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Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by 1996 »

m463 wrote: post #434
jlgaddis wrote: post #376

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> 1. I had to install "gnome-tweaks" in order to remap my CapsLock key to Control. $ cat ~/.config/autostart/map-caps-lock-to-ctrl.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.9.4 Type=Application Name=Map CAPS LOCK to CTRL Comment=Remaps the CAPS LOCK key to another CTRL key Exec=/usr/bin/setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps' OnlyShowIn=XFCE; StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false

that is very helpful. I wish there was a drop-in file that did this at the console/keymap level. It seems every distribution does it a different way. I always have to make my own keymap for loadkeys

there are several solutions that work at the device level!

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by je42 »

horsawlarway wrote: post #85
bsaul wrote: post #25

The fact that many people reading this post title (including me) look at it with sarcasm is telling on how apple scored big points with its new cpu. Keeping up with mac OS and the trackpad was already quite hard, but CPU could be the killing blow. Which could lead us in a few years to a situation where mac developers will face the same fate as ios developers : forced to buy hardware to sign their app, forced to push…

Don't buy their shit. Period. Wayland already has trackpad support that's nearly identical to macOS. Gnome with a dock is basically the same desktop experience - Pick a distro of your choice. I can honestly say I prefer my linux XPS to my work macbook, by a large margin. Plus - It doesn't spy on me. I actually own it. I can release software through channels that aren't entirely abusive. Basically - The only thing App…

it depends on your hardware, and your requirements

i have now Manjaro Linux on a HP Spectre. (Debian installer crashed .... )

- 4K support is pretty bad for a lot of games. usually some tweaking is required to get the text size - to a readable level.

- Internal Sound-card doesn't work.

- Wifi - had to switch iwd to get stable network. (had lots of packetloss with with wpa-supplicant)

- Getting the Geforce and Intel card working was a pain.

- Touch screen doesn't support reading pressure levels.

- Terminator is misses a bunch of feature that iTerm2 has.

- Last manjaro upgrade disabled the Nvidia graphics card, without warning. (had to restore a previous timeshift backup)

- external monitor doesn't work yet.

- listening to music while lock screen is on doesnt work

- fingerprint scanner doesn't work.

- have to restart bluetooth swith medium probability because it fails to connect to my airpods.

- the UI to unlock your encrypted harddisk at boottime looks also really bad. only text mode. and the text is also not very friendly.

almost all issue, i don't have on the same hardware with windows, but since i really want use linux i accepted it that the HW support is crappy.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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totony wrote: post #433
akiselev wrote: post #402

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With the exception of the X1 ultrabooks, I don't think any Thinkpad has soldered RAM. My X1 Extreme Gen1 with 64GB and a family member's P51 (or p53 dont remember) with 128 GB definitely do not. I bought the cheapest RAM tier and put in my own modules as soon as I got it. Except for ultrabooks where the sacrifice makes sense, I don't expect Thinkpads with soldered RAM to ever become standard. That's just not their ta…

I can't seem to find any that's not soldered, e.g. all the T14s AMD are soldered, so are the X13, so are the X390

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Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by nikisweeting »

brabel wrote: post #491
nikisweeting wrote: post #490

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My workflow works great for me, I have no trouble finding tabs. I have multiple windows, tab groups, and extensions like TabSorter, The Great Suspender, Alfred Tab Search, and others to manage my tabs as a queue of things I want to read / get back to. I use Pocket as well, but that's for my queue of things I've already read that I want to archive, not things I want to read in the future. I process a high volume of ta…

Because of the way browsers work, it's a bad idea to keep that many tabs open. Most browsers consider each tab as its own process, and each tab consumes lots of memory... they really don't optimise for 100s of tabs open at a time. I understand you got used to that, but really, there's no reason to keep that many tabs open.

That's only true if you don't suspend your tabs. I suspend 90% of the background tabs so they use almost no CPU and MEM while suspended. It works great on my i9 machine, I have plenty of processing power to spare, and I love being able to visually see the state of my reading queue without manually managing bookmarks.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by FireBeyond »

dfgdghdf wrote: post #193

My Linux experience has been bad, yet I would still choose it over the alternatives. I don't want to give up control over my devices or fight an endless battle against bloatware / spyware. Some of the issues: * Hibernate / suspend does not work reliably on my Thinkpad. I gave up trying to configure it. * Encrypting my drive was much more complicated to setup than on a Mac. * Trackpad does not feel nearly as good as o…

> My desktop gets confused about audio inputs when plugging things (e.g. mic) in and out

If it's any consolation my Mac Pro on Catalina insists on switching to my monitors as audio outputs upon any restart or display wake.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

e-brake wrote: post #348
nonamenoslogan wrote: post #237

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Agreed. The touchpas on Macbooks are extremely well built and functional--and they have been for years and years.

+1 Yes, there is no comparison, touchpads are way better on Mac, it's too bad that they have become such poor development machines (docker on mac is a garbage barge)

I use docker-machine on macOS with a custom kernel for SocketCAN support. I use a script for port forwarding and some files to be shared in to get ARM emulation working.

It has mostly worked out fine so far.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

vtrips wrote: post #29
DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #8

The trackpad is still a dealbreaker for me. Nothing I have tried so far comes close to the trackpad on a macbook with the sensitivity turned up to max.

I recently made the jump from a macbook to a thinkpad with linux ubuntu. For gestures - Fusuma ( https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma ) is pretty stable and feels almost entirely like a native macbook

Are you able to set up "screens" in linux like what you get with three-finger swipe on macOS?

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

driverdan wrote: post #51
DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #8

The trackpad is still a dealbreaker for me. Nothing I have tried so far comes close to the trackpad on a macbook with the sensitivity turned up to max.

Learn to use keyboard shortcuts instead. It's faster than using the trackpad and makes it much less important.

I use both. It is significantly faster and more productive for me to use the keyboard and trackpad seamlessly.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by hackerfromthefu »

bird_monster wrote: post #341
skohan wrote: post #329

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Really? Like what? I mean linux is the backbone of the internet. I think of it as extremely predictable and rock-solid. Describing it as an os where "so many things that regularly go wrong" seems like a totally foreign concept to me.

The last try, I installed Ubuntu on my desktop and checked the 'Auto Login on Start' box on setup, which broke the UI and required a CLI fix. It wasn't hard (because I'm a dev and it was easy to troubleshoot/fix), but it was more than 0 effort and a person that wasn't a dev might not be able to do it. Prior to that, I had an issue with bluetooth drivers that, IIRC, required finding a custom driver online or some C so…

Seconded your experience.

Death by a thousand paper drew a visceral response from me, it describes my experience perfectly.

I'm a developer and power user that wants to do various things beyond just browsing.

Things regularly required troubleshooting and fiddling, and for one thing that is fine, but after the 5th serious time consuming issue I get cross and around the 10th I can the migration attempt and go back to windows. Done this every three or four years for the last couple of decades.

I'm due to have another go around 2022 and fingers crossed it will work then, but I doubt it!

Linux application servers tend to be worth it though, and part of that is the use cases are usually much more limited, and on the well worn path.

Re: Moving from Macbook to Linux

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Post by neop1x »

barbacoa wrote: post #349
m1 wrote: post #314

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I went down the same route and wouldn’t change a thing. The difference really is striking. Just curious, as I’m looking to upgrade the processor that I bought - are AMD processors widely known as being better than Intel? Not trying to start an argument about which is better, I’m just genuinely curious as I have no idea as I’m not a gamer and have always gone for Intel processors.

>>Just curious, as I’m looking to upgrade the processor that I bought - are AMD processors widely known as being better than Intel? Basically AMD did a full redesign of their processors when they introduced their Ryzen CPU line. That and Intel's problems in manufacturing has resulted in AMD chips beating Intel on price, performance, and temperature. AMD's high end desktop chips literally perform better than Intel's t…

AMD also uses less socket types than Intel and it will be possible to upgrade CPUs easily in the future. This upgradability is also something what laptops don't offer nowadays, requiring users to buy a whole new laptop every time.
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