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Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell... by StavrosK on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:36PM (#16066908)
Certainly, but I think that's an unfair comparison. You're comparing the single available thing in OS X to the multitude of options available in Linux. If you want consistency, always use the defaults, and they'll always be consistent. That's what Apple forces you to do.
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Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell... by jorvi on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:30PM (#16067502)
Wouldn't that cut both ways? If its unfair to laud macOS for its consistency i.e. forced defaults, you likewise cannot laud Linux for its multitude of options i.e. tweakability.

On a sidenote, you needn't have switch to Linux. Command-Tab-Plus[1] has the feature you want ('Isolate applications in Spaces').

[1]http://commandtab.noteifyapp.com

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Re:Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell... by StavrosK on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:23AM (#16069494)
No, "forced defaults" is a trivial definition for consistency, as then everyone could be lauded for being consistent simply by removing all the options. Consistency is presenting a familiar interface despite having options. It's like how you can't have courage when there's nothing to fear.

Thanks for the command-tab-plus shoutout, I later found Witch (IIRC) that did the same, but it was a bunch of annoyances that drove me to switch (no "Cut" in the Finder, homebrew didn't exist, the Spaces thing, etc). I do miss Photoshop and Lightroom, but I have a second Windows partition I use for those.

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