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Interesting, complete opposite for me, was on OSX for a few years, a dream compared to previous Windoze experience. But, I grew tired of Finder, of spinning be
by virtualwhys 13y ago
Interesting, complete opposite for me, was on OSX for a few years, a dream compared to previous Windoze experience.
But, I grew tired of Finder, of spinning beach balls, eye candy, manually resizing windows, and generally mouse clicking around what more and more seemed to me like a McMac than the world's greatest OS.
What kills it for me on Linux are the tiling WMs. Try Awesome or i3, absurdly good user experience (using the latter here), particularly in a multi-head setup. Have about 15 terminals open here on one monitor, snapped into a quadrant grid with each panel consisting of a few sub tabs. No mouse needed, no manual resizing nonsense, no cluster fuck of randomly layered windows to sort through.
Throw in an expose-style docker for Skype, Rhythmbox, Gnote, etc. floatable apps and you're golden.
Love me some Linux, only point of OSX is to fire up a VM and see how my web apps look on the iThings in Xcode hardware simulator ;-)
- cpleppert 13y agoThere are a lot of addon applications that make window management much more palatable in os x. Even if you don't use all the whizbang consumer features in os x there is still a lot there as a result of the continual iteration and a complete focus on the desktop user. I don't think Linux and Windows have had anything like that kind of focus at all. The applications for os x also seem to be much higher quality than those for linux and windows. I honestly couldn't go back to windows or linux at this point even if I wanted to go back to a tiling window manager.