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- Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
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Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I'm not sure they appeal to the same group of users. macOS is IMNHO much worse than GNU/Linux with a proper window manager, much less comfortable to use with multiple desktops, and forces the use of a mouse/trackpad way too much.[1]
The m2 can run Linux - but external display support is probably a long way off.
So for the user wanting to run Linux - m2 isn't really viable - unless you actually work on it with just the built-in screen - for me that doesn't work ergonomically.
I have the m2 - it's not terrible - I suspect I'd prefer one of these.
[1] Rectangle and AutoRaise helps a lot, making the UX livable:
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Make Mac usable for Linux user
AutoRaise for focus-follow-mouse. I don't want auto raise, so that is disabled https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
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Your best recommendations for apps, which are not broadly known.
Note: there are two of them. One is more DIY (and has an option to only focus windows), another (renamed to AutoFocus) seems to have better UI.
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AutoRaise - A Focus-Follows-Mouse Implementation on Steroids
Is this the same thing?
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What's an app that you use regularly but it feels like you're the only person who knows about it?
Should have put a warning on it, D. The default configuration brings the window in which the cursor is on top which is also personally super annoying. I am using an experimental branch which only focuses on the app with the cursor and does not raise to the top.
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Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu
https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise then, as mentioned before.
Although what you can't do (I think) is having (input) focus on a non-raised window, because that would break the focused-app-is-active-app-hence-menubar (because keyboard shortcuts) model imposed by the window manager.
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Those "power users" who switched to Mac from Windows, do you find yourself as efficient using macOS now? Finding myself preferring Windows ...
I've been coming back to this question periodically for about 10 years and I finally found a simple solution: AutoRaise https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise By default it enables focus-follows-mouse AND autoraise. You can delay the autoraise with a config option. It also has what they call "warp" function that centers the mouse pointer in a window when you Command-Tab to the window. I never knew I needed this until I tried it, but once I tried it, I can't live without it!
- Two apps that are absolute must-have (IMO) - Rectangle and AutoRaise
multipass
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k8s-snap (Canonical Kubernetes) pour un déploiement simple et rapide d’un cluster k8s …
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
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VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs.
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
I have been using Multipass [0] for a while and it works great to quickly spin up an Ubuntu environment on my MacBook. It supports cloud config in case you want a custom instance.
It seems to be limited to running Ubuntu instances only (at least, I haven't figured out how to run other Linux instances) but if you want a quick clean Ubuntu VM I would recommend it.
Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.
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Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
How does it compare to https://multipass.run/?
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Hands-on Kubernetes and maybe go for a certification
If you have a reasonably beefy computer, you can always try setting up Multipass and set up 2-3 nodes for a k8s cluster, it's how I'm doing my own certification training. I do have a k3s Raspberry Pi cluster, but with Pi prices being what they are still it'd almost be cheaper to do a cloud setup. ☹️
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Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
Whenever I need a VM on my MacOS I reach out to Multipass[1].
It is a project by Canonical and has a decent amount of features to get the job done. However, it only supports Ubuntu VMs and has some rough edges.
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Moving from TrueNAS to Linux. Is it right move?
For my selfhosted stuff, I use a combination of docker and multipass ( https://multipass.run/), Ubuntu.
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Would it be possible to spin up an unconfigured Kubernetes multi-node cluster using minikube ?
Multipass was a big help for me learning kubeadm. Super easy to spin up Ubuntu VMs and kill them when you’re done. Virtualbox or libvirt would work too, but I found multipass to be easier for ephemeral headless instances
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Are there things like Ephemeral Virtual Machines that can be used in CI system?
Vagrant or Multipass would be my first guesses. There isn't anything else out there that is going to orchestrate VMs the way you want.
What are some alternatives?
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
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