For design inspiration, I'm trying to gather a list of desktop apps that are fun/enjoyable and don't have a corporate/enterprise feel to them.
Not games or streaming apps though. It feels like desktop app design hasn't kept pace with modern web app design but maybe my searches aren't using the right terms.
I realize this is subjective, but I'd still like more examples. 😁 Thx!
Need to see your routing table on #macOS or #FreeBSD or #Linux ? Type:
netstat -rn
The entry with the "G" flag is your gateway. #Linux users may want to use the ip command (look for "default" entry which is your gateway):
ip route show
The thing I hate most about #macOS is how simple problems which should have simple solutions on any other operating system almost ALWAYS have no solution at all. The #Apple Forum's super helpful too, can always count on them to give you the "welp, you should've not had that problem in the first place - too bad <3".
In this case, the context is: you cannot copy over your #TimeMachine backups from a drive to another - which seems like a very fucking logical thing to do for when your backup is growing or your drive is aging. The solution provided by everyone is to just "start a new backup on the new drive" or "you should've used a bigger drive 3 years ago". These fucking bitches.
For my #ThrowbackThursday, here's a snapshot of my desk from 2013. Although my workspace was pretty cluttered then and still is, despite being in a different house now. Under the table, there was a tower PCs, running #FreeBSD. The laptop that was on was using #MacOS, while the mini ITX desktop was powered by #NetBSD with #Xen, hosting various services in some domUs. My smartphone at the time was a QWERTY-equipped Samsung #Android, which I had chosen in the hopes of finding a keyboard experience similar to the superb one offered by #BlackBerry. Additionally, there was another laptop beneath the phones operating on #OpenBSD. The Dockstar, running NetBSD, served as my file server; it even had remote access, albeit with a modest broadband speed of just 1.5 Mbit/sec.
@gamingonlinux I recently bought an #Asus#Zephyrus G14, hoping to have one laptop for work, hobbies and light gaming (dual-boot). How disappointed I was to find that #Linux is almost unusable on this machine (fuck #Nvidia). I tried to adapt to #Windows because most of the software I need is available for Windows. But Windows is so disgusting, I don't understand how anyone can choose Windows. Linux desktop environments are simply superior to Windows (or #MacOS for that matter). Linux FTW.
To my #OpenCoreLegacyPatcher bubble: my 2013 iMac stopped booting this morning after reapplying the root patches. See the screenshot for details! I am at a loss. Reinstall perhaps? Or can this be repaired otherwise? #apple#macos
With the new version of procfs the memory reading is more accurate, and it shows that #Linux distros are actually using more RAM than previously thought. While it's possible to run them at 2 or 4 GB with quite some success, you will start swapping sooner than later. The minimum these days is 8 GB, and that doesn't make Linux much more efficient than #MacOS or #Windows. Sure, there are distros like DSL for old PCs, but modern desktop versions are as memory hungry as their competition. #opensource
I love how on #macOS when you intend to move a bunch of files to a folder, and when one file with the same name already exists in the destination, you're only given the option to stop the entire thing, to replace the existing file, or move anyway under a different name. Not a single option that just... idk... skip moving that one (or however many affected) file maybe? The best thing is, that stop option, the dialog that asks you gives you a checkmark option to "Apply to all" (unchecked by default) - bcos of this, a user unfamiliar with #Finder's brilliance might assume that "stop" simply means "skip" commonly found on other OS-es including #Windows and #Linux for file operations such as moving/copying, 'cept not, "stop" literally just stops doing anything.
Oh, also, you can't even enjoy what you have found to be so common such as doing a shift-click selection on Finder... unless you happen to be in the right "view" mode. That simple thing couldn't even just... work. I honestly can go on and on about how slow that piece of shit is at performing searches or copying/moving files, or how modifying all the ridiculous preferences take forever bcos they hide in multiple, nonsensical places when on #Dolphin for example, you get one nice menu with sensible tabs and options where you could do wtv needs doing in ~1 minute. Heck, even setting the default app to be used to open a certain file type requires a hidden shortcut that then opens up a stupid looking window at the edge of your screen with tiny af buttons and GOSH I CAN GO ON FOREVER.
Fuck Finder, honestly. I'd take that ugly ass #FileExplorer anyday of the week if it means I don't have to deal with Finder. Thank god I'm a Linux user, blessed with #KDE's Dolphin. I'm almost certain #Apple only hires interns for anything software over there.
As I'm setting up my new Mac, I realise I'm missing a lot of my fav #KDE apps that I didn't even know I relied on quite a bit - things like #Filelight or even as basic as #Kate. Heck even using #Finder was ridiculously miserable since while it doesn't look much different than #Dolphin, it's at least 10x more inferior in EVERY way.
KDE has always insisted on making their apps available across platforms (besides just #Linux) in order to promote their visibility to non-Linux users, and that strategy definitely works bcos that's how I ended up using something like #KDEConnect and part of why I made the switch (to Linux), but unfortunately that "universal" compatibility never seems to include #macOS. Fair enough though, as shitty as #Windows is, that's where people are.
@thurrott The idea of preference for me has faded when it comes to desktop operating systems. I use #windows11#macOS and #Linux Fundamentally they are all the same at this point. There are little things I like about each. On Windows, I prefer the skeuomorphic icons, on Mac I like the detail and UI gestures, Linux I like that it’s free and does 99% of the things we buy a Mac or Windows device for.
Just want to throw a random #gamedev question out there:
How many of y'all are working on or developing for #Apple devices and #macOS / #OSX, and how are you finding the experience when compared with #Windows and #Linux?
I've been using just #Podman on my #SteamDeck, and both #Docker and Podman together on my main PC (also #Linux) perfectly fine - on #macOS though I've always particularly despised Docker bcos of its need for a GUI and how often that thing slugs and crashes on #Apple silicon. Never tried this before, but kinda tempted to just use Podman on my #MacBook, and live without Docker just to see how that's like.
UPDATE: So far, things seems to be working well (for my dev usecase)! I installed Podman (formulae) using #Homebrew, created the default Podman-managed VM, and started it. Like Docker, Podman definitely still needs a VM to run on anything not Linux, but unlike what I'm used to with Docker, this is nicer since it doesn't require a GUI app to handle that (you still can btw using the Podman Desktop app) and managing it non-graphically is super easy.
The only caveat is that you need to start the Podman machine/VM before you're able to use it, and unlike on Linux, it's not like you could create a service that starts the VM once upon boot. This is not an issue if you use the desktop app, but if like me you wish to only use the formulae, the simple solution is to set something up in your shell profile (in my case, a #Fish config) which checks if the Podman machine is running, and if it doesn't - start it, each time I open up a new shell/terminal session - which is how I normally use Docker/Podman anyway. This way, it uses up about ~830MB of RAM for the VM but that's fine since there's no additional RAM being used for a GUI app or the like.
I wrote a short guide on how to set up Podman on both Linux and macOS for anyone interested.