I mean, yeah, there’s loads of tech nerds, but it’s the internet so there’s always going to be.

But honestly, the vast majority of the people I follow are just regular folks who like to chat about regular stuff. Like how they use Arch, btw.

I don’t really mind clickbaity headlines, but I’m getting real tired of LIVE headlines, where instead of writing a story they just do Mastodon-style live reactions, like me getting pissed and watching Eurovision.

This is kinda like a thing my wife and I do. She’ll play a game and if she loves it, she’ll ask if I want to play it too so she can watch.

I’m currently playing South of Midnight and it’s wonderful.

Yeah, that's odd. As long as an app is in fullscreen you should be able to drag it from screen to screen when Mission Control is active.

As for the double click; Finder will only maximise the height without changing its width, but all the other apps I tried filled the desktop.

I don't know why people would gripe. There's a bunch of different ways to resize windows in macOS. You can fullscreen them into their own virtual desktop, and sure, unless you drag another app alongside then no, that's not compatible with other windows at the same time. Personally, I use fullscreen for apps that I don't need to interact, or that I want to have full focus on. iTunes/Music for example, is kept to the far right of the spaces on my right hand monitor. I know where it is and it's easy to access without taking up space on the desktop.

But you can also make them fill the regular desktop by double clicking the bar at the top of the window. Or you can drag windows to various sides of the screen to resize them, the same way you can with Linux and Windows.

And yeah, there's Stage Manager too, but honestly, I've never really seen the point. Not on a Mac anyway.

I've used apps in fullscreen for as long as it's been possible, and I've honestly never found it confusing at all.

You can move them across displays. Just open Mission Control then drag it from one screen to another. Or drag it to a desktop if you want.

As for maximising; just double click the bar at the top of the window. No extra software needed.

Now that macOS supports window tiling there's a number of ways to lay out app windows. Fuck Stage Manager though. I've never been able to work out the point of it.

My 2014 Mac mini server is running Mint. All in all it's a really nice setup.

Oh, and a 2011 mini that I use to give induction presentations at work.

Unless I misunderstand, you've been able to do that since around 2011.

So he is. It's been a long day...

What's especially dumb about this is that Tom is an excellent writer. Villager is wonderful.

Christ, that's astonishing.

It's an M2 Air, so it does. Runs very well on it, in fact. But as it currently doesn't support external displays it's a little limiting. Other than that, it's a decent experience. But ultimately macOS is still somewhat more polished.

And somehow those prices won't really drop when the tarriffs are quietly removed.

I'm looking at you, energy prices.

I recently discovered that, at the beginning of Cheers, Cliff was some five years younger than I currently am, and I'm not happy about this AT ALL.

As someone who's used Apple's Pages as my primary word processor app for the past 18 years, I've spent the past 6 months or so using only LibreOffice in order to get myself to a place where I'm not reliant on Apple hardware.

And oh my fucking god, LibreOffice is dog shit in comparison. It's horrifically unwieldy, to the point that it's only marginally easier to use than Word. And Word is God's continuing punishment of all mankind for what we did to Jesus. Word is ebola tearing through an orphanage. Word is Kid Rock covering the collected works of U2.

And LibreOffice Writer is just a little better than that.

It kills me that Pages is locked to Apple hardware, because it's just so nice to use.

What I will offer from my limited experience is that the Mint install I have will begin to topple over after a few weeks if I don't run updates, whereas my Mac will soldier on without missing a beat if I miss several months of updates.

I'm gradually immersing myself in Linux until my Macbook loses macOS support, at which point I'll go full time on Asahi, having learned the ropes from Mint on my old Mac mini.

There are still some things that send me scuttling back to macOS, glad that Preview exists with its easy to operate editing and PDF viewing. But I'll learn to make that stuff second nature in Linux. Eventually.

Which one? Either would lead to remarkably different evenings.

Actually, this is radical.

They haven't yet responded, so I can only assume that they died of how much they hate you. Sorry.