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Going back to MacOS for my new job gave me RSI. The touchpad centric UI is painful as a power user, and the haptics somehow don't work for me.

That and the inability to stretch a desktop across two monitors. I have a T-mux hack and basically live inside vim and chrome (unfortunately can't use Firefox). I'd be better off with a Chromebook.

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  >That and the inability to stretch a desktop across two monitors.

macOS does this. ChromeOS doesn't really do it.

  > I'd be better off with a Chromebook.

Since you don't like centric trackpads and tiny keyboards, and apparently aren't open to external keyboards and mice, I have some bad news for you about Chromebooks.

Different people - different things.

As a fellow (neo)vim user - I've tried tilling managers (both on macOS and linux) and figured out I don't neen them. I love vim-like navigation in web browser but for everything else I'd rather use mouse (I barely use macbook without an external monitor)

MacOS supports mice, trackballs, tablets, and has good keyboard shortcut and focus traversal. The trackpad ballistics are industry leading too. What happened that you didn't like?

not sure what you mean by stretching a desktop across multiple monitors, but i’m pretty sure this is a pref you can set in macOS. Also, no need to use a touchpad if you don’t want.

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