Feek's macOS useful tools, utilities and applications thread

JollyJamma said:
you're missing the fact that it doesn't behave like any other OS out there, finding that setting isn't intuitive and if it gave me a welcome screen and asked me what behaviour I wanted, it wouldn't be an issue.

I'm not saying that the option doesn't exist, it's an OS, I'm sure it's capable of doing anything Apple want it to do, I'm saying that it's unintuitive and hard to use coming from a Windows/Linux environment.

I'm sure you know all the OSX tricks and settings. I don't. I've never used OSX before and when I looked for that setting, I couldn't find it in any of the normal places you'd expect that setting to be in the menu options.
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macOS does it on a folder basis rather than a global basis. It means you can have different options for different folders which is quite handy. That is what the .DS_store file is for. I saves options like that for each folder.
 
Cromulent said:
macOS does it on a folder basis rather than a global basis. It means you can have different options for different folders which is quite handy. That is what the .DS_store file is for. I saves options like that for each folder.
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Sure. Windows has the same thing too but Windows makes an effort to explain that option and have the 2 settings in the same location. You can create a .ini file for your flash drive to make it load with a background or whatever settings regardless of which system its plugged into and that's great.

What if I want the same folder behaviour across the system automatically? I've tried to do that and it still doesn't do what I want it to do. Windows gives you the behavioural option to apply to the one folder only or all folders with that folder within the same settings page.

I think what might help is if I explained it like this:

I can OS. I am technical. I can work with Linux and Windows fine. I know that these settings can/do exist.

Coming from those operating systems though, OSX behaves in a totally different way and isn't consistent and many people have this gripes with it, not just me, so in the 3 days I've tried to use OSX, I've found it frustrating to learn.

That being said, the M4 chip is great and Chrome allows proper 4k display scaling in OSX that fixes most of my usage needs anyway.
 
JollyJamma said:
you're missing the fact that it doesn't behave like any other OS out there, finding that setting isn't intuitive and if it gave me a welcome screen and asked me what behaviour I wanted, it wouldn't be an issue.

I'm not saying that the option doesn't exist, it's an OS, I'm sure it's capable of doing anything Apple want it to do, I'm saying that it's unintuitive and hard to use coming from a Windows/Linux environment.

I'm sure you know all the OSX tricks and settings. I don't. I've never used OSX before and when I looked for that setting, I couldn't find it in any of the normal places you'd expect that setting to be in the menu options.
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I don't remember changing any setting to make it do this, it's just how it's always been. I'm not trying to be awkward or superior, it's just how it's always worked for me. If I could say why I get this behaviour and why you don't, I'd be more than happy to share but I really have no idea.
 
Feek said:
I don't remember changing any setting to make it do this, it's just how it's always been. I'm not trying to be awkward or superior, it's just how it's always worked for me. If I could say why I get this behaviour and why you don't, I'd be more than happy to share but I really have no idea.
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I know you're trying to help. I appreciate that. My biggest gripe isn't that the setting exists/doesn't exist, it's that the whole experience has been frustrating.
 
I don't have anything to contribute but can I just thank @Feek and everyone else who has contributed to this thread. I have not used Mac regularly for maybe 8 years or so but just got myself a macbook air as I am finding more and more that my son either needs to use my Linux desktop for school or wants to play games on it leaving me with a tablet which the small screen was frustrating me. Lots of useful tips and tricks on this thread. Many thanks.
 
Some additions to this thread

Chris Titus has created an OSX Util to change the behaviour of OSX and as he puts it "Fix macOS crazy defaults to be functional and remove animations and other apple b.s."

(I and others have a launch bug with the latest version though)

Wox is a cross platform launcher that looks great
 
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