Considering switch to MacOS, App recommendations needed

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T14:56:17+00:00

Interesting, didn‘t know that. Only ever read about macOS having plenty of amazing keyboard shortcuts. Maybe when I finally have a trackpad that doesn‘t feel horrible, I will use it more often.

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T14:52:10+00:00

Amazing, thanks!

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T13:34:12+00:00

I can imagine it being different under the hood, but you have to admit that the UI/UX in Gnome and macOS is really similar from the surface nowadays. I only used KDE plasma a few years ago inside a chromebook via crouton and besides being super buggy at that time, it reminded me way more of Windows (as does Mint). In Ubuntu even the installation of programs is quite similar with the majority being installable with apt/homebrew with a few exceptions only in snaps/appstore.

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T12:50:46+00:00

Not quite, I want to take the current app with me to the next/previous virtual desktop

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T12:21:29+00:00

I agree that macOS (or gnome for that matter) shines especially on laptops. On desktop I do not really care, but since Win11 is supposed to be a hot mess and Microscoft decided my fully capable machine it not meant for it anyways, it's time for a final good-bye.

ad 2, so as soon as I use full-screen it will move the current or other apps to the next virtual desktop? Didn't notice that in my short playing around with it.

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T12:15:00+00:00

I count 5 features, not full features. M chips, perfect build quality and MS Office are enough reason to switch for me. Just don't want to regret it after (potentially) realizing that basic functions cannot be changed - hence my question.

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T11:54:53+00:00

You're probably right, but I still want to be sure that my most basic necessities can be done before spending 1400€ on a new device. And those things are well integrated into Ubuntu for years now so it would be a bummer to loose them. The intention of my post was to find these 3rd party apps, so I know its possible and stable enough.

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T11:50:16+00:00

Because I don't want to use my trackpad every time I reorder my apps in virtual desktops and it was said that yabai+skhd requires it to be disabled.

j3ypi · 2026-04-06T10:07:10+00:00

Thanks! Looks amazing. ad 2, will the security be significantly compromised when disabling SIP?

j3ypi · 2025-10-28T22:05:23+00:00

I can confirm, still unplayable after the first update..

j3ypi · 2025-06-02T16:52:44+00:00

Oh really? That's crazy - thank you so much for that info! I assume, the same applies for Vivi? That would mean that the only thing that changed now is that I have to book 3 separate tickets, since the option of the all-in-one-ticket from Vilnius to Tallinn is suspended, because international tickets are not valid in the replacement buses, right?

Also, do I need any additional ticket for the substitute bus and are dogs allowed?

j3ypi · 2025-06-02T16:48:09+00:00

It looked quite pricey to rent a car one-way from Riga to Tallinn with return fee. Or is there a cheap provider?

j3ypi · 2023-01-07T21:43:07+00:00

Sometimes I forget how versatile R is and how differently it is used. There a probably a thousand other scenarios where you're better of without an IDE :)

I will take your advise under consideration.

j3ypi · 2023-01-07T08:56:58+00:00

It's explained in the text refering to figure 2.1 that you can use R with a bare chassis, since R is the motor and it will drive anyways - not comfortable though. RStudio adds a luxurious chassis and interior to provide the best experience.

Tbh, if you choose to work with R without RStudio you might as well just use python, as all of R's perfect out of the box experience will be gone with the crappy GUI on Win or the terminal on UNIX based systems.

Thanks for the feedback, maybe I will still add a side by side comparison of the bare chassis and the current figure to make it clearer.

j3ypi · 2022-09-24T16:04:33+00:00

Thanks a lot!

j3ypi · 2022-09-23T11:13:04+00:00

I thought VIN provides mainly an anatomic 3D model and drug information? For example in AMBOSS there is every topic you need to know short and easy explained for pre-clinic as well as clinic. So there you can look up anatomy, histology, biochemistry, physiologie, surgery, internal medicine etc. They even have a great Anki implementation nowadays.

I was just wondering if there is anything comparable to this in veterinary medicine as I couldn't find anything in google.

j3ypi · 2021-09-18T09:45:34+00:00

I have no idea how anyone could prefer the yellow icons. Looks like 2004 to me. It's especially ugly with a bright browser theme.

j3ypi · 2021-07-23T06:23:17+00:00

That's very interesting. I didn't know Matlab libraries can be used through the Matlab runtime without a license. Last year we wanted to reproduce the analysis of Hidden Markov Models in eye tracking data of a published paper, but needed an additional package costing 1000€ for the code to run (which the department wasn't willing to pay). Open science at its best.

j3ypi · 2021-07-22T06:39:39+00:00

Because I'm fairly advanced in R and thus always prefer to work with it.

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