MacOS is the "it just works" operating system. As such, I think the moment that you need to declare custom workarounds like this, it kind of loses its legitimacy, and you should already be in Linux land.

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latexr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I abhor the current state of macOS and Tim Cook’s leadership, but your take is nonsensical.

For one, “it just works” hasn’t been used in over a decade, same as Google’s “don’t be evil”, which does tell you something about their current philosophies.

But more importantly, “it just works” was obviously never about it “it reads your mind and does every software feature however you personally like”, it was about the integration of hardware and software and not having to fiddle with drivers and settings to get hardware basics working.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/7hd450/it_just_works/

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huijzer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Compared to my old NixOS with tiling window manager, I’d say MacOS panes just doesn’t work. I have Rectangle, but it’s no comparison to the full tiling experience. I switched for Apple Silicon nothing more

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jonhohle 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But, believe it or not, is very customizable (and previously very scriptable). I have Shift+Command+M (maximize) bound to resize to fit the content (different from full screen in macOS). Anything that’s in a menu can be bound to a keyboard shortcut without any additional utilities.

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		I have multiple virtual desktops. Can I move a window to the next desktop from the keyboard without 3rd party software yet?

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monegator 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, the mac user faces incredible disillusion when he discovers that "just works" was just another marketing gimmick (to the likes of it doesn't get viruses!)

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create-username 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I found myself closing Linux windows sometimes only with alt+F4; sometimes only with ctrl+Q; sometimes with both; sometimes with none

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tclancy 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

apt-get install logicalleap

Sudo apt-get install logicalleapd

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hombre_fatal 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Windows is also the "it just works" operating system, and it has hundreds of useful things you can only do through registry hacks.

It's not a very useful test.

I look at the good things about macOS over desktop linux like how cmd-c/v works across all apps, and it would be amazing if it were just a cli command to bridge the gap.

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matharmin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In my experience, Windows is very far from a "it just works" OS.

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		It's the ambition as a home user OS though, like macOS. And in the discussion of "it just works" operating systems, who else are we to go by than the vendor ambitions? Personal opinions? In that case, neither is because both struggle to always work in all scenarios since their respective inceptions.

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friendzis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AFAIK Windows has never been known or marketed as "it just works". It goes long way to maintain backwards compatibility, but lets not kid ourselves that it has any semblance to what Apple's "it just works" is supposed to mean.

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shiroiuma 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In what universe has Windows ever been a "it just works" OS? Not this one.