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Most (married) people are spending more time with their computers than their spouses. Would you marry an ugly woman? An ugly man?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Beautiful software, looks good, is intuitive, doesn't complain and complements the user. Hence software is different from art.
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OS X is posix-compliant. It doesn't implement certain GNUisms but depending on any vendor-specific problems is going to be a pain point.
OS X is UNIX 03 certified. That's a formalism. 1) That's a nearly 15-year-old standard (03 == 2003). Windows was certified to the predecessor POSIX standard. 2) While certified, it's compliance in actuality is poor. macOS's certified status says more about flaws in the certification test suite and administrative process, and the OpenGroup's need for income, than it does about macOS. The manual page for pselect, for e…
I wish more people subscribed to this - I've banged on about this at previous jobs with little success (even though I've demonstrably caught "mistaken assumption" and other bugs through the exercise.)
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You're actually manipulating graphical data though, in that situation a GUI makes a lot of sense. Using a GUI for editing E-mail or joining a WI-FI network is silly, just like it is for most things people do with computers.
> Using a GUI for editing E-mail or joining a WI-FI network is silly, just like it is for most things people do with computers. Englebart? Sutherland? Kay? Idiots! Fifty years of academic and industrial research into Human Computer Interaction? Arrant nonsense. Let's blow it all off and do your thing. What could possibly go wrong? [0] [0] http://gandre.ws/blog/blog/2015/04/07/why-the-command-line-i...
This is great. But I can't think of a single macOS-only app I'd like to have in Linux, other than Terminal.app, Control Panel, Activity Monitor, etc. Everything else I use already runs in Linux.
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And that is related to which part of my post, because I do not see the connection? I didn't mention Windows. And good luck with wrestling with Windows doing UNIX things. It had it, but it was not comparable to Linux and BSDs. Now it is better situation, much better, but still I would rather spin some BSD based system in VM, than try and use Ubuntu through WSL.
My Ubuntu VM hasn't been spun up since I started using WSL. I've encountered a few bugs with WSL but it works amazingly well even for GUI apps.
So I'm wondering how much of the software requires 'Linux' per se or rather just relies on a GNUserspace such as Ubuntu.
It might be an interesting test case of WSL compatibility for Canonical/MS programmers to get this working. (although wasn't MS working on some sort of iOS bridge for WP10, in the case of Darwin-based programs?)
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> The "professional" market doesn't care about visual cohesion. That isn't true at all. I spend all day in a handful of applications and good aesthetics make my day much more enjoyable.
I think the point is that many "professional" tools have their own aesthetics independent of the rest of the OS. Things like lightroom or movie editing software. For these programs OS skins are not needed.
In comparison, Mac apps will look and feel different from Linux or Windows apps, and QT and GTK+ apps will look and feel different from one another or the other two.
Switching between apps, even with heavily customized UI/UX, is consistent on a given platform, and that's what's important. Taking that away will just frustrate users and complicate things overmuch.
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> I really like Linux as a backup plan, in case Apple totally drops the ball on professionals on the Mac. Is this a joke, referencing the new MBP releases? Personally, I've been saying we're there already. I haven't bought a Mac in years. (employers keep giving them to me and I install Ubuntu on them.)
How well does that work? I love the hardware, but I'd love to run ubuntu on my MBP even more.
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> ITerm 2, I miss you so much Interesting, when I'm using Mac and I miss KDE's Konsole, which is superior IMHO. Which features are you missing from ITerm2?
The shell integrations[1] give me this: - Alert when current command finishes running. - Download files with clics - Drag-drop files to upload with scp. - The tmux integration. Being able to use the "native" split instead of tmux splits is cool. All those are important to me because I'm always ssh'd into a personal box, and they just make the whole terminal experience feel like I'm on my local machine. Then there's t…
It's kinda odd that the best terminal app is on OSX but not in linux :(. iterm is one reason I am postponing switching to linux from osx for my work laptop.