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by jwells89 3y ago
I wish there were a DE for Linux that replicated the Mac desktop paradigm. None currently do, even GNOME and Pantheon which people like to point to as the “Mac-like” DEs only aesthetically kinda resemble macOS… their windowing models are cl
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by jwells89 3y ago
Double-clicking the titlebar should yield a more traditional maximize behavior, except in non-native apps which don’t replicate full native titlebar functionality. For those hovering over the green button with option pressed will show an op
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by jwells89 3y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a program that opens a new window when other windows are already open on some other desktop/monitor. The behavior I always see is switching to the desktop with the window, with multiple dock icon cli
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by jwells89 3y ago
Alfred is ridiculously lightweight and well-optimized, too, which is something a lot of newer software struggles with.
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by jwells89 3y ago
All of the Chrome-clones (Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Arc, etc) have identical dev tooling and extension support because they’re all just Chrome with mostly-surface-level tweaks applied.
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by jwells89 3y ago
The window vs. app distinction is pretty easy to smooth over, just sub out ⌘Q for ⌘W so you’re quitting instead of closing windows. The extra layer of grouping can actually be pretty nice at times, since it allows the user to for example cl
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by jwells89 3y ago
Don’t have a full guide, but winget is your friend for quickly setting up Windows and has come installed by default for a while now. Lets you install most popular software through the command line, which is much nicer than wandering around
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by jwells89 3y ago
This is what I tend towards too. It helps that my setup isn’t too deeply customized (for example I think the only UserDefaults change I make is to add a Quit menu item to the Finder’s app menu), so even defaults are reasonably usable.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I don’t dislike the web. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s got serious problems that tend to get swept under the rug and ignored as the industry churns away though, and those problems aren’t going to be fixed if nobody is talking about them
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by jwells89 3y ago
Have the kinks with the U3224KB been worked out? I had one for a while but ended up returning it and replacing it with a Studio Display due to a bunch of papercuts (blog post with details in my profile, if interested) mostly concerning its
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by jwells89 3y ago
API deprecation on macOS is somewhat overblown. It’s not difficult to get a decades old FOSS Mac app compiling again, and it’s even possible to get projects targeting OS X precursors building with a little effort. Binary compatibility is wh
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s illuminating to try to use a late-era Core 2 Duo (or even Core 2 Quad) machine for all web browsing for a day. Given a cheap SSD upgrade, these systems can handle Windows 10 or a modern Linux distro perfectly well, but the web can brin
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by jwells89 3y ago
Standardization is an entirely different argument. The point is that it’s unlikely that Apple wants to do away with the Terminal because it treats the Mac differently than it does its other devices.
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> I think if they could get away with it, they'd stop shipping Terminal.app as soon as they were able. I don’t think believe that’s true. Apple has always treated the Mac differently than its other devices, even back in the iPod day
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by jwells89 3y ago
> Unfortunately, people still choose to own monitors that have weird resolutions that do not approximate 96dpi after integer scaling. It’s not always a choice unfortunately. I buy displays that are capable of a clean 1x or 2x when I can,
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> If you go there frequently… you already know the menu? For most places, but there are a handful that have huge menus. Its name escapes me but for instance when I lived in SF there was a sandwich place I frequented that was one such sho
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by jwells89 3y ago
Currently Safari on Mac copies over login cookies and data directly relevant to the site and nothing else when installing an app as a PWA. This strikes me as the way to go, there’s no good reason for anything else to be copied and it reduce
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by jwells89 3y ago
Ideally there should be both browser-level and OS-level controls. Reduces the chances of things slipping through the cracks and it limits the blast radius in case a browser vendor can’t get a hole patched up quickly for some reason.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I leave at least a few pixels around the edges of windows to let my desktop picture show through, partially because that’s some of the little remaining customization but also because having my screens filled to the brim with windows negativ
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by jwells89 3y ago
Another vote for wallhaven, have found several high quality 5k and 6k+ desktop pictures there, as well as some for odd aspect ratios (e.g. 5k portrait). Its predecessor Wallbase was also great. One thing I appreciate is that its users do a
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There was one of these apps for early versions of OS X too. I’ve searched for it several times, but as far as the web is concerned it never existed. Would really like to find it because its default desktop picture was pleasant (during the d
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s more that the number of sites I’d add to my home screen has a hard upper bound that’s not high, management is easy, and if I want one without it being on the home screen I can send it to the app library instead, where it’ll surface wit
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You can on iOS too, but it opens a browser tab which is undesirable. Sites have to be marked as PWAs to open in their own process.
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For quick access without cluttering browser tabs and bookmarks.
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I believe PWAs have a place in highly “templatable” things like restaurant pages and online shops. Those I can see adding to my home screen. Anything more complex than those is questionable.
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If I see a “best viewed in” badge I’m very likely to go find an alternative, regardless of the platform or browser I’m using. Those badges would best remain a vestige of the IE-Netscape era.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Command-` is the shortcut you want for cycling through windows within an app, otherwise Exposé/Mission Control is the layer that can be configured to think in “windows” instead of in “applications”.
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“Better” still has some asterisks, for example though KDE is by far the best of the major DEs in terms of fractional scaling support under Wayland, it still has some oddities like Aurora window decoration themes not drawing properly with fr
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by jwells89 3y ago
visionOS adapts UIKit/SwiftUI to a much greater degree than Quests do Android Framework/Jetpack Compose. visionOS windows and controls have depth, different shapes and sizes, and different interactions than their iOS counterparts
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I think what’s actually happening here is that spaces have separate desktop picture settings between displays. I noticed this a few days ago when moving a space from one monitor to the other and seeing its desktop picture change. Moving the

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