Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?

• miro-windows-manager

  3 368 10.0 Lua

  Intuitive and clever mechanism for moving windows using only arrows, even resizing windows by thirds or quarters! For OSX

For windows management:

Install this https://www.hammerspoon.org/

brew install —cask hammerspoon

Then follow the instructions here to install this:

https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager

Absolutely awesome. I’ve been using BetterTouchTool for windows management for years but I just started using Jump Desktop on my iPad for remote connection to my Mac and it wouldn’t work at all. Decided to try out hammerspoon today after hearing good things and it is amazing. Never going back to BTT for windows management.

• hammerspoon

  114 11,459 7.5 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

For windows management:

Install this https://www.hammerspoon.org/

brew install —cask hammerspoon

Then follow the instructions here to install this:

https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager

Absolutely awesome. I’ve been using BetterTouchTool for windows management for years but I just started using Jump Desktop on my iPad for remote connection to my Mac and it wouldn’t work at all. Decided to try out hammerspoon today after hearing good things and it is amazing. Never going back to BTT for windows management.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Rectangle

  723 24,403 8.2 Swift

  Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Two apps that remove a lot of my frustration working with macOS' window management:

- Contexts app, which makes Cmd-tab work like on Windows/Linux: https://contexts.co/

- Rectangle (the successor to Spectacle), which has a shortcut for maximizing windows: https://rectangleapp.com/

• komorebi

  97 6,605 9.4 Rust

  A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

• Nazm

  1 7 10.0 Rust

  Declarative configuration management for Windows

• yabai

  218 21,317 9.1 C

  A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

I recently had to start using MacOS for work after never using an Apple product ever.

Between MacPorts packages, Yabai[1], and skhd [2] I've found myself able to achieve a close enough setup in terms of tiling WM + system keybindings to make the desktop experience close enough to what I have using i3 or whatever else on Linux.

I still don't love using MacOS and would probably never buy a Macbook for personal use, but it's not really that bad and sure beats using Windows + WSL for development since at least MacOS is a UNIX

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

• skhd

  64 5,488 3.0 C

  Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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