dang I have trouble wrapping my very linux centric head around this -- seems like a weird comparison
Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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I dont mind KDE and I do like Kubuntu but at work everyones on Gnome DEs so I try to have close enough environments so they dont blame KDE for all my problems when things break.
I get it. The mac dev's like to blame windows at my place.
Windows usually has some easier to setup utilities to develop on for some projects. We have Mac, Windows and mostly Linux devs. I sometimes wish I was on Windows its more predictable to me.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#613Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…
I’ve seen people use Dell XPS, but the huge bottom bezel and lack of macs touchpad threw me off. At this point, it seem like the only selling point of Apple being it’s touchpad. And even everyone knows it there doesn’t seem to be anyone catching up. I even managed to play Diablo 2 with just touchpad. I really don’t like the direction apple is heading though, starting with the pointless touchbar. I hope some day other…
The XPS is alright. Its touchpad hasn't been as big a transition as I'd feared -- although the loss of kinetic scrolling is certainly lamented.
My main issues with the XPS are:
- Only slightly quieter than a vacuum cleaner.
- Unless you want to use the fancy GPU in Linux, in which case it's louder than a vacuum cleaner and has a very short battery life. (I keep the GPU disabled)
- Camera is placed at the bottom of the bezel, which is an ideal location for observing your fingers on the keyboard, or if you give the screen a jaunty tilt, peering far up your nostrils. Serves no other purpose. I really can't fathom the process by which that camera got greenlit. I use an external clip-on camera instead.
A Mac would certainly be better. For the same amount of power and storage, it would also be 3x the price, and (in recent years) probaly less robust.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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> I use i3 and basically everything is configured via text files. Keyboard shortcuts are trivial etc. You don't need Karabiner to "rebind" because you can directly bind. This is the kind of hyperbole that Linux advocates like to throw around a lot, and it’s unfortunate, because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what people are asking for when they say things like “I wish there was a decent replacement for Ka…
> i3’s config files let you bind i3’s config. That’s not the same thing at all. That's why bspwm uses a WM independent tool for all keybindings: https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
This is also not really not something that solves the same problem as karibiner at all, afaict. This is just binding shell commands to hotkey sequences.
For bspwm, where all it’s functionality is exposed to shell commands it can very narrowly achieve something similar, but again, Karibiner’s scope of operation is all apps system-wide.
What people are wishing for when they wish for “a karibiner equivalent” isn’t a hotkey mapping app per se — there’s obviously dozens and dozens of half-baked versions of those. What people are actually wanting is a system for setting globally-consistent keybindings such that they can set it once and universally every app respects it. That would require either a system wide protocol for agreeing on keybindings no matter what wheel-reinventing UI/desktop toolkit an app was built in, or an Uber-keybindings app that knew how to write defaults to the 20 different preference files that control this stuff for different toolkits.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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The "Mouse" Systems Setting I have on screen on my up-to-date KDE right now has a slider for pointer speed with no numerical entry. There is only a small handful of other settings that quite useful (acceleration profile, invert scroll direction, and a couple other things). KDE has been working hard on usability lately.
KDE's pointer acceleration settings have never worked on X11 unfortunately.
...for you. For me they always worked, maybe not around the time of the libinput transition.
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#616Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…
I have the same Dell Windows/Ubuntu setup. In case this helps you, I found that whilst plugging in a DisplayPort monitor into the USB-C port didn't work, I could get my 4k monitor to work either by going through a USB-C Dock made by Dell, or by using an Hdmi cable.
I also managed to get a 2015 MBP second-hand quite cheaply, and although the specs are a bit weaker it is a lot more pleasant to use.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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Regarding the first point, I had to give up on using an external monitor because fonts look blurry and give me a headache after a while. The same monitor with Windows and Linux shows perfectly fine fonts. I tried all sort of incantations found on forums, and nothing works.
Apple redid font smoothing with Mojave, and now it looks like garbage on non-retina displays. Most 4K displays seem to be bigger, rather than denser, so you can't do much to fix it.
Which is why I maintain that 27" 4K is the sweet spot size and resolution wise for productivity.
I've got an LG one at home, and heading into work where I have 2 27" monitors, but only 1440p always feels like a downgrade.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#618Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…
My main machine is an iMac but I recently setup a Windows desktop machine for making music and gaming because none of the curren Apple offering fit my needs.
Even in 2019 a lot of Windows software doesn't support scaling correctly. It seems like outside of the very big and popular applications everything is a win32 app from 20 years ago.
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>It's literally a free alternative that can be installed on any computer. Practically nobody installs operating systems on their computer. The computer they bought comes with one and it never changes. The stability of Linux isn't the problem here.
Ok but even if I, hypothetically, conceded that point, all it would take to make my point is 1 piece of hardware or software that didn't work as intended. Wacom tablets, for example, do not have drivers that can be installed from Wacom. Yes, there is an Open Source project for those but most users wouldn't know or have the technical capability to install that past what's been contributed to the kernel. For technical…
From the Linux Wacom project
>Our drivers are pre-installed in many major distribution... Oftentimes, you can simply plug in your tablet and start working.
I understand it's just an example though. Yes you can sometimes buy some strange hardware that won't automatically work. This happens in Windows too, and installing a package does not require more technical capability than installing something on Windows.
>them but that's a very liberal definition of "just works", imo.
Anyone that's managing to install Linux on their computer has the knowledge necessary to make it " just work." Anybody that buys a computer with Linux on it should expect it to just work.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#620Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…
I was linux-only from 2002 to about 2009, on laptops, when I switched to Mac. I just set up a linux desktop for kicks the last couple of weeks, and it doesn't seem to me to be any better than it was a decade ago. * No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff) * T…
> modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent
Good news. There is. It's called autokey. Its a bit clunkier and crashes occasionally, but it allows you to rebind you application shortcuts.
Finding this made migrating back to linux possible for me.