also i should say that using a mac has been hard for me, after using linux for 20 years there are a lot of things from Linux that I really miss (like package management, strace & friends, native container support).

I really understood how my linux system worked and I miss that.

it makes a lot of other things harder and I still haven’t found solutions i’m happy with for many of them. The tradeoff is worth it for now though

(again, not looking for advice.)

@b0rk I commiserate. I've had to install a couple of extensions to get window management working in a way that doesn't actively feel like I'm developing with a hand behind my back.

... credit where it's due: the accessibility layer Apple added at some point does make this feasible. I remember a decade back where I had the same problem, and the windowing layer was so locked down that your only option to workaround those issues was AppleScript-based approaches that had atrocious performance.

(... on the flip-side of the coin, my Linux laptop seems actively hostile to being tamed regarding how it sleeps in the presence of a power connection. I have made a couple runs up the hill of getting it configured properly and have not yet succeeded.)