#use macos

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[verynerdyelaine]

Window Managers are cool

So, I've been using Unix based Operating Systems (MacOS and Linux) for a while now but when I was just starting to use Linux there was a term that a lot of people were using and that was a "Tiling Window Manager".

What is a Tiling Window Manager?

Well, A Tiling window manager is a window manager that organizes windows into grids of tiles and not promote the overlapping of windows.

Why do you need it?

Tiling Window Managers are amazing at organizing windows and keeping in track with whatever tasks that are in-front of your face. Tiling Window Managers are also keyboard centric in which you can switch between windows with just your keyboard and as I am a Neovim user i use HJKL to breeze through the windows. Tiling Window Managers also have the feature of workspaces (desktops on MacOS) in which you can designate whatever stuff you have into different workspaces.

What Tiling Window Managers do I use?

On, Linux i use dwm and on MacOS i use yabai. dwm is an amazing Window Manager due to it being highly configurable, minimal and yet simple which fits my cozy zone. yabai is what i use for MacOS due to it being 1 of 2 Tiling Window Managers on MacOS (the other being Amethyst) but yabai is much more powerful and more configurable.

Final Thoughts

Tiling Window Managers are cool and you should give them a try :3

[nyaa]

[エース明]

[ntrlily]

really my favorite thing about using Linux is that compared to like, Windows or MacOS, I just enjoy my time on the computer more with Linux. There's a lot of dumb bullshit I don't have to worry about, everything runs faster, I can make my interface look like it crawled out of 1997, and I don't have to turn the thing off to update it. It feels a bit cheesy to say that but using Windows just feels adversarial (which was the case even before I swapped to exclusively using Linux) and that's a sentiment I see from tons of people who exclusively run it.

[mirqmarq428]

Switching to Linux hot take:

Recovering windows users shouldn't switch to a "windows-like" DE. Give them something totally alien like GNOME or Budgie. Likewise, we should recommend ex Mac users KDE or Cinnamon.

Reason: Linux is not the same as those OSes. Its imitations of their interfaces are incomplete, so it will feel like a knockoff.

A new GUI paradigm sets Linux apart in the mind and encourages learning. Then once the user is proficient in customizing their desktop, they can bring back the features they valued in those systems.

[dragongirldeity]

my current Fun Programming Project has been a 100% bespoke wallpaper thing for Wayland (linux) :)

the general thought is that i should be able to use big portrait images on a landscape monitor, because i use [niri](https://github.com/yaLTeR/niri) as my window manager - i've always liked android's parallax scroll, and i also think this is a nice effect to have on any kind of wallpaper solution, so that your monitor doesn't burn-in!

given that i only started being able to render stuff (not even images, just a debug spectrum) to my monitor like 2 days ago i think this is really good progress. and every remaining issue is an Eminently Solvable Engineering Problem!!

[zeroterabytes]

In all seriousness, it's quite sad that your PROPRIETARY OS REQUIRES ANOTHER PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE ! ! !

[definitely-zen-browser]

fuckin hate when people say the software thay're promoting is "available for PC and mobile" but they really mean "available for windows 10/11 x86, iOS, and android"

there's more than 3 fucking operating systems.

are devices running linux not PCs?

what about Macs?

How about KalibriOS? do you support that?

And HarmonyOS? that has roughly the same market share on mobile that linux does on desktop.

can it run on ARM or RISC-V?

if it does support linux, what package managers can you install it with?

and for fucks sake if it costs money at least say how much

if you mean windows 11 x86 then just fucking say windows 11 x86, it's not that hard.

[shinelikethunder]

back in the Superwholock days there was this post getting passed around my corner of tumblr about "teflon writing vs velcro writing," ostensibly as a nutshell summary of why fandom reacted so differently to Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies as Doctor Who showrunners: slick and polished and easier to admire (when done well) or coolly assess its flaws (when botched) than to get a grip on or pull apart & tinker with, vs. messy and prickly and grippy and tinkering-friendly and prone to getting its hooks in you whether or not you ever wanted that

and that's very funny to look back on with the distance of hindsight, because to this day--a full decade after peak Superwholock--RTD-era Who and Kripke-era SPN remain THE most insane, crazymaking, irreversible-brain-damage-inducing, "compelling in the way where they make me INCREDIBLY ANGRY and ITCHY TO FIX THEM because i am so stupid-invested that they still have me by the balls, even when my engagement is just picking apart the frustrations of how and why they SUCK" turbo-examples of velcro writing i have ever encountered in my LIFE

hell, they aren't even so much like velcro as they're like snagging the folds of a lace circle skirt on a whole branch of actual cockleburs and trying to wash the shrapnel out with fucking gorilla glue

.....and then there's BBC Sherlock. which was neither velcro writing nor teflon writing but an elaborate many-year con, targeted at the EXACT kinds of people who maintain a secret good Supernatural that lives in their heads, whose one neat trick was to bait its marks into collectively hallucinating a brilliant show so that Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss never had to put themselves to the trouble of writing one.

[sidewalk-scrawls]

Losing my mind at this reply on that CrowdStrike post:

WHAT ELSE WOULD THEY BE USING???

[sheryl-lee]

question for fellow gifmakers who use a macbook: what software are you using to screencap 1080p files now that the older version of mpv (that doesn't duplicate/skip frames) is no longer compatible with macos sonoma?

[queervegancryptid]

I am once again asking all of you to please consider using Linux.

It's different, but it's not that hard to figure out. And you can dual-boot! That means you can partition your drive and have the option of booting into Linux or another OS, such as Windows or macOS.

What's really nice is that a lot of Linux distros (different versions of Linux) have live versions. That means you can put it on a USB stick and try it before you install it on your computer.

Also, older machines sometimes do really well with Linux. There are some lightweight versions of Linux for old computers or computers that don't have a lot of resources available. When I was about 20, my brand new laptop was stolen right out of my living room. I cobbled together a computer made with spare parts that arguably should have been thrown out. Half of the setup was from my family's first ever computer, which shipped with Windows ME, which was installed using floppy disks. I shit you not.

It wouldn't have been able to handle Windows or macOS. But it could handle, for example, Lubuntu or Damn Small Linux. Not forever, about a few hours max, but still. It was all I had, and it got me through some really shitty times.

And there's no Copilot or OneDrive or Office. (There are alternatives available for those who want them; the point is, it isn't forced.) No insistence that you have an account somewhere with Microsoft or Apple or some other company just to use your computer. That you bought. That you should be able to mod to your liking without any issue. (I'm still mad at Nintendo.) If you own it, you should be able to do what you want with it, outside of harming someone else.

Oh, and Linux is also very punk rock. I know people say that as a joke, but I mean it literally. Linux as a philosophical concept is actually very in line with my values. There are people in probably(?) every kind of community online and off who suck, and the Linux community is no different. But while we're talking about people who suck, there's still a subreddit called /r/pcmasterrace. Like I said: there are people I would avoid in all sorts of communities and situations. It's no reason to deprive yourself of the joys of Linux and a potentially/mostly Windows-free and/or macOS-free life. You owe it to yourself not to dismiss it out of hand. There may be a better way! Much better, actually.

I just love Linux so much, you guys. Open source has saved me a million times. The only thing that's ever been there for me like open source? Libraries. The original open source.

[kraniumet]

least spirited extortion campaign

[roscoehamiltons]

think my windows laptop is officially on its last legs since it won't start up the sims 3 anymore womp womp 😔

[soonhoonsol]

hello does anyone know where / how to download photoshop for free?

[mars-ipan]

guys i have to edit videos on macOS in class today. pray for me