cantankerous_cashewMacBook Neo review: Apple puts every $600 Windows PC to shame
If only it would run Linux
Not really any point. Mac OS takes all of the best parts of a Unix OS and wraps them in the only GUI interface that truly doesn’t suck.
☂️-I have lots of problems with the GUI from a productivity standpoint. Its situational for many people. The problem with MacOS is, like windows, you have very few options to change it.
I would like to see a dock that does not dynamically asjust the position of icons. Fix the positions for muscle memory.
The app switching logic should be switching between windows not apps.
It needs proper tiling and snapping support.
The common UI elements forced on apps take up too much screen space.
Its not that any other OS is inheritly better, its that MacOS is more locked down in terms of the ability to adjust or improve it.
Honestly compared to windows it’s a lot more customisable. There’s a vibrant community of developers that make really great apps for macOS, and nowadays a lot of it is foss too. I just recently installed DockDoor, which enables your desired windows not app switching and A LOT more. There’s another app that adds basically hyprland style window management, and there are other alternatives as well, like rectangle, or Loop, which add more normal window snapping.
Also I don’t know if it’s a setting I changed but I don’t have dynamically adjusting icon positions. It behaves the same way as windows.
Overall imo there’s a ton more easy customisation compared to windows, and a lot of it adds big new features in my experience. Of course it doesn’t compare to Linux, but it’s a lot better than windows.
Thanks for the tips. Will look into it.
NobodyMacOS is UNIX, but is not the best implementation of UNIX.
The UNIX tools it ships are extremely old. For example, it comes with GNU Screen, which I was using but was having same strange issues with. It turned out it uses a version from 2006… so I had to brew install a modern version.
And I’m personally not the biggest fan of MacOS. It’s certainly better than Windows thanks to Apple mostly treating the user with basic respect (no ads), but the desktop/window manager is just super quirky. No other desktop, whether it be Windows or any desktop on Linux behaves quite like it. They tend to only adopt the nicer features while keeping a UX that feels closer to Windows.
I’ve got two old Intel Macs running Linux no problem.
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