Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux

Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by simonh on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:39AM (#19776540)

I don't really get this, MacOS is super tinker-y. You can script multi-app work flows with Automator, set up folder actions to magically transmute files (I have one that insta-shrinks the images in PDFs for me and puts them in an output directory), cast magic spells on selected data using custom services, use the full range of Unix commands for text processing. You have Perl and Python right there.

The things that are resistant to tinkering in MacOS are the UI and how you do stuff. Those are infinitely flexible in Linux, but heavily standardised on the Mac. However when it comes to getting useful stuff done, the Mac has a wealth of tinker-y toys waiting to do your bidding.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by michaelgrafl on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:42AM (#19776789)

I think you have proven your parent's point by drawing the line between useful and time wasting tinkering.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by panpanna on Monday April 29, 2019 @06:55AM (#19777262)

These whole thread saddens me.

The amount of "tinkering" I have done on my Ubuntu PC was limited to changing background and reducing icon size to fit my monitor better.

I'm not going to apologise for having better performance and first class containers.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by simonh on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:39AM (#19777749)

There is certainly a fair bit of extremity measuring going on in this thread, and I'm as guilty as anybody. The fact is a default install of MacOS or any of the mainstream Lunux distros is a fine system just as it is.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by coldtea on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:35AM (#19777727)

>The amount of "tinkering" I have done on my Ubuntu PC was limited to changing background and reducing icon size to fit my monitor better.

Outliers need not apply.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by coldtea on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:34AM (#19777721)

Those are not tinkering things -- those are productive uses.

Tinkering is endlessly playing with the window manager configs, changing desktop environments, getting your system "just so", switching this (e.g. audio framework) for that, etc.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by sciurus on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:29AM (#19777383)

> The things that are resistant to tinkering in MacOS are the UI

But not completely resistant. For example, there are multiple tiling window managers for os x.

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Re:Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux by snazz on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:21AM (#19777620)

My friend uses one of those and it takes over a second for a new window to find its place. I can’t see what productivity benefits you would get from that. It look pretty hacky compared to any decent X11 WM with tiling functionality.

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