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Can't believe some of you didn't just google "snap windows mac" or something in all the years of thinking you wanted the snap feature.
Good for you, there's a reason both exist... to each his own.
Will you use bootcamp or just buy a windows laptop?
I've never understood this obsession with docking stations.
Macs have no place in a business that isnt graphic design or some shit. They use them in my office while i use a windows laptop. They constantly complain about the internet being slow and poor wifi connection, while i sit here with a stable, fast connection and a look on my face like
They are useless as work machines.
... if I could use my Mac and only my Mac with no Windows software or utilities, I think I'd actually be quite happy....
I use both at work and home and it's all just...computers...to me. I don't have a preference either way. I miss some features while in OS X and some features while in Windows. I really wish Windows had Expose/Mission Control. I love being able to zoom out all my windows and pick the one I need. Waaay better than ALT+TAB. But then I love Windows' file system a lot more, and Office apps are far better and easier to use on Windows.
You know about clicking the middle mouse button, right?
No...my mouse doesn't have a middle mouse button. Detail this process for me.
How can you not have a middle mouse button? Do you have a scroll wheel? Click it. Or go buy a new mouse
You know about clicking the middle mouse button, right?
Clicking the mouse scroll wheel scrolls a webpage in a browser, and isn't configured to do anything in any other app. It doesn't zoom out all windows like Expose does.
Power. Maybe external monitor. Maybe ethernet.
Such a hardship.
What is this post? What are you talking about?Macs have no place in a business that isnt graphic design or some shit. They use them in my office while i use a windows laptop. They constantly complain about the internet being slow and poor wifi connection, while i sit here with a stable, fast connection and a look on my face like
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They are useless as work machines.
It's because of silly posts like this that you lost your mod privileges and had to change your username stowpumpkin. Get it together man!
What? Try power, two external monitors, ethernet, mouse, keyboad and if you work in dev, possibly dev hardware. That's not even factoring the other stuff I have plugged in. That's the bare minimum for working environment here and quite common with how I see other developers set up. Add in going in and out of meetings and bringing your laptop with you, what a pain to have to hook it up or unhook it all the time.
No...my mouse doesn't have a middle mouse button. Detail this process for me.
This is what clicking the middle mouse button does for me on Windows 8.1.
Can't wait for the day I get a job in a full Linux shop.
There are many free 3rd party porgrams that enable this. Try BetterTouchTool.Firstly they're is no snap.
That's what Mission Control/Expose is for. Having a mess of windows isn't a problem when you can easily select which one you want. If it really bothers you, use the aforementioned window snapping.Mac liked to dump program windows everywhere.
Use list or column view, they're both way better than icons.They also have this policy across the file viewer where the default view is to show files and folders all over the place. The number of times I go into a folder and there are files on top of files is so frustrating
You can change this in the Finder preferences.Also who wants to see a list of every file on their Mac when they open file explorer?
The dock is hideable. Peek view can be enabled with HyperDock.Windows jump lists and peek views are much more useful than the mac dock which is a bit of an eyesore.
After some googling, it looks like this is an issue with UK keyboards where they swapped the commands for £ and #. You can switch to using a US keyboard setup (which is almost identical) by going to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input sources and then adding US and removing Britain as a option. Alternatively, try KarabinerDon't get me started on the keyboard either alt-3 instead of having a hash key is murder when working as a web dev.
If windows sorted out a decent terminal
Well, as a developer, switching from Windows to OSX was one of the best choice I have ever had.
Honestly looks like the main problem is that Microsoft's business software doesn't play nice with anything not Windows.
More like Apple computers are not properly compatible with industry standards. AD, Office and Sharepoint all predate OSX, and as far as I am concerned it is Apple's responsibility to make OSX work with them, not the other way around. Microsoft are partly to blame as well, as Office for Mac is their product and it completely sucks.
I worked in a MS shop doing Sharepoint internal apps and hear it still isn't perfect if it's not IE to this day.More like Apple computers don't work properly with industry standards, and Microsoft don't really give a shit about their Mac products.
I'm the SharePoint admin as well, 2013 made some very nice strides toward OS and browser independence, it's not perfect but it's getting much better.I worked in a MS shop doing Sharepoint internal apps and hear it still isn't perfect if it's not IE to this day.
This.
Homebrew is a gift from the gods.
More like Apple computers are not properly compatible with industry standards. AD, Office and Sharepoint all predate OSX, and as far as I am concerned it is Apple's responsibility to reach out and make sure OSX works with them, not the other way around. The world needs compatibility, you can't just alienate a large portion of your users because of incompatibilities with major software.
Microsoft are partly to blame as well, as Office for Mac is their product and it completely sucks.
This and the fact that you are sitting on a golden unix-like system that works (aka non linux).
As a developer, the only real thing I miss is Visual Studio and everything related like plugins and so on. Xcode isn't sufficient.
This will never, ever, ever happen.
As someone who literally got his first Mac yesterday, the lack of snapping windows is very, very sorely missed for my programming needs.
And no, four finger fullscreen swipe is absolutely not a substitute.
He was probably referring to dual booting.
What language(s) do you primarily work with? If you're using the MS stack, yeah you're out of luck, but there are great tools on OS X for anything else (IntelliJ IDEA, Webstorm, Sublime Text, Coda, Codekit...)
Using Xcode for anything other than iOS or OS X app development is silly.
You can't develop an OS around software that you want to work on it.
Full Linux shops are actually everywhere. But continue to believe if you want.....
Principally C and various assemblies (I work on compilers and virtual machines). I used Sublime Text (and it's sublime) as my editor, but since I don't have the licence I switched to atom some times ago. Just the fact that I have clang as the default C compiler almost justify my switch to OS X.
I maintain Xcode principally for Instruments, since I didn't find any other decent profiler.
What I really miss of Visual Studio is its debugger.
Alfred.app also destroys anything on Windows or Linux when it comes to productivity tools
Launchy? Gnome-Do? Synapse? DMenu?
I tried Atom and I just did not like it all. Slow, really slow and just really bad typeface.