[koprulusector]

I’ll keep my tiling window manager and keyboard driven workflow, along with the ability to sudo to root and modify my system as I please, rather than banging my head against the wall because Apple has literally locked me out of parts of my own file system, or have some obscure launcher/service management that’s poorly documented. Or the fact that servers all run Linux and apples non-posix, slightly different, proprietary tooling is just subtly different enough to make it a huge pain in the ass when you run a command to deploy something and it’s botched by a subtle difference like slightly different flags/behavior.

Sounds like Mac is great for blogging, happy to hear it; as long as I’m doing software development, deployments, etc, I’ll stick with Linux.

[Otek]

With yabai I have tiling window manager on MacOS and 100% keyboard driven development, like I would have on i3. It’s more difficult to setup than on Linux but I had too much drivers-related problems with Linux (Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi mostly) to run it daily. Also homebrew seems to be better than any package manager on Linux. Maybe pacman is good enough.

[andyfleming]

I’ve never understood the window tiling complaint. While MacOS doesn’t have tiling built in, it’s readily available for free. Are there features that aren’t available in those applications?

[sph]

macOS window management is incredibly worse than the other two operating system, and that's if you use Spectacle and other helper tools. Without them, it's even worse.

I loved my time with macOS but window management was definitely the worst thing about the OS for me.

[brailsafe]

Ya but... how could those differences be so impactful? I tile my windows occasionally, it's handy, but I can't imagine that being my single issue vote.

[sph]

I don't tile my windows, macOS' window management is a death by a thousand cuts. I haven't used it since Mojave so I forgot what exactly used to bother me, sorry.

It's certainly serviceable, Windows feels better to me, Linux is the best: Super+right click to resize windows, and Super+drag to move them around are killer features.

[brailsafe]

> Super+drag to move them around are killer features

Do you mean that they're locked in-place unless you hold down whatever super is? I use CMD+direction for a segment of the screen on whichever half or third I want, and other hotkeys for corners, and click and drag if I need. Lately I've just not been bothering much, as a lack of tiling hasn't been bothering me so much.

[sph]

No they're not locked, but I can drag them without having to actually drag the titlebar. Just hold super and click anywhere in the window to move it. Don't knock it till you've tried it.