[BoardsOfCanada]

Does it really? For me, finder is below the level of what's acceptable, so I use a replacement. I also use magnet for arranging windows, but apart from that I find the experience far better than windows or linux. Maybe I'm missing out on some really great extensions, which ones would you recommend?

[mmaniac]

I use SensibleSideButtons and ScrollReverser continually. Those are features which I consider absolutely basic and their omission leaves me cynical.

Rectangle and Contexts are extensions I use to make Mac OS closer to Windows or Linux in comfort, but they're not what I'd consider essential.

An interesting thing happened while I was enumerating the tweaks I had installed. Some of their menu bar icons were hiding under my notch without my even realising! Completely lacking an overflow indication is embarrassingly sloppy, and I might have to grab something like Bartender now too.

[literallyroy]

I’ve found LinerMouse handles side buttons and scrolling well: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse

[hu3]

> Does it really

Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580566

[BoardsOfCanada]

My situation is similar to `dwighttk` in the comments you link to, I have stats (as in `brew home stats`) showing CPU/GPU/RAM/Network, then the standard macOs stuff + magnet + weekday and full date and time and nothing is ever hidden by the notch when using the built in display.

So - since people DO have a problem - there must be other things that a lot of users want to see but none of them are mentioned in the link.

[hu3]

Perhaps you don't need to organize icons like other users do.

But for us who do, it is clearly essential.

> "Ugh, this sucks. This app was nearly essential on MacBooks with a notch, since you could hide lesser used icons away to make everything fit." - LeoPanthera 13 hours ago

> "True, but it has been essential for a long time before the notch for those of us with a non-trivial amount of software. The menu bar is a popular spot and so many apps want to put an icon there." - Tagbert 13 hours ago

And that's just from a quick glance.

Most users don't even know it's possible to improve their UI with this third party tool. I bet if they knew it would be considered very important to the mas well.

Specially power users who fight with screen space.

[literallyroy]

What finder replacement do you use? I have ended up doing just about everything I can via the terminal as finder feels so unusable coming from windows.

[MrDrMcCoy]

As a Linux user, the only thing I really miss from MacOS is BetterTouchTool.