A Linux guy buys a MacBook Pro

Historically I'd install refind/refit and install(use a Debian boot on my work laptops, but haven't been brave enough to do that on the m1's yet. So I took have been living the Mac life for a while now.

I hadn't been using Spaces much, instead kind of juggling a stack of a couple active windows on one screen. Like the author though I did decide to try out Yabai, and it's been an pretty decent tiling system for me. Every now and then it feels like an obvious should work split won't work, or like today Zoom just refuses to be tiled, but in general it's been a huge upgrade & really improved usability. It also sucked me into using multiple spaces, since there's some configs I knew I'd want to keep.

One thing worth mentioning is how wild it is to get Yabai actually fully running. It runs pretty well as a regular service, but to really be fully featured one have to disable System Integrity Protection, letting it hook itself into the Dock ia some backdoor messing around evidently. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...

It keeps feeling like the consumer world is more and more locked down, and this was one of those scary signs for me. The OS refusing to afford control, reserving it for itself seems like a trend, with no available permissioning paths even possible. Having to run a naked insecure system to get a couple management and keyboard shortcuts is wild. This feels like a bleak direction for general purpose computing.