>Alt + tab >Mission control >Launchpad >Spotlight >Virtual desktops >Stage manager Too many ways to switch contexts in this absolute piece of shit of an OS.
What's that supposed to be, a giant taskbar on the side of the screen?
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 10:27:43 PM No.105614444
>>105613507 (OP) Gotta say I've ignored it for 2 years and forced myself to use it now, I kinda like it but it's basically taskbar behavior with groups of windows.
>>105614500 Yeah ok you have groups of windows and auto-minimize for non focused windows. It is different then.
I don't like how you have stage manager, snapping windows, virtual desktops and fullscreen mode. And exposé includes all windows in stage manager. It feels like an unfinished multitasking flow.
>muh automation >muh power user features show me ONE tool that's as powerful as the reworked spotlight/raycast or shortcuts which can trigger on retarded shit like receiving a message.
>>105614487 from what i understand liquid glass also refracts things behind the UI elements instead of just blurring them and that's the part i find interesting
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 10:58:39 PM No.105614682
>>105614572 bash? if you can't access imessage events (or anything else that happens on your comouter) via your shell it will only ever be because the company that develops the proprietary OS you run has imposed artificial limitations.
>>105616717 my workstation at home costs more than a toy mac
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:29:49 AM No.105616980
>>105613507 (OP) Look at that dogshit performance ahhahahaahahahahahahaha
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:32:18 AM No.105617005
>>105614410 This. All these context switching tools, yet custom hammerspoon scripts still beat all of them
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:56:43 AM No.105617153
>>105613507 (OP) macOS is legit but you can't install it on any modern x86 system. Apple hardware is nice but I want to play games on my computer and I don't need Adobe. So I use Linux. If I could install macOS on my 9950X 9070XT system and play games I would but alas I can't really justify it on a notebook either considering I bought HX 370 Asus notebook with 32GB and 120Hz for barely over half of what basic M4 Macbook Pro costs. I don't play games on it but I'm not paying more for worse hardware just to use a (somewhat) superior OS. macOS is 8/10 (ignoring vidya compatibility) Linux is 7/10 Windows is 5/10
>>105613507 (OP) I barely even use this feature on my iPad Linux workspaces have been a thing since forever, with Windows even copying the feature on Windows 10 And doesn't KDE have this feature already (Activities)? I don't really use KDE so I'm not sure
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:20:07 AM No.105618080
>>105617911 Nah it's not exactly the same, Stage Manager lets you group windows and bring them to the foreground at once I don't think it's that useful, personally
>>105617153 OS X obliterated Linux at its peak but these days you're not missing out on much. It's pretty unpleasant to use without one of Apple's trackpads.
>>105618019 >surrendering the most important propaganda and indoctrination outlet to jews and chinks without a fight the whitoid race still working hard for its well deserved extinction i see
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:08:55 AM No.105618348
>>105618037 it didn't they took most of the design ideas from webOS
>>105613507 (OP) >stage manager >mission control >spotlight search >app launcher
Gnome shell and KDE overview already have all these in one convenient screen that you get to by just hitting the super key Every year that goes by I am amazed that macos can't just unify this instead of breaking it into several ui features each with a different shortcut. Linux DEs surely won't implement this because it would be a major step back.
>>105614398 its literally a fancy sideloaded alt tab
anyone who says otherwise is just a shill
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:44:00 AM No.105619586
>>105613507 (OP) stage manager was the most hyper gay macos feature i had ever had the pleasure of using in my entire life, it was so gay i got cum in my asshole while using it.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:45:31 AM No.105619595
>>105619042 GNOME will implement it because they wish they were Apple employees and KDE devs will implement it to appease redditors.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:35:02 PM No.105619894
As an i3wm superior form of life I don't give a flying FUCK about this or alt+tab peasantry.
>>105613631 >(hold alt and press tab) Needing to keep alt pressed is deprecated. You want to trigger a filterable dialog with a single alt+tab press and then use arrows and enter.
>>105613507 (OP) I've always disabled this shit. I can't wait for Apple to remove it.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:20:45 PM No.105623405
>>105623083 The use case is to cope with MacOS's inherently fucked window management in a way that doesn't tacitly admit to the fact that MacOS has inherently fucked window management.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:45:28 PM No.105624031
based
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:46:50 PM No.105624046
>>105613507 (OP) wow that's something i never use on macos really looks like a killer feature I'm sure that's better than uhhhh
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:27:43 PM No.105624350
>>105618037 It's actually the reverse, macos looks the way it does because they've been systematically copying gnome since 3 released, same shit with microsoft copying every single kde thing released since windows 7.
>>105624447 The installed app overview is clearly copied from gnome, the way the GUI toolkit looks is clearly copied from gnome, since you know, macos didn't look like that before gnome 3 released, you literally install a macos like theme on gnome, put the window buttons on the left side and they're indistinguishable from one another.
>>105626965 Sure it can be a bit slower but now you can actually comfortably take your time to select what you need and you can type to filter, without a rush.
>>105613507 (OP) Uhh anon, the taskbar has existed on windows long before that
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 6:04:20 AM No.105627516
>>105624538 >The installed app overview copied from iOS (gnome devs stole it from iOS)
>the GUI toolkit flat shit was introduced in iOS before gnome, and it looks nothing like gnome
>they're indistinguishable from one another. you're blind
gnome devs always steal shit from iOS, Android and macOS
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 8:13:42 AM No.105628272
I'm a longterm Fedora + GNOME/Hyprland user. Use a macbook for work, and Stage manager is useful but there are many instances where it becomes too bothersome to keep using. It should allow use two windows at the same time, instead of forcing me to change it again. And emergent windows may be hidden unless you disable it. In the end, it gets in your way. I think it should be a feature in other DEs to quickly change between windows in the same desktop, when it works is great.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 8:58:34 AM No.105628527
it's like they looked at workspaces and tiling wm's and tried something like those without really understanding why you'd want to use them
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 9:05:50 AM No.105628569
>>105627237 want to know something even funnier? steve jobs threatened to sue the guy who made that if you think that 3D dock looks really macos-ey, keep in mind that was in 2003, 4 years before osx 10.5
>>105613507 (OP) I feel like so many of these features are just made so that investors can see "progress" or whatever happening. When would you ever use this? The swipe gestures already do this, and they're much less clunky and can display more windows in a more straightforward manner.
>>105633619 I'm still mad they took the cover flow option away from finder and the file picker. It was the absolute best way to quickly skim through a billion random pics.
>>105613507 (OP) >alt+tab >virtual desktop >(kde) windows+w >(kde) mouse to top left (or mapping some other shortcut) What an amazing feature! The efficiency it would add to my workflow!
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:02:45 AM No.105635166
>>105634475 it was an OpenGL widget and no one in nu-apple's DEI team was skilled enough to port it to Metal
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:11:12 AM No.105636564
linjeets btfo
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:02:00 AM No.105636875
>>105633619 it only happens to look like cover flow there as that's how the windows were placed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLFkG-f1aqw
>>105638410 I wouldn't want to rely on users having to do that if I was releasing software, they'll just bitch and send complaints. Much easier to tell MacOS users to fuck off.
>>105613507 (OP) I've already used it on ipad, it's a less polished version of vista's switcher wheel. Hopefully this new version will be a full convergence of ios and osx, something they have promised and not delivered on for years.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:26:05 AM No.105638572
>>105614682 >https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1935389447023116360 Totally wasting my time with retarded bullshit for which i'll also need to hack in a shortcut for gnome search or whatever
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:25:13 PM No.105639931
>>105613507 (OP) Stage manager is a gay shit feature nobody uses, even on the ipad it was developed for.
>>105639931 Yeah I forced myself to use it for a couple of days, it was nice at first but windows popping up pushing the current one in the back, and things like steam completely ignoring it pissed me off. Feels like they released it as a novelty and never took user feedback to improve it.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:14:08 PM No.105640222
The world would be a better place if people stopped arguing about stupid fucking dumb shit and actually started coding "better software" if you dislike something you can still try to do better, but since your whole existance is to argue "yeah i'm better because i use this" and not doing anything useful to humanity exept making monkey noises you will be retarded for your whole existance
>>105638437 yea, the mac os crowd are definitely the "it just werks" kind of crowd, needing to -got forbid- use your computer is just not acceptable. they will pay you to avoid clicking a button, exploit that.
>>105613507 (OP) mac and windows are the ones who are stealing shit gnome and kde had for 20 years, 0 original ideas
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:09:25 AM No.105645662
>>105613507 (OP) I've never even messed with this on macOS. I just use Mission Control when I want to switch windows.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:45:23 AM No.105645934
>>105613507 (OP) >Linux users should familiarize with this macOS feature called stage manager, consider gnome or kde will indeed steal it. On KDE, this is just four fingers up on the trackpad gesture
>>105613507 (OP) Using a gif to shill for a rebranding of afeature that has existed since 2003 (at latest) in 2025 on every major OS (even MacOS itself). Going full circle.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:48:49 AM No.105647188
>>105613507 (OP) >another stolen feature that palm invented over 2 decades ago has any modern desktop come up with a single unique idea that they didn't copy from palm like monkeys? should all mac windows and linux devs kill themselves?
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 6:43:11 AM No.105648005
>>105613507 (OP) >>105614899 This was stolen from linux. Compiz Fusion had a feature I think it was called 'Thumbnail aside' or something and it minimized windows to a small docked position on the screen. This was in about 2005. Can't wait for retard apple to claim they invented wobbly windows or the desktop cube. You can still get the effect in Compiz I think you have to run an older version of Gnome, and install the misc/extra effects from synaptic.