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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Mac just added window tiling by default now. There were extensions you could install otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It has. I use it everyday. It's shit. Apple keeps moving windows to different desktops without user interaction, I can't snap windows to each other, full screen takes over a whole desktop and ESC inside such a window puts it back to some random state.

Better Touch Tool did a better job a decade or so ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

full screen takes over a whole desktop

and creates it. It's a whole new workspace just for putting an app in fullscreen and none of the shortcuts to jump to workspace x work with it of course.

The rest of the WM can be made bearable but there's no way around that stupid design choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you use a different extension/plugin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you mean? It's a basic feature of the macOS window manager. Pressing the fullscreen button on a window does all of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a program in the Mac App Store called Magnet, could try that. I think there are some others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Magnet seems to be a window management shortcut thingy like rectangle but probably worse, costs money and likely to enshittify.

It cannot influence how the macOS window manager works internally, it can only ask it to e.g. place a window in a certain location.