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How many windows do you have open?

macOS has tons of power user features built in. Automator, Service Menu, Shortcuts, Folder Actions, intelligent folders, and much more! Adding commands to the contextmenu, that then work across apps is super cool and easy to do for example.

In any app, I can select text and then use the service menu or context menu to run my own text transformation scripts (title case, replace, etc.). Only using built-in tools!

Also you can add or change keyboard shortcuts for every app, even if it doesn’t have them for some menu items. Do you want to not accidentally quit Firefox with cmd + q ? Change it to cmd + alt + q in System Settings.

You can change all keyboard shortcuts in macOS.

I‘m a long time Mac user and have hated the full screen function since they introduced it. The + button used to zoom/maximize the window according to the size of its content, and it still remained resizable. You can alt + click the + to get the old behavior. There’s also a setting, where you get the old behavior by double clicking the window title bar.

The whole window management has become messy. It was pretty simple and powerful, but then they added more and more features every year, making it harder to use and less useful.

The full screen mode is just bad.

A Mac application can keep running without having an open window. That’s also why the menu bar is not attached to the window.

Minimize button, minimizes the window into the dock.

You can also hide an application, or hide all others, which is a very useful feature.

Better for LibreOffice and other software to read and write.

XML isn’t meant to be written by hand.

Yes, it’s early days.

There are a couple of really cool projects going on at the moment, that use some kind of tiling.

DankLinux and Noctalia used with niri is worth trying for example.

Omarchy gets a lot of hate, however it’s actually really well done. Probably the best intro to a tiling window manager with keyboard focus. The included features are well thought out. Included documentation is excellent. It also looks great. Lots of attention to detail. It shows how to make a distro that’s very different from Windows and Mac OS. Instead of trying to ape the popular OS, it leans into the strengths of Linux.

Docx is bloated XML, but much better than the binary formats before.

Apple‘s AirPrint standard for wireless printing is pretty much sending a PDF over IPP.

Google search results have become so much worse. Tons of AI slop and other trash is in the top results for lots of searches.

Look at a terminal command and try to understand what it does. You can do this by checking out the commands it’s made of and learning about them.

Zulip integrates with Jitsi, Zoom, and Bigbluebutton for voice and video chat. Looks like a sensible solution.

Not bad is a good description. It’s not fun to use compared to other chat software.

Call them cretins all you want, Discord in a great piece of software and very powerful. The usability is better than most others.

Yes, enshittification of Discord has started a while ago, and it’s becoming worse.

There are differences with hardware support. For example my keyboard backlight isn’t supported in all distros equally. From what I know so far, I suspect this has to do with kernel version and desktop environment.

Getting hardware to work that needs proprietary firmware, for example Broadcom wifi and Bluetooth, can involve several steps like adding a new repository, installing packages, and running a program, or two clicks in the UI.

PDF files are not cheap and not everyone knows how to use them.

Affinity is on Linux now?

My house only has xwindows for that reason.