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So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by shmerl »

devereaux wrote: post #155
shmerl wrote: post #139

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Handling shortcuts would be compositor specific. Unlike X, the display server part with Wayland is implemented by the compositors. Wayland itself is just the protocol. KWin for example allows setting various global shortcuts: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/keys/i... For wl-copy / wl-paste, see: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

Would you recommend a given compositor to have something close to LXDE or any other minimal window manager in xorg? I'm thinking about starting with weston and moving to sway if it doesn't do the job

Sway is probably an interesting option to try, if you want something minimalistic.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by vetinari »

joombaga wrote: post #189
vetinari wrote: post #142

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Unfortunately, the openness allows for so much flexibility, that many people end up breaking it up. Invariably, they will blame the system and not their changes. If they used the defaults, like they do in other systems, it would not happen.

In this case though LastPass is broken in Firefox on Ubuntu by default. Edit: akiselev said 1Password, not LastPass. My mistake. Interesting that I experienced this same issue with LastPass.

It turns out to be ubuntu bug:

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/90011/p1

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by willtim »

Tehchops wrote: post #163
mawburn wrote: post #97

One of the big features Macs have for me is that I can call customer service any time of day and they can work through any serious issue I have with my Mac. I've only had to call a few times, but they were able to work out some pretty serious issues quickly each time. I think the longest I was on the phone was 1.5hrs to find out that my own IT dept had screwed up Casper settings that I couldn't fix. For a work machin…

> One of the big features Macs have for me is that I can call customer service any time of day and they can work through any serious issue I have with my Mac This is something else that often gets left out in these discussions. For better or worse, Apple offers an ecosystem/platform, and the support to go along with it. Suppose you do make a Linux laptop work for your daily driver. You're still left out in the cold i…

If you buy a business-class machine like a ThinkPad, you will get a modular and repairable machine with typically 3 years on-site support as standard, in most countries. This is not true with Apple. Apple machines are essentially unrepairable in the field and even with the expensive AppleCare option, you will likely lose possession of your machine for a significant amount of time.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by stevehawk »

zrobotics wrote: post #184
InitialLastName wrote: post #149

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That doesn't "Just work" on Windows 7 or 10, though, so not sure it's a failure on the part of Linux as much as a success on the part of macOS.

How does that fail? I've never had issues with multi-monitor, and they've always been 3 different resolutions (with one rotated 90). I'm not doubting you, as my current win10 install won't let me change the default JSON association away from visual studio and I can't find anyone else with that problem. I'm just curious what fails, since I haven't encountered problems with multi-monitor since XP.

I hate running multiple monitors in Windows 10. I was running 24" + 27" BenQ monitors (same model/specs, just diff sizes) and Windows would reboot and ignore both. On my laptop I would go into the display settings and try to turn them on and just get a "Failed to save settings" message. This usually resolved itself after a reboot or two.

I honestly got so tired of it I just invested in an Alienware 34" monitor. I haven't had the problem since.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by Aloha »

atombender wrote: post #146
ad_hominem wrote: post #104

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> On a Mac, you can cut/copy/paste using predictable keystrokes in any application, anywhere Interesting, because Linux is my daily driver, and when I borrow my spouse's MacBook one of the things I get tripped up on is some programs seem to use Ctrl+C/V and other programs use Command+C/V for copying/pasting

All Mac apps use the Command (⌘) key for copy/paste. I've never encountered an app that uses Ctrl. A developer would really have to go out of their way to accomplish this in their app, since the copy/paste menus are provided by Cocoa; the keyboard shortcuts are essentially built into the OS.

Unless they're X11 apps, those use whatever they feel like.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by resca79 »

When I switched from linux to mac it was just for the hardware, at time I bought a ibook g4 the most beautifull laptop that I have had, the battery in 2006 has a duration around 9 hours of coding. Recently when I think to back to linux the only my worries is the system update and the fact that I cannot test or compile any iOS app.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by cullenking »

toyg wrote: post #18

(That color theme is... not for me.) I long for the Linux prairies of old, but I've grown fat and lazy on OSX. Linux is a youngster's game. Apple got it wrong in 2016 but there are signs that we might have passed "iPhone peak"... maybe they will be forced to pay attention again to us old farts.

Turns out that fat/lazy also applies to Linux. Meaning I used to also try to optimize the heck out of my linux install. Went back to Linux from OSX last year, and was perfectly fine adjusting my workflow to suit my new machine, rather than trying to make my machine suit my ideal workflow.

What this means is that I installed a base ubuntu system with awesomewm and just used it mostly stock. I already had awesomewm experience from 5+ years prior, but for the first month of moving back to Linux I was also perfectly happy chugging along with gnome.

What I am saying is give it a try. Only time I miss OSX now is when I need to sign a PDF.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by MrZongle2 »

vivan wrote: post #74

I attempted to move to Ubuntu on my XPS 13, but couldn't manage to get the DPI scaling to work properly. Weirdly, if I run Ubuntu in a VM under windows it scales fine. There are still too many of these small problems to justify making the move for me fully.

Preach. Currently running Ubuntu 18.04 on an XPS 15, and it's been.... interesting. Disappointing, in some respects, as having set up the system to dual-boot into Windows 10 and having seen what the hardware can accomplish, I feel as if I've had to try remarkably hard to get close to that in a Linux environment.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by ams6110 »

jwr wrote: post #48

I 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…

I like using autocutsel to manage the clipboards.

Description: Autocutsel tracks changes in the server's cutbuffer and CLIPBOARD selection. When the CLIPBOARD is changed, it updates the cutbuffer. When the cutbuffer is changed, it owns the CLIPBOARD selection. The cutbuffer and CLIPBOARD selection are always synchronized.

With this, I can highlight text (which is an implicit "copy") or use CTRL-C and paste with middle-click or CTRL-V (or in emacs, CTRL-Y) and it all works.

The only weirdness is in Google Docs, which seems to hijack CTRL-C, CTRL-V, etc. for its own handling.

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