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Re:Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS by JoBrad on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:28PM (#31065559)
As someone who just moved to macOS, I have to say that the vaunted “Apple cares so much about user experience” and “it just works” ethos is pretty creaky. I’ve used Windows and Linux for years, and never had a window get stuck under the taskbar. Happens way too often on Mac. Some things are great. But the annoyances stick out like a sore thumb.

It’s a good thing that macOS is so much better at efficiently running apps than other OS, because between Karabiner, MiddleClick, Rectangles, etc. I’m going to end up with 75 little apps to fix the stuff that works everywhere else.

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Re:Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS by mxmilkiib on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:13AM (#31068726)
Aside; I tried Windows 11 on a VM recently and I see MS removed the Move option from the right-click context menu for apps in the bar, that used to allow one to hit an arrow key (and move the window around with the arrow keys) once then simply move the mouse to move the window, so I had to full screen the VM to rearrange windows within it.
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Re:Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS by JoBrad on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:11PM (#31079133)
Oh wow. I definitely relied on that when a window didn’t act right. I don’t even know if the Win+Shift+arrow keys would move it, with a single window? You could pane it, obviously, but that’s not really the same.
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Re:Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS by nullwarp on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:00PM (#31066166)
For me macos has easily the absolute window management of any WM system I've ever used. Everything feels unnatural and awkward and requires me to do exactly what you say, download 50 random apps to get it to behave in some even remotely reasonable way.

And if i brush the touch bar and hit a button one more time I might just chuck the thing out a window.

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