![]() Same for the 'background download' service, the search service mentioned in the OP (although that's only used internally by Windows afaik, but by several sub-components), etc. But if you want to allow one program to access the network that way but not another one, well there is (to my knowledge, and I haven't really looked into this) no way to do that. It seems that those are a process of its own (sometimes), likely out-of-process COM instances. I used Glasswire for a long time, and when you install it on a new machine you get a lot of allow/block notifications but then if you go back and look at the 'rule set' that was build up that way some months later, it's really hard to see what was blocked for what reason and if you actually should be blocking it. So now you have decide if some access should or should not be allowed but with very little information as to what process will in the end use that access. A lot of this sort of functionality is offloaded onto opaquely named services. For missing functionality, like keyboard-driven tiling, I fix things using Hammerspoon. You need first-class support for floating windows, or at least smarter tiling.īut I agree, some things on macOS are not as good (workspaces), or plain dumb/useless (stage manager). ![]() I've tried using dwm or Sway with my 43" screen and it's incredibly awkward. It also makes so much more sense if you have a very large screen. I've switched from Linux/BSD after 15 years there, and it immediately made so much more sense to me. It suits some people, it frustrates others. Mac has a different window management paradigm. Instead, each new version brings a new quick switch or workspace functionality that I have never seen anyone use. Everything must be random size and overlap weirdly. > If you do consider switching, one warning about Mac is this: Window management is utter garbage. (This is where I really dislike the change to the green traffic light, I don't want Window-like behavior on a Mac) I don't want to see a bunch of dead space on my screen, I just want to show the maximum amount of content my application+display can show at once. Safari pretty intelligently figures out the maximum horizontal width of a page before padding would be applied and resizes to that when zooming unless your window is already beyond that breakpoint, for example. I never minded the application-specific Zoom behavior in macOS, in fact I find it much saner than Windows where you often end up with dead space inside an Application doing nothing. and I end up fullscreening the damned window instead and curse under my breath. Even though I've developed muscle memory to hold down option every time I hit the green traffic light there's still times where I forget, let go early, etc. I never want to use Full Screen, and when they introduced it in Lion with a dedicated button I was content to ignore it. I'm still pissed at Apple for changing the default behavior of the green traffic light from Zoom to Full Screen. I mean, remarkably stable compared to computer back when, of course, but compared to Windows 10, I have more crashes and even had to restart a couple of times! Apps just crash a lot, but that's probably due to the Arm64. Oh and for some reason, it's less stable than my prior windows machine. If you do consider switching, one warning about Mac is this: The search bar itself comes up very quickly though. Relevant results (folders + files) do appear, but usually you have to scroll. If you search for a program, it takes just that tiny second to update results such that if you type one letter too much, your top result goes from program to web search, and pressing enter opens Safari. However, it only accepts your query as math. You do your quick math in there (where you'd call calc.exe in Windows). I switched to an M1 Mac pro recently, and it has its own set of challenges.įor instance, there is no start menu but a search bar called Spotlight.
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