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[theREALdotnet]

The first issue on the Mac is that display scaling options are much more limited on the Mac - things are either too big or too small. Its hard to get things just right.

In Settings > Display, right-click on one of the display size thumbnails and select "Show List", then turn on "Show all resolutions". This will give you more to choose from, depending on your display capabilities.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Version-2 new release (Windows, Linux)

 

[BYTEME]

In Settings > Display, right-click on one of the display size thumbnails and select "Show List", then turn on "Show all resolutions". This will give you more to choose from, depending on your display capabilities.

Thanks for the tip - but I already tried that. Apple doesn't seem to do 'fractional' scaling, so the option for my generic 1080 HD TV is basically doubling the size by selecting 1024 x 576 HiDPI resolution in the Display control panel. That's too big. Ideally, I'd prefer the equivalent to Window's 125-150% which looks just right on my current box.

The other PITA is that somehow the Ublock Origin adblocker is still working for me to prevent ads in my Amazon Prime video streaming - and that particular extension only works in Edge (Safari get Ublock 'Lite' that doesn't seem to work for that). [Side Rant - I pay for Prime and STILL get ads??? Bah!] Unfortunately, while Edge works very well in MacOs, it's very difficult to have a nice shortcut to Prime, Hulu, Netflix etc on the desktop and have Edge open automatically in full screen view mode. Safari does that fine and remembers full screen mode if I maximize the screen then quit. Non-Apple apps like Edge have issues with that feature and re-open in regular windowed mode so I need to maximize the app every single time (no doubt some rivalry thing). So I have to choose between viewing ads or an easy 1 click desktop experience.

I'm going to start joining a few Apple forums to get help transitioning from Windows and see how things go.

 

[theREALdotnet]

Thanks for the tip - but I already tried that. Apple doesn't seem to do 'fractional' scaling, so the option for my generic 1080 HD TV is basically doubling the size by selecting 1024 x 576 HiDPI resolution in the Display control panel. That's too big. Ideally, I'd prefer the equivalent to Window's 125-150% which looks just right on my current box.

In that case you could give SwitchResX a try, even the free tier offers many different resolutions.

 

[Berwhale]

I have Linux on my laptop, it just works. My wife has Linux on her laptop, it just works.

I run Windows & Linux in a dual boot configuration on two PCs and it just works.

I use Linux quite a bit for audio testing - it just works. I also use Linux (headless) for 3 of my audio streamers.

I have a Linux NAS.

It all just works, and is nothing like it was 10 or more years ago.

Have you even tried a recent distribution like Linux Mint or Debian?

P.S. I'm not a Linux zealot, but I am a sysadmin with some 30 years experience - but there was a time that even I had issues with some distributions and in particular software dependencies (e.g. one app depending on another, which depended on another etc....).

I also have over 30 years experience in the IT industry. I recently built a decently spec'd mini PC to run Ubuntu Linux desktop in parallel with my main Windows 11 desktop. I decided to start looking at Linux music player apps tonight and installed Clementine from the snap store. In order to get Clementine to see the music library on my Synology NAS (shared as SMB/CIFS) I had to drop to the command line and...

1. Install cifs-utils package.
2. Create a folder for the mount point.
3. Create and edit a credentials file.
4. Edit /etc/fstab to add the mount command.
5. Mount the share.
6. Allow the Clementine snap package to access removeable media.

I understand all the reasons I had to do these things and I'm not having a go at Linux (I have just spent some cash to give it a proper go as a desktop OS) but it still seems a bit far from user friendly to me.

I should add that I run two Synology NAS (with a fair bit of command line customization) and two ubuntu server VMs (running on a Proxmox VE host) for all of my containerized services at home. I am not unfamiliar with Linux, but I still find the desktop experience a bit weird.

On the other hand. I installed Spotify from the snap store and that worked straight away

 

[somebodyelse]

I decided to start looking at Linux music player apps tonight and installed Clementine from the snap store. In order to get Clementine to see the music library on my Synology NAS (shared as SMB/CIFS) I had to drop to the command line and...

Had to, or chose to because that was what you knew how to do already? Has there been a recent regression that stops browsing and mounting network drives through the file explorer?

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I understand all the reasons I had to do these things and I'm not having a go at Linux (I have just spent some cash to give it a proper go as a desktop OS) but it still seems a bit far from user friendly to me.

IME, most Linux desktops made mounting devices seamless along time ago. Maybe there is some non-obvious reason it didn't work as expected this time?

 

[audio_tony]

I had to drop to the command line and...

Why not use the built in package manager? No need to drop to any command line...

It would seem that Ubuntu doesn't have the Synaptic package manager (not sure why?) - maybe it has a graphical package manager of it's own?

I don't use Ubuntu (and never have) but I seem to recall it does have some kind of graphical package manager...?

In the past when I've used Windows file shares, automount has taken care of mounting shares etc., and the file manager of the window manager / desktop you are using usually has a check box to bookmark the share.

Most modern Linux systems have a /media directory where shares are typically auto mounted.

All my Linux systems use NFS and in that case I will concede things are a little more complicated, but then a typical user will usually use Samba / CIFS.

 

[Berwhale]

Had to, or chose to because that was what you knew how to do already? Has there been a recent regression that stops browsing and mounting network drives through the file explorer?

IME. most Linux desktops made mounting devices seamless along time ago. Maybe there is some non-obvious reason it didn't work as expected this time?

Yes, you are of course both correct. But the mount I'd initially done in Explorer wasn't visible in Clementine. Maybe if i'd given the snap package access to 'removable-media' (at the command line) then I could have avoided the 'wild goose chase'?

 

[Berwhale]

Why not use the built in package manager? No need to drop to any command line...

It would seem that Ubuntu doesn't have the Synaptic package manager (not sure why?) - maybe it has a graphical package manager of it's own?

I don't use Ubuntu (and never have) but I seem to recall it does have some kind of graphical package manager...?

I am keen to explore the 'out of box experience' with Ubuntu. So I am investigating the default options and trying to avoid customizing it too much at this stage.

Ubuntu comes with the App Store (AKA Snap Store). It's more like the Windows/Apple/Google Store that people will be used to from other desktop OS, phones, etc.

It looks something like this...

Users are introduced to the App Store at the end of the Ubuntu installation process and encouraged to install applications using it.

Synaptics is fine as a package manager, but it's not very user friendly. I think going to the 'app store' to find or manage applications is a far more natural thing for people who are used to using iOS, Android, MacOS and even Windows.

That said, I use UniGetUI on Windows 11 to manage packages from multiple sources (local install, Windows Store, WinGet, Chocolatey, Powershell, PIP, etc.), which a bit more like Synaptic...

Anyway, i've gone way OT. I should should probably put all this in one of the other Linux/Windows debate threads!

 

[dualazmak]

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