, drag box, win key "paint" enter control v box tool save boom). On Mac?? After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds.

dagi3d 8mo ago
you can edit the image with preview any time you want
sneak 8mo ago
> After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds. This is completely incorrect, and the solution is way more discoverable than needing to know obscure things like Win+E. Click the thumbnail that appears in the bottom right, then click the marker icon. > For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want). Similarly, if you know the platform-specific shortcuts, this is less than 10 seconds on macOS. Click finder in dock, hit Command-N twice for new windows, drag each window to one of the L/R edges of the screen to tile, click downloads in the sidebar on one, click the home icon/username in the sidebar on the other.
- noduerme 8mo ago
  The bottom right thumbnail thing really bugged me and confused me when it came out, because I always just want the screenshot on the desktop right away, as it used to be. I don't know why they couldn't have the delay/thumbnail AND put the file somewhere I could reach it immediately. But IIRC, there is some setting that disables the thumbnail behavior and lets the file be written instantly.
  - asdff 8mo ago
    For me I want it to hang around longer actually. I will take the screenshot I want, open up mail or messages or something to dump it there. Right as my mouse is hovered over it and a milisecond before I can click it, it jumps away. I've resorted to sometimes giving it a partial drag which resets the counter while I am still getting situated over to wherever the screenshot is going.
    - noduerme 8mo ago
      This would be okay if it hung around longer. I just need it to be somewhere I can drag it. I don't see any use in its disappearing. If it's on the desktop immediately, at least I can find it quickly.
  - sefrost 8mo ago
    I use a trackpad exclusively with MacOS. If I want it immediately on the desktop then I can just "swipe away" (to the right) the thumbnail and it skips the pause. Not perfect but I do value being able to edit it from there, or right click and save to clipboard. So it works for me.
    - 1e1a 8mo ago
      You can also just drag it to the right.
      - noduerme 8mo ago
        This is an extra step PIA. CMD-OPT-H hides all the windows and there's the desktop. My desktop is clean AF, so I know which icon it is. I open it in photoshop or preview, or I just drag it into the email I'm about to send.
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dagi3d 8mo ago

you can edit the image with preview any time you want

sneak 8mo ago

> After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds. This is completely incorrect, and the solution is way more discoverable than needing to know obscure things like Win+E. Click the thumbnail that appears in the bottom right, then click the marker icon. > For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want). Similarly, if you know the platform-specific shortcuts, this is less than 10 seconds on macOS. Click finder in dock, hit Command-N twice for new windows, drag each window to one of the L/R edges of the screen to tile, click downloads in the sidebar on one, click the home icon/username in the sidebar on the other.

noduerme 8mo ago
The bottom right thumbnail thing really bugged me and confused me when it came out, because I always just want the screenshot on the desktop right away, as it used to be. I don't know why they couldn't have the delay/thumbnail AND put the file somewhere I could reach it immediately. But IIRC, there is some setting that disables the thumbnail behavior and lets the file be written instantly.
- asdff 8mo ago
  For me I want it to hang around longer actually. I will take the screenshot I want, open up mail or messages or something to dump it there. Right as my mouse is hovered over it and a milisecond before I can click it, it jumps away. I've resorted to sometimes giving it a partial drag which resets the counter while I am still getting situated over to wherever the screenshot is going.
  - noduerme 8mo ago
    This would be okay if it hung around longer. I just need it to be somewhere I can drag it. I don't see any use in its disappearing. If it's on the desktop immediately, at least I can find it quickly.
- sefrost 8mo ago
  I use a trackpad exclusively with MacOS. If I want it immediately on the desktop then I can just "swipe away" (to the right) the thumbnail and it skips the pause. Not perfect but I do value being able to edit it from there, or right click and save to clipboard. So it works for me.
  - 1e1a 8mo ago
    You can also just drag it to the right.
    - noduerme 8mo ago
      This is an extra step PIA. CMD-OPT-H hides all the windows and there's the desktop. My desktop is clean AF, so I know which icon it is. I open it in photoshop or preview, or I just drag it into the email I'm about to send.

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