Lima: Linux-on-Mac (“macOS Subsystem for Linux”, “Containerd for Mac”)

• yabai

  218 21,317 9.1 C

  A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

> I sometimes have 100+ editor, terminal, and browser windows. Linux has many window managers up to the task (i3, xmonad, openbox, and countless more). Mac has the default one which you CAN'T change.

This is so much my issue. I love i3wm, it's been a revolution for how I work. I never really understood the "desktop" concept with overlapping windows very much, and i3 works at an abstraction that is very close to how I imagine my desktop. I keep stacks of windows open in an arrangement that might be bizarre to anyone except me, but when I look at it it's 90% how I want it to be, a place no other WM/DM has ever gotten.

But I also don't want to deal with linux any more. Please don't sealion me with "but linux works fine for me!" here, but using linux feels like death by a thousand frustrations. Most recently I had to alias pulseaudio -k to pk because pulseaudio got out of whack so often I got used to killing it. That, plus I can't live with Ctrl-based shortucts anymore: I get serious pinky and wrist fatigue from a full day's work on linux. I can't be bothered to work around an entire missing staircase, so I switched back to macOS, where even if the WM isn't as good I can live with it.

(Incidentally, have you heard of yabai[1] / amethyst[2]? They're tiling WMs for macOS. I've been thinking of trying both out for a while now but I can't spare the time.)

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

• lima

  106 13,934 9.7 Go

  Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

  

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• Rectangle

  723 24,403 8.2 Swift

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

Forget window snapping for a dollar, try window snapping for free with Rectangle! https://rectangleapp.com/

And I agree. As a user and developer, I have no idea what the OP is on about

• Docker-OSX

  132 35,279 5.7 Shell

  Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

Pretty sure that exists already? Darwin isn't that special; I used to be able to run it in qemu easily enough (straight from a disk image of an iMac, although that was a long time ago), and if you want easy-to-use https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX looks unbeatable (I say, having never tried it:]).

• noah

  2 1,860 0.3 C

  Discontinued Bash on Ubuntu on macOS

  

There was an attempt, but it was archived https://github.com/linux-noah/noah

• Amethyst

  148 14,149 6.8 Swift

  Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

• HomeBrew

  1,281 39,373 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

> This includes automatic installation of casks at runtime.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Acceptable...

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