What about power management? I've heard that elementary is not as good as MacOSX at that.
Elementary OS
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Re: Elementary OS
#62I've been looking for a replacement OS to try over macOS for a while, so I just tried this on for size. 2-year old MBP. Created a boot disk with the Elementary ISO and started up. Fairly snappy, connected over a USB 3 connection to a 500GB SSD. First thing I tried to install was Google Chrome. DEBian package. Fail. Google search for others who have tried. Found recent article, followed step-by-step. Failed. :-(
I just downloaded the official Chrome .deb and did a sudo dpkg -i foo.deb. Can't understand how that would fail, really. One thing you might try is doing an apt-get install -f, since there might be implicit dependencies depending on the build, and this forces apt to figure them out.
He tried to install an app on a live system running off of a read-only medium. :)
Re: Elementary OS
#63Kind of interesting overview, but it doesn't support XCode nor the Objective-C and Swift frameworks I care about.
Didn't they make it so swift can run on any OS now?
Also it sounds like you want the ability to develop for osx on a non-osx device. That seems counterintuitive.
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#64My mini Ask HN: After over a decade of using Mac OS X, I am considering switching to Linux for my dev laptop. The tools I worry about are those that interact with audio and webcam - Go To Meeting, Google Hangout etc. My work involves me having to teleconf with others often. Does anyone here have experience using Linux well in such scenarios. If so, what hardware are you using? Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work wel…
i've been using linux on my macbook for the past 1.5 years and now i have it on my desktop. webcam both on the mbp and my logitech hd work out of the box. sleep on closing lid also works quite well -- and i feel waking it up is faster.
Using Deb on a macbook 4,1 from 2008. Camera doesn't work though. What year is your mackbook? I configured this one last week for a friend who had it laying around in the closet for years with a locked password and no particular interest in Macs. I convinced them to nix the MacOS and try Linux, arguing it would perform more efficiently, and compared to the MacOS version previously installed, it very much does. And tell me; did you reformat the drive, or just add a partition? I used gdisks and GPT partitioning and eventually wangled it, though not without a little trouble.
Re: Elementary OS
#65What about power management? I've heard that elementary is not as good as MacOSX at that.
That depends on hardware (and amount of proprietary firmwares) really. On newer Macs where a lot of things are non-standard and controlled via EFI, it's going to be tough - same as BootCamp where Apple doesn't provide drivers for powersaving.
On things like ThinkPads, XPS Developer Editions, etc. the battery is rather comparable to their Windows counterparts for most cases.
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#66Loading this page with JS disabled, all the images are blurred. Loading it with JS, there's a fancy fade-in animation on the images. What is the point of this? Why would you intentionally distort the images for people who browse with JS disabled?
It's a simple approach to lazy loading, so that you only download the images you actually want to view on a phone as you scroll to them. (I also pick the right kind of image depending on your display DPI, and resize them on the back-end, but that's beside the point here) I get a _lot_ of mobile visitors, and mobile bandwidth is expensive, so I'm considerate to them - folk with JavaScript disabled know how to re-enabl…
FYI I also get the blurry images in Firefox's reader mode. (I had to go back to the original to see if that was intentional when I saw the first screenshot ;-)
Re: Elementary OS
#67The Mac UI ripoff issue may not matter to you, but it does to me. It's gross and slavish, like using a KIRF Chinese knockoff phone with stolen icons.
Re: Elementary OS
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a simple approach to lazy loading, so that you only download the images you actually want to view on a phone as you scroll to them. (I also pick the right kind of image depending on your display DPI, and resize them on the back-end, but that's beside the point here) I get a _lot_ of mobile visitors, and mobile bandwidth is expensive, so I'm considerate to them - folk with JavaScript disabled know how to re-enabl…
FYI I also get the blurry images in Firefox's reader mode. (I had to go back to the original to see if that was intentional when I saw the first screenshot ;-)
Yeah, well, that's actually JavaScript that (go figure) strips away all the event handlers :)
Re: Elementary OS
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Google Hangouts works fine. Sleep-on-closing-lid works fine. I use Xubuntu. I'm using a Lenovo Tablet, an ASUS laptop, and a custom-built desktop. Bluetooth is kind of a mess, on Xubuntu at least.
> Bluetooth is kind of a mess, on Xubuntu at least. (Speaking as someone who likes Xfce, and is currently switching from MacOS to Linux and is mostly settled on Xubuntu), I think that's mostly an Xfce thing. GNOME (and therefore Unity, Budgie, possibly Cinnamon and maybe MATE) handle it better.
I can confirm that Bluetooth can be a bit buggy using MATE DE/WM on Debian. Mostly I've used it for headphones, which require an unreasonable amount of resyncing. But there are multiple possible reasons for this – reasons I haven't discovered.
Re: Elementary OS
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP here. It does not add anything that I wanted, and I had already ditched XFCE in favor of LXDE in the past. The point of the post was not to get Elementary running on a Chromebook, it was to see if I, coming from a Mac, could use it on a future desktop without issues and the usual ugly UIs Linux DEs have.
Go to Reddit.com/r/unixporn, with some minor tweaking it's very easy to make Linux look nice.
Riiiight. I don't want to spend hours tweaking my desktop. It's hard enough to pick a decent wallpaper, and since I've been using X desktops since the SunOS era, believe me when I tell you that I have no interest in wrestling with multiple X toolkits to achieve the kiddie look of the day...