Now, third party software, is always going to be all over the place. Stuff that was largely built on Win32 components works fine, but "modern" stylized applications rarely have strong support.
There is one major improvement you can do on Mac, at least for menus:
The problem is that they are less discoverable and you need to make and effort to get used to using them instead of point and click.
Been using this for years.
There's plenty of TUIs for the dozens of you to use.
Free and open source is important and it's perfectly fine to be critical here.
I agree that I would never pay a subscription fee for any kind of system functionality, but there is a lifetime purchase option available, so there is no grounds to critique that here. Having extra payments models available in addition to a regular purchase model does not make a product worse.
Did anyone notice the use of the mouse at the end?
Homerow is like vimium but for your entire mac.
- https://github.com/moverest/wl-kbptr
- https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster
- https://github.com/y3owk1n/neru
- https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot
- https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless
- https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd (not really maintained anymore)
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors/maintainers.
It's like vimium but for your entire mac. It hooks into the macOS accessibility APIs.
(not affiliated, just a happy user for years now)
There is an extensive list of window managers, like Sway or I3, file managers like Vifm and Ranger and browsers like Luakit.
Wayland port: https://github.com/kovetskiy/waynav
:qa!I consider myself a "keyboard power user" if this is a thing anyway, and I really dig the home row thing (Vimmer for 20+ years now), but frankly having my hands on the keyboard ALL the time throughout the day is really tiring. So, I actually like my mouse for a change of posture, the cursor that I can follow with my eyes, etc.
P.S. I have to admit, though, that I love even more the interfaces that don't require a mouse in the first place. It's a shame we stopped adding well-thought tab stops in the UI and keyboards shortcuts are just a free-for-all in the apps.
tonyrice•1h ago