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by thewebguyd 418 days ago
> What I dislike the most on modern UI, and maybe absolutely hate, are all those super slow animations.

This is what drives me crazy on macOS. Specifically, the animation for switching between virtual desktops. When I hit Ctrl+1/2/3/etc I want it to switch instantly, no animation - not slide into place. It's even unresponsive until the animation finishes.
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airstrike 418 days ago
I use the Aerospace tiling window manager for macOS just so I can move my apps to different spaces and opt+key move to them. usually vscode in opt+1, firefox in opt+2 and discord in opt+d
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nextos 418 days ago
I don't use Mac because I prefer Linux tiling WMs, but this is easy to fix?

Most animations can be disabled using the defaults system.

I think the desktop animation option is called workspaces-swoosh-animation-off or similar.

I also recall that Settings > Accessibility has a reduce motion option that disables lots of things.

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doix 418 days ago
I have to use a Mac for work and it drives me crazy. I disabled everything I could find, enabled reduced motion preferences or whatever it's called and still got some animations.

My "solution" is to use Aerospace [0], which reimplements window management. That's the only way I found to not have animations. Unfortunately i still feel some delay when switching windows compared to i3wm/sway in Linux.

[0] https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

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