I used to use WindowMaker as my windowmanager, there was a setting which had the comment “this is annoying”, which unless used, wm context menus may be rendered off screen, which is really fucking annoying. I was disrohopping a lot at the time, so it was always “install windowmaker, turn on ‘annoying’ setting”
“Natural scrolling” or whatever it’s called with track pads on laptops where the scroll goes the opposite way your fingers are moving. I don’t know why that’s the default, it makes no sense.
Hm? I really prefer it, it’s the same scrolling as on phones.
On Mac you need a program to make your trackpad and scroll wheel scroll differently from each other.
I mean, it’s a Mac. Is there anything you don’t need dozens of extra tools for?
I’ve used Windows, Mac, and Linux and I can confidently say they all have strange shortcomings in unique ways. I think people who primarily use one or two of them get blind to things like that with the ones they’re familiar with so problems like that in other ones really stick out.
IMO the big difference is that tools for basic functionality (like trackpad/mouse scrolling, as you mentioned) usually cost something on Mac. I’m not against people earning money with their software, but there are so many small annoyances in MacOS that you need separate tools to fix, and you have to hope that the authors keep updating them.
Scroll Reverser and Rectangle are the two I use and both are free. I’ve been using them with success since about 2019. I don’t know how needed rectangle is any longer.
Edit: This is meant to be a reply to the scroll wheel thread, I hit the button on the wrong one and am just gonna leave it here
On a phone you’re actually touching the page and physically moving the page around (not really of course but that’s the action it’s mimicking)
A scroll wheel is a button-based command, specifically I think it’s literal origin was a different physical space for PgDwn and PgUp
I can get why people like natural scrolling, sorta, because I invert my axis in some games, but only if they used laptops a lot at some point, as those bridge the gap
Yeah, it makes perfect sense on phones. But for whatever reason the disconnect between the trackpad and laptop screen really screws with my brain. It’s like if you tried to drag the scrollbar and it went in the opposite direction you’re dragging it.
For me it’s the opposite, non-natural scrolling feels wrong and unintuitive.
I think the preference difference might have something to do with being used to scroll wheels or not. I personally grew up using mice with scroll wheels before I got my first touch screen device (iPod touch) so when trackpads started supporting multi-touch scroll I was already used to scrolling my fingers down to move down in the content.
I don’t think that’s it, since I also grew up with normal computer mice - my first phone-type touch screen device was probably around 12/13, at which point I already had lots of desktop usage.
Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.
And hidden files
By installing Linux, right?
Right?
If only my job allowed that.
Haha, yes, that’s my plan!
Same in macOS. Stop hiding “.app”!
Turn off touchscreen beep on the car infotainment screen.
Disabling the absurdity of 12-hour clock with am/pm, which bizarrely often is the default for no rational reason whatsoever.
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Many countries including the US use 12 hour time for everything, so it’s easier for a lot of people to not have to constantly translate. So it makes sense to be the default in those countries. And yes, I think 24hr should be standard everywhere, but it’s not. I also think it’s insane not to use SI units, but oh well. (I think we should use decimal time as well, but that’s never going to happen because we’d need to redefine so many units.)
As someone who lives in the US and has used 24 hour time for a long while, it’s not a problem. The translation is trivial when you realize that time is meaningless when you are going to die of black lung in the coal mines or possibly in a concentration camp.
Same. 24 hour format helps reduce confusion.
I do the opposite: 12h clock despite being european. 24hr clock has never been intuitive to me. When I see 17:34 I need to take a solid 5 seconds every time to convert that in my head into the actual time. 5:34pm is clear because it says the time right there. My only issue with 12hr clock is remembering wether 12pm is at noon or at midnight.
- disable auto-rotate
- enable dark mode
- increase keyboard repeat rate
- decrease keyboard repeat delay time
- increase mouse/trackpad sensitivity
- decrease idle to suspend time
The list is huge but those are the main things I do not need to install anything to change. They are important to me because I hate slow navigation.
Disable the “tap to click” function on laptop touchpads.
Volume goes waaaay down immediately. Then if it has motion blur, that goes all the way away from me.
Disable or delete mobile advertising ID.
What’s that?
On older android devices, I immediately enable developer mode so I can enable “force GPU rendering”. You’d be surprised how much of a difference it can make when games are unoptimized and don’t use the GPU to render anything. For some reason, this setting was removed from newer versions of android.
Every single time I launch a new game the first thing I ALWAYS have to fix is the fuckin audio being way too goddamn loud. Why WHY does every single game have to launch with all the volume set to 100%???
I can’t remember what game it was I started played recently, but it had all the volume set to 50% on first launch and my friend and I actually like cheered from joy. That should be the norm not an exception so rare we celebrate it.
If you are a game dev please for the love of God set the default volume to at least 50%. Let the player choose to blow out their eardrums if they want later. Don’t force it on all of us. Especially if you have loud music that starts the millisecond the main menu pops up or if you have any unskippable cutscenes before you let them see the volume settings.
Enable y-axis look inversion. Because which way was “normal” and “inverted” hadn’t been standardized when I started gaming and that’s what I learned.
The motion smoothing on any modern TV
This setting is so bad and it’s the default on what feels like every TV now. I don’t know how people don’t notice it.
Roku pushed an update that doesn’t allow you to disable it. I literally don’t understand
I will be downvoted but I must stand up for my friend. I LIKE MOTION SMOOTHING!
There, I said it. I’m glad it’s a feature you can disable so everyone can be happy, but I find 30fps choppy and distracting. Maybe I play too many video games, but high frame rates are the norm on PC. Hell, frame generation is a big feature now, but that’s a topic for another day.
Why would you want your films looking like soap operas lol
Like I said, I’m sensitive to low frame rates and really notice it. Like I’m watching video that is stuttery.
I know people have a “feel” to cinema that they enjoy and I have no issue with that, but I like the feel of smooth motion. It’s something you should absolutely be able to turn off though.
GNOME interactive screenshot from default to Ctrl+shift+s
That’s all “customization” that’s needed to make GNOME work for me
Whenever I’m forced to use windows, show file extensions and show hidden files.
And everyone is going to hate this here, but turning on OneDrive. We share laptops on mobile carts hooked to essentially car batters at work. Scanners and other tools are zip ties to carts and moving everything is impractical all the time. Grabbing one that you know you’ve used recently and using the cloud storage to link your desktop/documents/picture then dropping your Downloads folder into your documents and remapping it makes it so w.e computer you have on any day will have all your shit with minimal time loss.
At many companies when doing IT I would write a script that would copy files and export favorites from Edge, Chrome, Firefox to OneDrive as well and had an import script so when I got the users to the new location /computer it could dump all their shit back where it was without having to copy a hundred employees shit to shared folders and keep up with making sure they were deleted to free up space for other users.
Windows has it’s pitfalls, but a TB of storage space for such comes in handy.
You get a folder on the local file server at my company for that.
Same lol. Especially the show file extensions. It is crazy to me that this is not on by default. Not only is it a useful feature to know at a glance what you’re looking at, it is also a security feature.
