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On filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I believe strongly in customizing one's tools

The irony of saying this about a Mac.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There are tons of utils to customize the MacOS UI, including lots of open-source ones and some that kick ass off anything on Linux or Windows. Anyone saying that MacOS can't be customized, has never used MacOS.

[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

You inclined to drop some examples?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Hammerspoon and Alfred are way better automation utils than alternatives in Windows or Linux. Karabiner might be too, haven't looked into third-party Linux remapping utils yet.

HyperSwitch and a dozen other utils allow customizing cmd-tab switching, namely add switching between windows instead of apps.

Native Clipy clipboard manager is way snappier than CopyQ. At least for Windows there's Ditto.

There's even an util called Mos fixing the fact that apps with foreign UI frameworks don't understand the mouse scrolling speed properly, and treat the mouse and the touchpad differently. Which is also present in Windows.

MacOS' Cocoa UI framework allows addressing any element in an app's window via xpath (iirc) and manipulate them, if given accessibility permissions from the user. Which permits doing a lot of UI automation without fiddling with mouse coordinates and faking clicks. And can be done with native AppleScript (although I'd prefer that they properly supported JXA instead). By the way, more than a few apps provide their own support for AppleScript, such that for example you can access notes in Evernote with it.

[–] EtzBetz@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Raycast, HazeOver, Nightfall, Amphetamine, Yabai, Glide, AltTab, AlDente, MonitorControl, LinearMouse come to my mind right now. Probably forgot a few.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Wow, I totally forgot that Danger 5 exists.

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MacBook != MacOS

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah its not the minimalist distros were all used to running but it still is a Unix OS with root privileges no?

Either way its the dudes work PC, probably doesn't have a choice.

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I meant Asahi Linux.