Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by volta83 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:58AM (#26955897)

This is Mac OS:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/jupmda/aquayabai_...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/mvuplf/yabaimacos...

Its called Yabai (+ skhd): https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

That is, you can have a tilin WM today with all the advantages of running MacOS.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by tl on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:12AM (#26956096)

From your third link:

   System Integrity Protection needs to be (partially) disabled
   for yabai to inject a scripting addition into Dock.app for
   controlling windows with functions that require elevated
   privileges. This enables control of the window server, which
   is the sole owner of all window connections, and enables
   additional features of yabai.

The risk Apple kills yabai after you're adjusted to it is real.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by volta83 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:16AM (#26956165)

> The risk Apple kills yabai after you're adjusted to it is real.

This holds for anything in the Apple ecosystem, up to Fortnite.

Yabai has been going for long, and every issue could be worked around relatively painlessly.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by matwood on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:24AM (#26957191)

> This holds for anything in the Apple ecosystem.

Holds for anything in almost any ecosystem. With that said, Apple has stated over and over the Mac will remain developer friendly. Being able to disable SIP, IMO is part of that.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by Lownin on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:27PM (#26958121)

I use yabai without disabling sip. You get most of the features. It's the first tiling WM I've used, so it's possible I'm missing something critical without disabling sip, but so far I'm quite happy with it despite whatever features are missing. ymmv, of course.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by athorax on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:17PM (#26957976)

FWIW, I run yabai without having disabled SIP and it works great. There is probably some subset of functionality I am missing out on, but it does what I need it to.

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