Move "Applications" to left of Finder
▲ 101 r/MacOS

Move "Applications" to left of Finder

I bought a Macbook Neo some months ago and love it so far, but one thing that bothers me is I want to have all apps (and maybe mission control) at left of Finder, is there a way to achieve this?

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 1 day ago

Galaxy S25 FE, battery doesn't last

I bought this phone some months ago and I love all the features except the battery. It never lasts a day even though it has more mAh than s25. Even A and M models of Galaxy last more than a day. :( do you also have the same problem?

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 5 days ago
▲ 41 r/MacOS

Completely disable off-grid items, always, everywhere, in all windows, everything!

Hello, I switched to mac last month and something that constantly keeps me annoyed is this.

I always want items to snap to grid but for instance when I compress an item it creates like this.

Also using Clean Up button directly still keeps gap with the previous item so the only solution is to select "Clean up by - Name..".

Note that for "Show view options - Snap to Grid" is already in "Use as default" but it doesn't fix this problem.

Is there a way to make Icon View behave better and usable?

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 18 days ago
▲ 2 r/CapCut

Capcut Divides words into random letters

I added lyrics but when I use a non-ASCII letters in a long word, it separates word into letters on different lines.

When I change the horizontal length, then other captions break.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 19 days ago
▲ 1 r/MacOS

How to remove Chrome History from Spotlight?

When Chrome is open Spotlight shows Chrome web history results. In Spotlight Settings, Chrome is not even one of the options, Safari box is already unchecked. There are not options related to web.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 25 days ago
▲ 0 r/docker

Why Docker GUI is faster on Mac than on Linux/WSL?

Last month I switched my ecosystem to macOS (macbook neo)

The first thing I realized was the speed and optimization

Orbstack + Docker (mac) is much faster than Docker Desktop + Docker (also Podman Desktop + Docker/Podman)

Podman Desktop app lacks so many essential features such as system monitoring, port click to open url support etc...

I think it's because Docker Desktop has its own VM/backend engine and Orbstack is more optimized and M chips overhead time is less to start a container and disk writes are much faster. But I'm not sure.

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u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 27 days ago

Why this thing always eat all my RAM?

Recently at work I switched to macbook neo, even though it has same amount of RAM (8 GB) as my PC and my windows pc's i5 processor is superior compared to mac's phone processor, MacBook Neo works 10 times faster. How is that even possible, I use the same apps. Why does Microslop's background services is eating so much RAM or CPU all the time?

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/MacOS

Put back removed Item to its old location

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I removed an item using Preview and now Trash/Bin doesn't show option to put back the item.

As I understood, if the item is removed through an app that's not finder, it doesn't show the option. Some people said selecting all items and then right clicking on the item that i want to bring back would show the option but it doesn't.

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u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 2 months ago
▲ 28 r/MacOS

Best MS Paint Alternative on mac

I recently switched to macOS. What I am looking for is not a professional and complex editing tool like Photoshop/Gimp.

I only want a free app to be able to create empty canvas with the size that I want, being able to crop/resize the image by dragging corners, being able to drop image from file/clipboard into another image.

I tried some of these:

Preview: Cannot create an empty image canvas.
Pinta: Cannot drag and drop image (also so buggy)
Paintbrush: Resizing is so complicated and there are bugs when you drop an image and try to move it.
AppleWorks: Discontinued.
Paint X: Only 30 days free.
Freeform: For PDFs/boards, not images. You can't export as image or resize canvas.
Keynote: Right clicking to an image->Open with doesn't allow selecting Keynote.
Seashore: Buggy, discontinued, so difficult just to resize or change text size.
Seahorse: Not free.
Graphic Converter: Not free
Pixelmator: Not free
Photomator: Not free
Artrage: Not free
Acorn: Not free
Diffraction: Cannot erase things or resize easily.
Pixen: You cannot even zoom out until you see the all canvas. Zoom to 100% is the minimum, for a screenshot it's nonsense.
Mojave Paint: No predefined colors option.
Webapps/online:
Sketchpad: Pencil fills the drawn area
Kleki: No dragging corner / resize option
Paintjsorg: No dragging corner / resize option
JsPaint: Gives weird errors like it has run out of space to keep a local backup of images you edit.
Photopea: Cannot add image onto another image.
From these that I tried, only Paint X is good enough. What free app would you recommend for these basic things?

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u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/MacOS

Open CSV with MS Office without going to settings every time.

https://preview.redd.it/z2g2qzrjaz8h1.png?width=2388&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c2ee09d54fae04acbed8e4c0a0a589bb6dba637

Hello, I downloaded some csv files (I implemented the code itself so it's safe) and when I open with Apple Numbers, there is no warning and it opens it fine. But when I try to open with Excel, it gives me this warning. When I approve from privacy & security settings it's fine but then it happens the same for the other csv i downloaded.

Do i have to use Numbers, how can i fix this? (Macbook neo, tahoe 26.5.1)

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u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 2 months ago
▲ 20 r/MacOS

Multiple Window of the Same App

I’ve recently switched to macOS from a background in both Linux and Windows, and I am finding the multi-window management quite frustrating. On my previous systems, I’m used to visual indicators (a dot for each window) or clear taskbar previews (show preview when I click on minimized multiple window app) that make switching between multiple instances of the same app effortless.

On macOS, the Dock only provides a single static dot regardless of how many windows are open, and the right-click menu just lists titles without any visual context. I’m struggling to find a way to get actual previews or a clear "per-window" indicator, and I’m confused by the difference between "Minimize" (which pushes windows to the far side of the Dock) and "Hide" (which tucks the whole app away). Third finger swipe up do not show the windows when apps are minimized (by minimize button or minimize/hide shortcuts command m or command h). I found issues from many years ago suggesting using Command + Tab but as you can see from video, it does not show the second window or previews of antigravity.

Is there any way to replicate a more intuitive workflow, or do I need to rely on third-party tools to achieve what feels like basic functionality elsewhere? I’ve looked into the built-in settings, but even with "Minimize windows into application icon" enabled, I lose the ability to see those windows. If you have any recommendations for utilities that can provide visual previews on hover or a more responsive dock behavior, please let me know.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 2 months ago
▲ 33 r/kde

Best Distro with Default Dock/Top Panel that uses apt/deb

I am looking for a KDE based distro with default Dock/Top Panel/Applications View. I've been using Zorin OS (GNOME) lately and it has been really buggy (mostly because of gnome itself and its extensions but I have to use them because gnome doesn't let any customization without extensions) and I was just finding myself switching to KDE apps (and using kvantum themes, otherwise qt apps use a really old theme).

The ones I found with Default Dock/Top Panel/Applications View (similar to Mac/Gnome) are BigLinux and Garuda Linux but both of them are based on arch/pacman. I tried tuxedo os as well but it was buggy with javascript errors from the first moment.

What would you recommend? I tried kde neon but found it really difficult to use "Edit Mode" and had many problems with that.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 2 months ago

It's been 10 years and file transfer popup still lies to us.

I'm not just talking about "Oh, it's in ram so you need to wait for some seconds". Sometimes I move a 5 GB .iso file to my USB Pendrive, in 1 minute, the popup shows that it's moved. But even after 10 minutes it's actually not finished. Without terminal I can't even know if it's really finished.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/kde

Extract Option doesn't appear for zip/tar

Since Nautilus sucks in gnome, I installed dolphin, I really like it but it only shows nautilus file extract option. From Dolphin Configuration - Context Menu - Download New Services doesn't bring any popup

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 3 months ago

Do you like Flatpaks?

I always had problems with Flatpak apps. External disk access, drag-and-drop, D-Bus access… almost everything eventually turns into “install Flatseal and manually override permissions.” Sometimes even that is not enough and you end up manually mounting folders or changing permissions manually. Terminal access is awkward because instead of launching apps normally, you need to remember long flatpak run com.organization... commands and cli parameters won't work, file paths behave inconsistently and looking like file:///run/user/1000/doc/a5h42f, and apps randomly cannot access folders they obviously should. Broken desktop integration, weird filesystem isolation, after years on Linux I honestly feel like if an application already has a native .deb package, most developers do not really check whether everything fully works on the Flatpak version before releasing it. People usually criticize about dependencies being large but I don't even care if the app manage to work. Flatpak sounds great in theory, but in daily Linux usage it often creates more friction than convenience for me.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 3 months ago

I still don't understand Ubuntu doesn't have a proper drag to open an app with it

Even windows 98 had this drop feature.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/kde

After rescaling an image by right clicking an selecting a percentage the transparancy breaks. I s there a solution without using 3rd party websites?

 I use this logo for my webapp menu/dock icon. And the problem is that I don't want to resize the whole image, I want to decrease the size of the logo or somehow add a transparent margin so that on dock it's not going to look so big. So if I resize the all image without selecting an area it's working fine. But not when I select an area.

u/Proper-Lab-2500 — 3 months ago