[thisislife2]

I was complaining about the same thing yesterday (to nobody) about the macOS System Preferences - it is irritating that when you are working on the Network Panel and want to fiddle with some other system option, you can't open two different panels in System Preferences at the same time. Isn't it the same with Linux distros too now a days who are imitating Windows and macOS UI?

[pvtmert]

you can open multiple of those via the 'open' command

    open -a 'system settings' -n

> https://ss64.com/mac/open.html

[thisislife2]

Thanks for the tip ( open -a 'system preferences' -n worked for me ). Though, it's still irritating when you have to switch to command line to do so ...

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

You’re inviting a billion replies about how on Linux you have the absolute freedom to install any of a number of inscrutably hard to use, abandoned, system configuration utilities, or edit some equally inscrutable file written in one greybeard’s esoteric pet project configuration DSL.

[cholantesh]

Or, you know, use standard tools available across distros like lspci, ip, df, and ps, among others.