macpaste reviews and mentions
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Features macOS should copy from Linux
The article feels a bit written by AI somehow, although I’m probably jumping to that conclusion too much these days.
Anywho, a lot of the stuff discussed in the article is actually available on macOS but maybe not without a bit of work, the macOS version of Linux setup work.
1. Different desktop environments: you can totally install many X11 desktop environments on your Mac via macports, they won’t feel native but they’ll run faster than if you put them in a VM. I ran awesome tiling WM on my Mac for a while. Ports doesn’t seem to offer Firefox or Chromium but there are other browsers like Epiphany available.
2. Command line package management: yep, no built in tool. There’s ports, brew, nix and others, but you have to install by hand. I’m not sure brew is any more confusing than apt, if you’re comfortable with the CLI you should be fine to figure out brew or ports.
3. Imagine what MacOS would be like if you could change anything you wanted: sounds good I guess? I would add tiling, although there’s already a tiler for macOS called Yabai which seems pretty good.
4. Desktop cube: welp, a cube animation plays when you switch macOS users via fast user switching maybe that’s enough.
5. Middle click paste: not perfect since it doesn’t have a second clipboard, but this seems like it could work: https://github.com/josephlbarnett/macpaste
6. Snap/Flatpak/apps that include their dependencies: all Mac apps already include their deps or use a system framework that’s backwards compatible for years. You can install them from a store ui, too. Snap/Flatpak need a Linux kernel, they’re always gonna run a bit slower if you need to run a second kernel in a hypervisor so why bother?
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