PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

  • Echo Dot
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    43 days ago

    I get having Linux and Windows, after all you need a backup solution for when you can’t use Linux. But why do you also have a Mac?

    Then I guess iOS makes sense if you have a Mac, but why also have Android?

    • Ulrich
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      3 days ago

      Linux = Freedom, customizability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        43 days ago

        Windows for interoperability.

        Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

        (My wife hates it when she hits websites that don’t work properly and starts swearing, then I ask “Are you using a real browser or just Safari?” - “FUCK YOU!” Somehow we’re still married. 😀)

        • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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          83 days ago

          Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

          I don’t have any problem job hunting on a Linux box. Why would that matter?

        • Lka1988
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          33 days ago

          Firefox with user agent switcher extension. Problem solved.

        • Echo Dot
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          23 days ago

          Are you using a real browser or just Safari?

          I used to do web development, Safari is honestly worse then IE6

          • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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            03 days ago

            It’s godawful, so many things don’t work in Safari and it’s because Apple can’t stand other people coming up with “standards”. :)

        • Darren
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          33 days ago

          Unless I misunderstand, you’ve been able to do that since around 2011.

          • zqps
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            2 days ago

            M4 Mac user here happy to shed some light onto this. It’s actually very intuitive:

            “Full screen” on Mac means the current App window becomes a new temporary virtual desktop, which is placed after your normal virtual desktops. It also turns off the status bar / app menu, although you don’t get that screen space back because of the camera notch, it’s just blacked out.

            Note that how many virtual desktops you have and which one is selected is specific to each display. So if you like multitasking, it really helps if you’re good at remembering all of them in the correct order including any fullscreen apps and the display they were on. And I hope you don’t mind performing the same swiping gesture multiple times to get back to your fullscreen app. Also you can’t move it between displays.

            You might just want to maximize your app window instead. Though you may need third-party software to do that.

            • Darren
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              22 days ago

              I’ve used apps in fullscreen for as long as it’s been possible, and I’ve honestly never found it confusing at all.

              You can move them across displays. Just open Mission Control then drag it from one screen to another. Or drag it to a desktop if you want.

              As for maximising; just double click the bar at the top of the window. No extra software needed.

              Now that macOS supports window tiling there’s a number of ways to lay out app windows. Fuck Stage Manager though. I’ve never been able to work out the point of it.

              • zqps
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                12 days ago

                Dragging them on Mission Control hasn’t worked for my apps. I’ve had to exit fullscreen, move screens, then reengage fullscreen.

                The double-click to maximize often doesn’t work. Many windows either do nothing, or resize only to a specific size, or maximize only vertically. Totally not infuriating.

                Rectangle is the tool I use to make windows behave.

                • Darren
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                  12 days ago

                  Yeah, that’s odd. As long as an app is in fullscreen you should be able to drag it from screen to screen when Mission Control is active.

                  As for the double click; Finder will only maximise the height without changing its width, but all the other apps I tried filled the desktop.

          • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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            03 days ago

            I don’t even know whether I understand I just hear MacOS users griping about fullscreen, and a quick google gave quite recent results. Especially with fullscreen being incompatible with other windows on top (each fullscreen window necessary is on its own workspace) which would be highly annoying in Blender. You can configure blender to have file open dialogues, render results etc. in its main window, but certain stuff like preferences always open a second one.

            • Darren
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              12 days ago

              I don’t know why people would gripe. There’s a bunch of different ways to resize windows in macOS. You can fullscreen them into their own virtual desktop, and sure, unless you drag another app alongside then no, that’s not compatible with other windows at the same time. Personally, I use fullscreen for apps that I don’t need to interact, or that I want to have full focus on. iTunes/Music for example, is kept to the far right of the spaces on my right hand monitor. I know where it is and it’s easy to access without taking up space on the desktop.

              But you can also make them fill the regular desktop by double clicking the bar at the top of the window. Or you can drag windows to various sides of the screen to resize them, the same way you can with Linux and Windows.

              And yeah, there’s Stage Manager too, but honestly, I’ve never really seen the point. Not on a Mac anyway.