Bettertouchtool forum6/11/2023 ![]() I just find it strange that, from a company that somehow positioned itself as UX leaders. If all you've ever used is a Mac then I'm sure you've figured out how to be hyper-productive on that DE. ![]() I lot of this is just familiarity and getting really used to a particular DE over decades of use and taking little things for granted. I want to be able to customize all of this and not feel like I'm locked in to "the Apple way" of doing things. something Linux and Windows both do out of the box but it just doesn't work on Mac OS X. I want to be able to hold ctrl plus use the mouse wheel to zoom in / out of web pages on chrome. I want to be able to select text to copy to clipboard and use my middle mouse button to paste and I want that to work for all programs. I want a terminal that doesn't suck (and yes I use iterm2, it still sucks because I can't quickly jump to the end / beginning of a line to edit a command). I want to be able to customize my fonts because I have a hard time reading text on my QHD external monitor. Right-click plus reading window titles takes longer to find the window I need. I'd love to get preview thumbnails of windows when hovering over icons in the doc so that I can select the window I want. I want to be able to click the dock icon for an app I'm using and have the most recently used window of that app come to the foreground instead of however it makes that decision. I want to be able to ALT+right-click anywhere on a window to be able to move it around, alt+left-click anywhere on a window to resize it. My biggest gripe with Mac OS X is the window manager. (IME, MacOS users use Time Machine backups rather than a fresh-install bash script.)įrom someone used to the comforts of Linux, MacOS takes a huge amount of effort and expenditure to only get 20% of the way there.Ĭan it resolve me not being able to use MATE as the desktop environment? And any of this can break with a MacOS update, and there's no easy way to automatically configure a fresh install. You can no longer disable blocking animations in MacOS, there is no Spaces API for instantly moving a window from one desktop to another, etc. I do appreciate the effort, but this isn't true. > For almost every missing feature or annoyance in Macos, someone else has had the same thought and developed a solution. With KeyboardMaestro, it's not clear what the license is (which makes it concerning for use in the workplace.) KeyboardMaestro is $36 and BetterTouchTool is $22. It's like using Arch Linux, except the software costs money, is proprietary, and people choose Arch because they would prefer their own config over the comforts and defaults provided by other distros.Ĭonfiguring a MacOS machine might require spending over $100 on usability software, providing personal information to a myriad of companies (Tools like IINA or iTerm2 are the exception and not the default.), and even after all that you still have a variety of unfixable usability issues. It really should not require someone to pick together disparate pieces of software to come to a state of usability. I should note that I consider this is one of the biggest flaws with MacOS.
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