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Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by pjmlp »

ajuc wrote: post #366
pjmlp wrote: post #228

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Yet VC++ offers much better tooling, including pre-compiled headers, incremental compilation and linking, experimental support for modules, C++ friendly OS APIs, and a package manager actually written in C++.

And then you want to use that library that isn't a msvc project. Or, God forbid, you want to use clang or gcc. Or intel's whatever.

Intel is compatible with MSVC++, using binary libraries is quite common on the PC world since MS-DOS days.

Plus there are DLLs and COM libraries as well.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by joombaga »

cr0sh wrote: post #376
joombaga wrote: post #167

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It does work though. X can't be configured with 2 different DPIs at all.

Are you sure? http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ I can't say I've played around with it, but the above seems to indicate that such support is available - but that you might have issues with apps not supporting it (or reporting their DPI properly). There also might be problems with other layers above raw X (?) - but it seems like X itself does support it in some manner? I once had X supporting two mice on…

Nope! Looks like I was wrong. I was never able to get it working on Gnome without the upscale/downscale workaround suggested in your link (resulting in terribly degraded image quality), but perhaps that is the fault of Gnome/GTK. It wouldn't have occurred to me that the fault could lie in any other layer than that which controls the resolution/DPI, but I'm certainly no expert on the Linux graphical stack.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by dpark »

kurtisc wrote: post #283
dpark wrote: post #270

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No it's not. From his standpoint, the clipboard situation is broken. It's reasonable to state his viewpoint. Especially given that he's addressing a large community and not a small set of individuals, it's borderline absurd that someone would take personal offense at his statement. It's unreasonable to expect that criticisms be phrased politically to avoid stepping on oversensitive toes.

I'm not saying asking for a different clipboard situation is unreasonable, I'm saying the phrasing is rude. Telling someone or someones to get their act together is saying they're incompetent or ineffective. It's needless because most of these someones have no financial interest in winning this poster as a user but the poster phrases it as if failing to do so is failing to be competent. >It's unreasonable to expect t…

I’m saying your interpretation of “rude” is overly sensitive.

If I say “The USA needs to get its act together and fix its broken immigration system”, I don’t see this as particularly rude. By criticizing the immigration system, I’m already saying that it’s fucked up. The fact that I use the phrase “get it together” is irrelevant to both tone and content.

And again, the subject is a large group. The idea that particular individuals should take offense at such a mild blanket statement feels kind of ridiculous.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by ketralnis »

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 so wish the Linux community would get its act together and

Be the change you want to see in the world. Open source developers are volunteers scratching their own itches, working on their own time. I wish someone would come build me a house for free too, and if they did I'd be hard pressed to complain about the number of windows.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by JacobJans »

H1Supreme wrote: post #341
unfunco wrote: post #179

Anecdotal like other comments but I and a few others from my workplace have switched to Dell XPS machines and run Linux now, and it's because we're working with Docker, even with 16GB RAM and solid-state drives, the performance of Docker on MacOS is pathetic, and entirely unusable for our work. The XPS machines we have are ugly, they're flimsy, they have a grotesque carbon-fibre pattern on them, the keys leave imprin…

For folks considering the XPS, check out the Dell Inspiron 7000 range. I have the 13" version and it very much reminds me of a MacBook Pro aesthetically. Brushed aluminum chasis, dark keys (with back lighting), and an overall sleek, understated design. Nothing like the cheap, plastic Dell's I was used to seeing. And, it installed Ubuntu (mate) without a hitch. Everything worked out of the box except the font scaling.…

It seems to me there is always an "except" with Linux. Even someone, elsewhere in this thread, said the developer edition of the XPS worked flawlessly, "except..." -- and that is a laptop that comes preinstalled with Linux!

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by sysashi »

Sorry for off topic and I know it's not a complaint aggregator but 90% of the time when I reboot my mbp (2017) it does not recognize usb keyboard and mouse. That's so frustrating and my google-fu does not help me at all, resetting PRAM does however. I'm thinking about just rolling my favorite distribution on this machine. (Although not really sure how things are working now, last time I checked on my mb air 2011 everything was pretty smooth except battery life)

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by kurtisc »

dpark wrote: post #413
kurtisc wrote: post #283

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I'm not saying asking for a different clipboard situation is unreasonable, I'm saying the phrasing is rude. Telling someone or someones to get their act together is saying they're incompetent or ineffective. It's needless because most of these someones have no financial interest in winning this poster as a user but the poster phrases it as if failing to do so is failing to be competent. >It's unreasonable to expect t…

I’m saying your interpretation of “rude” is overly sensitive. If I say “The USA needs to get its act together and fix its broken immigration system”, I don’t see this as particularly rude. By criticizing the immigration system, I’m already saying that it’s fucked up. The fact that I use the phrase “get it together” is irrelevant to both tone and content. And again, the subject is a large group. The idea that particul…

If I needed something from someone or a group at work and I told them to 'get their act together' and do it, I don't think I'd get what I want. And they're paid to work with me.

People don't talk like this in real life.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by base698 »

kilburn wrote: post #290
systemtest wrote: post #212

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Thank you for solving the first issue! I switched DNS from automatic to manual. Now I do have to adjust this every time I switch networks so perhaps I should write a script that does this automatically.

If your problem is over wifi, NetworkManager (the default in Ubuntu) should let you do this automatically. Networkmanager defines a "connection" for every (stored) wifi, which you can view: nmcli connection show Now, you can set the dns servers to use when any of these connections is activated. For instance, define google's servers by: nmcli conn mod ipv4.dns "8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4" This will override the DNS settings (whi…

This never works for me... can't ever get it to stick, tried all kinds of ways to mod with nmcli or systemctl restart/reload network manager. Debating on just doing a cron job to rewrite resolv.conf.

Re: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

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Post by ufo »

kilburn wrote: post #307
ufo wrote: post #227

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If you pretend that the "middle mouse button" clipboard doesn't exist (it is a feature that many are not even aware of) you then using the the regular one instead is a piece of cake. In Linux, all applications use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. The exception is inside the terminal, where you need to use Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V (due Ctrl+C already having a meaning there).

I spend somewhere around 30% of the time in a terminal, and the remainder outside of it. I am a former mac user, and after a year and a half the Ctrl+Shift+C thing still drives me mad. Shortcuts are just better on the OSX side of the fence (not perfect, but way better). IMHO, global actions (copy, paste, select all, cut, undo, redo, etc.) should be mapped to one modifier (say AltGr) and local actions to another (say…

If we made Linux more similar to Mac like that then we would alienate everyone else who grew up used to Windows-style Ctrl+C shortcuts (which traces its origins back to the original Xerox PARC GUIs).

(If the terminal's Ctrl+Shift+C really bothers you, many terminal emulators allow you to rebind it to Ctrl+C)

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