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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by sofixa on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:37AM (#31081451)
But there's one giant flaw on MacBook touchpads. After hearing everyone drool over them and finally getting to try one ( newly issued corporate laptop), I'm shocked that you can't independently control the scroll direction of the touchpad and mouse scroll button. There's an option in both submenus ( touchpad and mouse), but they change the same setting, resulting in a really unintuitive (for me) setup. Where's Apple's attention to detail here? Why do you have two different toggles in two different menus change each other? Why are you forced the same way on two completely different devices with different UX?
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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by peatmoss on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:06PM (#31091948)
No amount of touch pad excellence erases the deficit of no tiling window manager and focus follows mouse in Linux. I recently upgraded to an M1 Macbook from an HP laptop running Ubuntu at work… and I’m having serious regrets.
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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by sofixa on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:25AM (#31093482)
I recall discussing focus follows mouse with a colleague on macOS years ago, did they really remove the feature?

Fingers crossed that the Asahi Linux project keeps advancing as good as they have.

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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by ideamotor on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:05AM (#31082545)
You can use third party tools and i believe command line to do this.
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Re:Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these... by sofixa on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:40PM (#31088775)
It's maddening how many third party apps with huge permissions one needs to get a macOS device to be customisable, like a keylogger for even basic keyboard shortcut customisations.
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