Post AA7QALr9fOs6BiIqWW by kev@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AA70B3AS2Tsfhu08Mi by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T10:08:32Z
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I've been using my new M1 MacBook Air for a few days now. Having NEVER used MacOS before, here are my first impressions.https://kevq.uk/a-windows-users-first-impressions-of-macos/
(DIR) Post #AA70v4bj19trUfhhTM by totoroot@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T10:16:51Z
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@kev Cmd + Backspace should work for deleting files on external drives too, I think š¤
(DIR) Post #AA71m4erYmtSzyRbZg by totoroot@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T10:26:28Z
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@kev Also I still don't get why one would go with MacOS full-time, just because of it looking more polished than your standard Linux desktop...Having used a MacBook Pro for the last 10 months now at work, I still not at all feel like being free to customise it to my liking, due to the Apple devs having decided what's best for me.Window management, security policies etc. still actively keep me from using my device efficiently on a daily basis.Turns out I value freedom and usability over design
(DIR) Post #AA72A0CTmlxM7gZtMe by mauriziocarnago@mastodon.uno
2021-08-08T10:30:48Z
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@kev Great article. When I was using macOS I also found very frustrating not being able to paste a file or folder path into the Finder. If there is a way I have never found it in 15 years. I could only see or copy a path. On the perfect out-of-the-box operation and functionality of the UI I completely agree.
(DIR) Post #AA72IZEHQruL52VKOO by ricard_dev@mastodon.technology
2021-08-08T10:32:19Z
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@kev Interesting read!Have you tried cmd+backspace to move a file to the bin? š
(DIR) Post #AA72QVgeUEwMPVYvvE by totoroot@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T10:33:46Z
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@kev As someone who also hadn't been on MacOS before my current employment, I am curious to see what you will think of working on the command line on MacOS since I didn't expect things like `sed` or `date` to work differently than I was used to.Here is a link that helped me get my shell scripts working again:https://ryanparman.com/posts/2019/using-gnu-command-line-tools-in-macos-instead-of-freebsd-tools/
(DIR) Post #AA73gSmn8kXG06bZyq by talon@dragonscave.space
2021-08-08T10:47:59Z
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@kev in finder, you can hit cmd+backspace on a file to move it to bin, and cmd+opt+shift+backspace to empty the trash. you can also hit cmd+opt+backspace on a file to immediately delete it, bypassing the trash. Gonna keep reading the article, but saw those two and thought you might be interested. Hope you didn't discover them further in the article... :ms_cat_joy:
(DIR) Post #AA745sO95VFie3C9Mu by nathan@wpbuilds.social
2021-08-08T10:52:18Z
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@kev get this... https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
(DIR) Post #AA74Aq9EqSKv90aatU by nathan@wpbuilds.social
2021-08-08T10:53:22Z
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@kev and this... https://qspace.awehunt.com/en-us/index.html
(DIR) Post #AA74NzTzRyC7rNZAtE by talon@dragonscave.space
2021-08-08T10:55:52Z
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@kev If you don't mind a little bit of lua scripting, there is hammerspoon which is something you should definitely get. There are a few window manager-like scripts that people have made that may or may not help you with that. I was very surprised how powerful it is.For example, I'm used to my screen reader playing beep sounds based on the indentation level of the current line under the cursor. The Mac screen reader, VoiceOver, doesn't do this at all. But thanks to Hammerspoon this is now possible.As for moving the dock to the top of the screen, this should probably still work. Open a terminal and type:defaults write com.apple.Dock orientation topIt might not, but it's worth a try. Just kill the dock process, or log out and back in, and it should move it if this wasn't broken recently.
(DIR) Post #AA74VbMB2AOnLpXbF2 by nathan@wpbuilds.social
2021-08-08T10:57:08Z
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@kev for setting all open applications, slide 3 fingers up on the trackpad.
(DIR) Post #AA74a5iS6JOqfQ6JYe by nathan@wpbuilds.social
2021-08-08T10:57:35Z
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@kev CMD + Q kills the app currently open.
(DIR) Post #AA75931W6TF8S4gdd2 by wdavery@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T11:04:09Z
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@kev Alt-clicking on maximize switches the button to a standard maximize! (At least it did in older OS versions, worth a try though)
(DIR) Post #AA76ctGd2cbeppY6i0 by meena@cathode.church
2021-08-08T11:20:57Z
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@talon @kev wowthanks for those tips!do you have any idea how i can get a standard Unix compose key?
(DIR) Post #AA77U8vBZPRcjWubia by meduz@m.nintendojo.fr
2021-08-08T11:30:02Z
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@kev āIām flipping from one keyboard layout to the otherāThis will grant you superpowers as time flies. Your brain will thank you. :pFor windows maximization / positioning: Moom (5$) or Rectangle (open source, free: https://rectangleapp.com).
(DIR) Post #AA77sEL15CDmTzTolE by talon@dragonscave.space
2021-08-08T11:34:57Z
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@meena @kev I believe for that, you would need an app like Karabiner. You can enter a lot of accented characters in MacOS though by pressing them with opt. For example, for umlauts, I believe it's opt+u, then a, o or u.
(DIR) Post #AA7Aj3G7ClK7NUVCfQ by meena@cathode.church
2021-08-08T12:06:52Z
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@talon @kev I've looked at karabiner, but there's no way to just import standard Unix compose keysyou have to define them all by yourselfactually maybe I'll just have to automate the conversion!and yeah, you can enter accented characters by long-pressing the keythe problem is that this doesn't work everywhere and where it does work, it takes about seven times as long as using a compose key would
(DIR) Post #AA7An1LyEQAyct8Lwm by talon@dragonscave.space
2021-08-08T12:07:37Z
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@meena @kev yeah, I don't bother with holding the key down. I just use the option key thing. It works much faster.
(DIR) Post #AA7EbjayJaOkBL1Yrw by zigpress@mastodon.technology
2021-08-08T12:50:12Z
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@kev Came here to share Cmd+Backspace and Cmd-Q but looks like the comments have got it covered many times over!
(DIR) Post #AA7Eg997GAvEaI6BUW by dustin@mastodon.dustinwilson.com
2021-08-08T12:50:53Z
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@kev cmd + backspace to delete a file, cmd + opt + backspace to permanently delete a file. Works everywhere, even USB drives.There used to be cut for files in the Finder, but it's been gone for a bit. However, similar functionality exists. You can do cmd + c to copy the file then cmd + opt + v in another folder to move it.
(DIR) Post #AA7FZ2TJmA5JoOirw0 by damko@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T13:00:57Z
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@kev I'm genuinely curious to know why you didn't choose Linux. Would you share?
(DIR) Post #AA7L36mSot8xdLpryC by omniscient@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T14:01:56Z
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@kev can't you use command + backspace to send files to the bin? I don't think you need to create a new keybinding but it's been awhile since I've used one
(DIR) Post #AA7LRf0bDEnQjw9eJE by mike@libertynode.net
2021-08-08T14:06:47Z
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@kev Iām very interested to read this when I have a chance. Thank you for sharing it!
(DIR) Post #AA7O2l97YYJ8OixUH2 by pimoore@writing.exchange
2021-08-08T14:36:00Z
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@kev Great post, Kev! If you go into the Finder preferences (Cmd + , is the keyboard shortcut for preferences in any app) thereās an option to delete items in the trash after 30 days. This has come in handy a few times at work when I had to find a file I thought I was done with and had deleted.
(DIR) Post #AA7OFZ7Ta8lyrYINwe by Coneng@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T14:38:19Z
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@kev After years of using macOS I can say that frustrations will increase after the heat of polish goes away.
(DIR) Post #AA7OMjX1Gj1RBLf3Oy by jx0@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T14:39:01Z
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@kev good read, thank you for sharing :+1:I've been using an m1 mb air for a few months (my last macbook was a powerbook g4 so it's been a while) and have experienced the same frustrations. I've been use yabai and skhd for window tiling and hotkey management. It's the closest I've come to making macOS "mine" ... which o/c it isn't but that's a whole other post-coffee convohttps://github.com/koekeishiya/yabaihttps://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
(DIR) Post #AA7QALr9fOs6BiIqWW by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T14:59:48Z
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@totoroot itās not about valuing design over freedom. Your perspective is one side of the coin. The other is those people, like me, who want same default and not have to mess around with the OS at all, which is what Mac provides.
(DIR) Post #AA7QFPUfZRSUuuCK4O by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T15:00:39Z
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@ricard_dev yeah, doesnāt work for me.
(DIR) Post #AA7QwVUN9ksPxkboZc by VincentTunru@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T15:08:22Z
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@kev Oh geez, I remember complaining about not being able to cut in the Finder when I was first exposed to MacOS, and people telling me that cut just wasn't something you were supposed to do.Moving is perfectly sensible, and I hadn't expected to only learn about that now in an article like this. Thanks for sharing :)
(DIR) Post #AA7Ued4qbWFs6MOtgO by LuD_up@mastodon.social
2021-08-08T15:50:03Z
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@kev the only thing I was missing when I moved from Linux to macOS was package manager, I highly recommend you to install Homebrew for that : https://brew.sh š
(DIR) Post #AA7XdBsmWkplKdlL3w by thewk@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T16:23:22Z
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@kev As I mentioned before, I also made the switch, but am already back on fedora (defective part on my pc is now replaced),Not sure about you, but what kept me from settling on osx was that there is no remote client able to handle the different keyboard layouts (I use remote a lot) @ sigenes where nit transferred correctly, neither { [ also crtl + arrow which I often led to switching of desktops instead of hopping one word in the rdp session....
(DIR) Post #AA7a35IdpCG0LwKi3s by ndanes@smallcamp.art
2021-08-08T15:07:48Z
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@chris @kev @celia I mostly agree, but one thing that still frustrates me about MacOS to this day is the lack of DPI scaling support for non-HIDPI displays. It is afterthought to macOS devs and most people just tell you to buy a 4K panel to fix it, which is ridiculous. I have a 24" 1440p panel I picked up for dirt cheap refurbished on eBay, and I don't see any reason to upgrade it when on Linux and Windows, text renders great. Workarounds exist for intel-based macs[1], but M1's the same solutions don't work anymore[2].[1] https://github.com/xzhih/one-key-hidpi[2] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m1-owners-which-external-display-do-you-use-scaling-options-required.2294747/
(DIR) Post #AA7a36IK7rb5RFByCm by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T16:50:27Z
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@ndanes I connect my MacBook to 2x 1080p screens via a dock and havenāt had any issues with resolution scaling.@chris @celia
(DIR) Post #AA7aJqcPf6Qbk8Zfd2 by ndanes@smallcamp.art
2021-08-08T16:53:31Z
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@kev Are you using DisplayLink to get more than one display? I know by default the new M1 macbooks only support 1 external monitor unless you use that. The scaling issues only becomes a problem once you get past ~110 PPI. Anything below that doesn't require any scaling.For example, my monitor is about ~123 PPI and at normal scaling things are very tiny. There's no option to run it at 125 or 150% like in Windows. In comparison, a 24" 1080p would be ~92 ppi, which is fine at normal scaling. I believe people recommend either 110 (for non-retina) or 220 PPI (for retina) on MacOS. @chris @celia
(DIR) Post #AA7bC7A4N8BEggC384 by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T17:03:20Z
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@ndanes yeah, my dock is DisplayLink.@chris @celia
(DIR) Post #AA7qBMA6c5qUEYJ5NI by Crocmagnon@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T19:51:17Z
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@kev On māy mac, cmd+backspace sends a file to the bin and cmd+shift+backspace (IIRC) empties the bin. Maybe that helps šIf the selected file is on a drive, cmd+backspace directly deletes the file, no bin.
(DIR) Post #AA7qE6kqM2F9JinpEu by Crocmagnon@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T19:51:30Z
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@kev On my mac, cmd+backspace sends a file to the bin and cmd+shift+backspace (IIRC) empties the bin. Maybe that helps šIf the selected file is on a drive, cmd+backspace directly deletes the file, no bin.
(DIR) Post #AA7rk0Gg6fRcQ7SwW8 by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T20:07:52Z
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@Crocmagnon thanks, Iāll try that
(DIR) Post #AA7yQphBtDQpo8fm2C by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T21:23:26Z
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@dustin this is massively helpful. Thank you!
(DIR) Post #AA7yZw9NGF5wQsCFGa by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-08-08T21:25:24Z
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@wdavery Iāll try that, thanks!
(DIR) Post #AA8fg5eZ8b2hfjxzYu by Crocmagnon@fosstodon.org
2021-08-09T05:28:18Z
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@kev let me know how it goes š I have a French AZERTY keyboard so maybe the shortcuts are different on QWERTY though.
(DIR) Post #AAB3hy0fJVCTlGeQtc by vordenken@fosstodon.org
2021-08-10T09:06:50Z
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@kev Really cool article as always kev. I use a macbook air m1 myself & the one big thing that annoys me as well is the difference in keyboard shortcuts in windows/mac. Besides that I love this machine & would not want to switch to any other notebook. The fact that itās so insanely fast (my old macbook pro 13 inch from 2018 got crushed in performance comparison), lightweight, has no freakin fan & has insane battery life is just awesome - for me the best notebook atm.
(DIR) Post #AABT6tfd57uyOfnPlo by Twelve@fosstodon.org
2021-08-10T13:51:36Z
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@kevWhen o was young i used an ac a lot for school work. And now i have a fewacs in my possession. I pretty much deleted the os of all of them as i can not stand it. I find it kinda odd as i used it quite a bit as a cjild, but i just reaĆøly dislike it bow and find it really heavy to use. So i don't see myself making the switch at any time.
(DIR) Post #AABiphLpELHKX5Lznc by robertoz@fosstodon.org
2021-08-10T16:47:10Z
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@kev Try Command-Delete for sending to trash/bin, and Command-Option-Delete for deleting permanently without passing through the bin.Also, if you are unable to delete files on USB, maybe your USB is NTFS formatted? (MacOS doesn't like NTFS)
(DIR) Post #AASXkKcgDIVWzfLBrs by richards@fosstodon.org
2021-08-18T19:33:37Z
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@kev another fun keyboard shortcut that may be of use for keyboard management would be CMD + ~That will cycle through the open windows of the foreground application.