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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by nmlt »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #275
nmlt wrote: post #256

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Yeah, I am wondering about that too. Finder can rename multiple files and has a goto folder option. Edit: I couldn't find a goto option in Nautilus. I don't know how I missed batch rename in Nautilus... Still, if Nautilus has any advanced features, they're well hidden.

Selecting multiple files and pressing F2 or "Rename Files…" under the context menu is about as intuitive for renaming multiple files as I can possibly imagine.

You're right. I don't know how I missed that. Maybe it was dolphin or some other file manager...

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by pjmlp »

beckman466 wrote: post #277
pjmlp wrote: post #241

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Even when bought with support, it might come with surprises. I got the Asus 1215B with Linux, then Ubuntu decided to replace the perfectly working wlan driver with a FOSS one, except it took half an year to reach parity with the proprietary one. Likewise, they decided to replace AMD driver with the open source one, goodbye OpenGL 4.1 now it doesn't do more than OpenGL 3.3, and hardware video decoding is still not a t…

I get your frustrations, yet your problem is with proprietary software and proprietary drivers. I’m sure there’s a way for you to go back to using the old drivers if you’re set on using the latest capabilities of your hardware (without it being FOSS). You don’t have to be the guinea pig, let others do it if it’s not your thing (many programmers do seem to enjoy it, and see it as a challenge).

There is no way, because the only way to make it work is to dig out a pre-historic kernel from the same year Asus released 1215B with Linux support.

Proprietary software for 1215B, e.g. Windows, is working just fine with Windows 10, even though it was originally released with Windows 7.

So we are talking about Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and several Windows 10 releases, all supporting the original Windows 7 drivers for Asus 1215B.

I have been a Linux guinea pig since Slackware 2.0 came on Linux Unleashed book, eventually one gets tired of the Linux Desktop meme.

Linux was anyway just the way I got cheap UNIX clone at home during my degree, professionally I have spent more years using commercial UNIXes.

Nowadays any POSIX clone will do the job, or as alternative we stuck the Linux kernel into a VM.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by pimeys »

xrisk wrote: post #235
Rapzid wrote: post #170

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"brew upgrade" caused no end of troubles. Let's just upgrade everything to the next major version(MySQL 5.6 -> 5.7). Tests failing.

Why would you run brew upgrade if you don't want to upgrade packages? I don't understand.

You'd expect MySQL 5.6.8 to upgrade to 5.6.12, not to 5.7...

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by franga2000 »

thn-gap wrote: post #226
pfranz wrote: post #218

I'm sure Gimp has its fans, but do people just not know about Krita? I'm not saying it's as fast/easy at small changes in Preview, but it's cross platform and mostly a drop-in for people who are familiar with Photoshop. I know people who use it on non-Linux platforms and chose it on its own merits, not giving any excuses because it's Open Source or ported from Linux--they probably don't even know.

I've been using Krita for some time as a replacement of GIMP. However, I still don't understand how these programs are rather powerful and complete, and yet the text tool sucks in all of them.

Gimp's text tool was quite nice last time I checked. Krita's on the other hand is just horrible...

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by arcturus17 »

carlesfe wrote: post #246
herpderperator wrote: post #234

> Yes, the apps I missed the most from the Mac were Mail.app, Calendar.app, and Preview.app. > I am an extreme power user Do those statements really go together? I'm not trying to stir anything; genuinely curious.

The article is built specifically around the irony of that contradiction

I can't tell what the contradiction is.

I am a Mac user but I largely use the Google suite web apps, which I guess is the polar opposite of being a "power user".

What's contradictory however about someone using Mail or Calendar and being a power user? Is there a world of productivity apps that are much better designed than those? Or is anything below "I do everything in emacs" not a power user?

Saludos.

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Post by rbanffy »

vetinari wrote: post #267
rbanffy wrote: post #220

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> I would however complain that the default terminal on macOS is really not very good and I always install iTerm2... Apple’s terminal is one of the very few that passes the VT torture test and has support for double width and height attributes. Sadly, it doesn’t do overlines and doesn’t italicise my terminal font.

And it still cannot display powerline characters correctly.

I think it depends on a font supporting them correctly. I’m using a zsh prompt that uses them and it seems normal. Check https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font and let me know if it helps. I was thinking of adding the powerline symbols to the test renderings.

Re: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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Post by nmlt »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #286
fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #271

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I agree, I’ve always found the Finder extremely usable, especially once you’ve taken a couple minutes to browse the menus and learn the Keyboard Shortcuts. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that people don’t seem to bother to look at the menus anymore: one of the first things I’ve always done with a new application (ever since Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 90) is open the menus and skim the menu items to figure out th…

The feature I miss most on Linux is hitting space to get a preview of any file.

Nautilus has sushi. It's not as good as Preview in MacOS but at least works similarily.

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Post by Hamuko »

Veen wrote: post #153
anaganisk wrote: post #133

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Ah the next stop would be outrage by Magnet folks, writing a blogpost on how Apple stole their app features and sent them out of business.

It’s a risk every Mac and iOS developer takes and is aware of. Sherlocking has been a thing for decades.

It's not even a software development exclusive problem. You might create a product, sell it on Amazon and then notice Amazon sell its own AmazonBasics version of it after a while.
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