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by c54 1730 days ago
Agreed actually, I don't use the 'spaces' feature other than for fullscreen PDF reading.

For me, BetterTouchTool is a godsend though, i can use the trackpad to 'grab' and 'resize' windows without hunting for the little <-> thing that's for some reason 0.5 pixels wide :D. BTT implements all of Windows' snappy edges and corners and whatnot.

I use Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) as a cmd+space replacement and it's great and quick too

MacOS is strangely more customizable than a lot of things
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smoldesu 1730 days ago
> MacOS is strangely more customizable than a lot of things

Let's see... it lets you change accent colors, which puts it just ahead of my toaster but behind my car's infotainment dashboard in terms of customization. So you're not wrong, unless you're specifically talking about the context of operating systems.

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c54 1728 days ago
Er sorry, you misunderstand me-- I mean customizable by downloading new software, not by turning the itty bitty knobs they give you out of the box. You know, same as linux! (Unless you're one of the cool people who has written their own window manager, most of us just download that shit and tweak it to our liking)

Some apps I like

- Better Touch Tool https://folivora.ai/

- https://www.raycast.com/

- MTMR https://mtmr.app/ (admittedly hate the touchbar but hey at least i can tweak it)

- iTerm is def the best terminal app experience

- the builtin trackpad is by far the best of any OS (esp boosted by BTT), but for plugged in mice i use https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

- there are a large handful of automation oriented apps which way outperform windows and IMO beat linux in terms of usability but not in terms of customizability. Often though, the solution you can whip up in a couple hours is better than the one you (didn't) whip up in 2 weeks https://thesweetbits.com/best-mac-automation-apps/

- thanks to superior graphics APIs on mac you can get nice polish on lots of interesting apps (eg https://slidepad.app/). Often you just can't get that on linux because nobody has the time. The selection just doesn't exist.

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