Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014

On 2025-03-06, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
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On 2025-03-06 10:32 a.m., Sn!pe wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
 
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MacOS is indeed clunky. Certain things which should be easy to do end up
being more complicated simply because they are in MacOS. One example is
switching from mirrored to extended when using two or more screens.
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Nonsense.  Control of screen mirroring and extending
is available with one click in the menu bar.
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One click to get into the bar, another to open up the screen controls
and a third to choose which setting you want. How is that better than a
keyboard combination as in Linux or Windows?
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I couldn't say, I haven't used 'Doze for 20 years or Linux for 15 except
rarely in a VM.  I suppose it comes down to the question:  do you prefer
the GUI and trackpad or the CLI and keyboard?  I think it's rather harsh
to describe macOS as clunky just because you prefer the keyboard. 
If I wanted to be rude, I could describe the CLI as old fashioned.

For me, the main "clunky" part of Mac OS is having to quit an application,
after you've already closed it. I hate that. Isn't that what minimize should
be for? (And doesn't that make minimize redundant?)

Also, in my limited use of Mac OS, I find the "file manager" (by whatever
name) to be "clunky." I chalk that up (partly) to my ignorance of the Mac
OS, but I find Linux (the several desktops variants that I've tried) and
Windows file managers to be much more intuitive.

As for the CLI, it's hardly old fashioned. It's usually just much more
efficient for many purposes. But the Mac also has the CLI, although the
default setting isn't color (like it is in Linux), so it's harder to
separate out directories and various types of files.

There's no accounting for taste, eh?

Nope. If you like the Mac OS and it works for you, that's what you should
use. Definitely not my first choice though.

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