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i3 and its Wayland port sway are the best things that have happened to UX.

What I hate about Gnome is that it's almost perfect but its paradigm includes huge huge window borders.

Oh well, on the plus side there's an actually perfect desktop out there already: i3. And sway potentially. I do miss Gnome's full-assedness (attention to detail and their strong opinions/focus) sometimes.

Spotify snatching exclusive podcasts made me quit Spotify for music as well. That's a grab that I do not tolerate.

This further cements the fact that IPO is a near certain death sentence for a product.

Why do you use Laravel instead of just plain php files?

Currently probably because M1 is absurdly better than the competition. They will certainly draw users away from Linux unless either this porting effort gets done, or unless other ARM options that support Linux better become available.

Rectangle is pretty great, thanks for that pointer. I've been trying all kinds of tiling wms on MacOS, but they just don't quite work in this world -- since they're unable to do everything that's needed. But Rectangle allows me to make the decisions, which works a bit better here.

What's still missing with this setup is a shortcut for easily moving a window to another desktop. Any clues how to achieve that?

And finally there's the irritating MacOS UX "feature", that selecting an application with cmd-tab doesn't switch to the desktop where it is, or doesn't unminimize it if it's minimized.

I don't think anyone should downvote expressing an opinion, at least when it's done without toxicity like you did. Ok, that "delusion" remark was a bit toxic. But anyway.

Here's my opinion: i3 is vastly superior to anything macos is offering in the desktop space in terms of usability. Sure, wrestling with minutae like proper font rendering and DPI settings is a huge pain, but a) some distros do those things for you and b) if you're not a serial distro hopper / manic reinstaller, those things don't have to be done too often.

I genuinely think it's an UX upgrade. And I've been using macs almost exclusively for 5 years now.

The bad things of Linux are still bad: subsystems get replaced all the time (often with just minimal technical justification), and the replacements are usually (if you compare them to Macs) alpha quality for a long time. And the integration is lacking. Notable contemporary examples: oss/alsa/pulseaudio/jack/pipewire and x11/wayland. This is something I truly don't miss when using macs. Almost everything else I do miss.

This might have been true in the past when corporations were more limited. However, as corporations grow, their power is becoming ad hoc equivalent to those of the state.

You will have even less consent to being governed when you're governed by corporation heads, who will be more and more like lords and barons from the middle ages.

Oh we respond. Mainly negatively.

Was Afghanistan America's during these 20 years?

American taxpayers must be thrilled about this little trip.

Did you run Linux or Windows on it?

> Sold it and got an M1. For compile, programming etc. tasks its 2-3x faster.

You mean the M1 is? That seems slightly incredible. 20-50% improvement I would've accepted easily, but 200-300% seems a bit on the high side.

Wait, what is arrogant? Having a government that orders people directly? Or not understanding such a government?

What the Chinese do is different in that when the government orders the people to do something, they actually do it.

Depending on what you think about the virtues of government, that's something between a pretty good thing or the worst horror you can imagine.

This is of course a joke, come on you guys. Nobody seriously compares jailing people to blocking them on social media.

Well, yes, sort of. Threatening to murder a public figure (or worse, murdering) is terrorism in the way that it discourages others to become public figures. Which in turn gnaws on a certain foundation of democracy, which is that everyone should be able to hold public office without fear of violence.

If we don't protect that foundation, only the people whose supporters are doing the threatening will eventually hold public office.