Funny how the main thing that keeps me away from Linux now was the main pain point over a decade ago: Adobe suite
So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
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Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#62I find the fetish for terminal-based music players a bit odd. I associate terminals with doing work , so the idea of having one whose sole purpose is playing music (presumably in the background while you do other stuff) to feel like a waste of screen real-estate and something I'm likely to accidentally pull up while trying to cycle between my other terminal windows where I'm doing stuff. I much prefer something that…
I like terminal based music players when I’m doing work exactly because the terminal already feels like work, so it doesn’t feel as much like Tidal or Bandcamp or SoundCloud are open in the background and something I could get distracted by. For keeping it out of sight, tmux or any terminal multiplexer is great at that.
Is there one that works with Soundcloud and Spotify?
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#63I read that more and more parts are soldered on the logic board in the new version, which means people have to buy new macbooks every few years anyway. I tried to upgrade my RAM and found out it's soldered in, whelp, lets see how long I can stand 8GB of RAM, haha.
With a fast SSD, I find it completely acceptable, even my old 4gb MBA was OK in performance, depends on your use case.
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#64What screen resolutions do the Librems support? Their tech specs don't actually list the resolutions, just the graphic card and size of the display. That's, honestly, one of the main things holding me to my mac: I want the retina display. That and the fact that all the PC hardware makers insist on offsetting the damned touchpad. Which, maybe it's just my preference, but I hate when they offset the damned touchpad.
Long term Mac user, currently with Macbook Pro.
It's Apple that offsets the damn touchpad. I don't want it central to the case, I want it central to the home keys (F and J) of the keyboard.
Apple centres with the case. Which is broken. There's more keys on the right side of a keyboard than the left (without a number pad), thanks to punctuation and brackets, so hands rest slightly left of case centre line.
Truth be told I'd prefer Apple fit a trackpoint, but that's never happening.
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#65I so wish the Linux community would get its act together and implement a working usable clipboard. It's the one thing I miss the most whenever I switch from Mac OS to Linux. On a Mac, you can cut/copy/paste using predictable keystrokes in any application, anywhere. And there is a single clipboard. On Linux, you have to deal with a multitude of behaviors (middle mouse button, Ctrl-C, others, and does it paste where th…
you can do that with xdotool if you want to paste the xbuffer. I suggest handling the shortcuts at the window manager level. this force ctrl-c to always do copy - even in the terminal, but nothing stty can't fix quickly - I use ctrl-x instead as it is close by.
end result, my ctrl c and ctrl v work as you would expect -- always!
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#66My 2011 Macbook has been hanging on and functioning well with some upgrades. When I do finally replace it, it will be with a linux laptop. I'm not interested in paying that ridiculous price for a computer that sacrifices functionality for aesthetics. I fully expect that there will be some trade offs in the "Just Works" category, but I've been using linux as the driver on my desktop for a while with few issues.
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#67This is most definitely selection bias, but it seems like there's something in the air at the moment with people jumping off the "mainstream tech" ship. Lots of talk of nostalgia for 90s internet culture, switching to Linux (I also switched to Linux (and Emacs!) after a decade+ on Mac), more secure/transparent tech with phones etc. More willingness to put up with "rough spots" and "less shiny" for greater access to things under-the-hood.
Is it just nostalgia? Global politics? Me hanging around other nerds who are also getting older? I dunno, but now computers seem more exciting than ever!
Ok, I gotta get back to IRC and browsing the internet on M-x eww...
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#68This is a shameless plug, but if anyone wants a nudge toward Linux (Ubuntu), coming from Mac, I have a recent write up of things things that I personally gain by using Ubuntu over Mac. https://code.mradford.com/post/ubuntu-vs-mac/
There's absolutely no need to bring retards here. Let them stay on their OSX or whatever it's called nowadays.
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#69> Recently I’ve just found myself disenchanted with Apple in a way similar to how I felt maybe twelve years earlier with Microsoft, when I switched to Linux the first time. This is exactly why I've been switching back to Linux everywhere, including laptops. Apple has done a pretty good job recreating the modern Windows experience.
I feel like I'd be much more open to Linux if I spent most of my time in emacs, but since I've spent like 8 minutes in emacs and about 14hrs in vim and have very little desire to increase either of those numbers, it only takes a small dose of Linux to re-enchant myself with Apple.
One can certainly use Linux set up in such a way as to be very similar to a Mac experience. (ElementaryOS seems to me intentionally be Mac-like, for instance. But plenty of other distros are also set up in such a way that the user doesn't have to ever open a terminal if they don't want to.)
There's no rule that you ever have to open either emacs or vim on Linux (though, personally I think you're missing out if you've only spent 8 minutes in emacs, but that's beside the point). In fact, you can just not install either emacs or vim, and thus make certain you don't ever open them by accident.
Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
#70All of that said, what's with the bright manila color theme? There are plenty of people using i3 with a particularly awesome looking setup. Now macos and windows people are going to see this manila paper theme and think, that looks like 90's crap, fuck linux. So that's great :/
> Now macos and windows people are going to see this manila paper theme and think, that looks like 90's crap, fuck linux.
It's a nice change from the typical screenshots of green text on black terminals.